Is this the end of a career?

This is interesting. When I first read the news about the sacking, I was like..."Oh no! She's fucked up again..." But then I saw how it was playing out. To me it seems clear that by releasing an avalanche of info about bad behaviour, tossed salads (sic) and slapped faces, along with calls to Equity faux-worrying about the health of the actress, lines fed by earpiece, lateness and rambling answerphone messages, it felt very premeditated to me, like someone was trying to control the narrative in a "let's get our version out on blast and drown out any other possible versions" kind of way... On Instagram all the Mommie Dearest queens were busy hashtagging lines from the movie. Then I spied the theatre designer in an IG post half jokingly offering up the sofa from the Tea at Five set for sale. Amongst the "O poor you, so sorry for you" comments was one from a woman who had been stage manager on the production. I scrolled through her posts duiring the production dates and it was obvious that, reading between the lines, she wasn't happy. The atmosphere at work was not good. For a post about her birthday celebration the hashtag -no more wire hangers was used.
But I digress...when the tickets went on sale I kepts checking to see how they were selling. I checked again when the run was extended, expecting to see full house signs all along the way. How strange to extend the run "due to popular demand" when there are so many perfomances with barely a seat sold, I told myself. If it can't fill a provincial theatre, how the hell is it going to find an audience on Broadway?
There is also a video on IG of Faye signing autographs and talking about the Boston Red Sox...she seems at ease, charming, flirty with the fans. Not sure if it is pre or post 10th July cancellation. She looks good. Emaciated? No way!
Now Fox has just republished the Page 6 rehash of all the times FD has behaved badly. Someone has an axe to grind...and is grinding it. Could it be that there are dark forces here, exacting revenge? I do NOT condone her bad behaviour. It's naive for her to think that in the age of social media, me too/times up etc that this stuff won't create drama.

Tea at Five in the West End? Are they for real? Painful as it is to say, noone is really interested in a play about Katherine Hepburn, with or without Faye...the work itself got the poorest reviews in Boston. And let's face it, reviews of FD ranged from good to lukewarm...but the play itself sounds weak and undernourished. If it wasn't fit for Broadway in 2002, why should it be now in this age of Lion Kings and Moulin Rouge? And yeah, thanks Matthew...for throwing Faye under the bus on Facebook. Coward!
I personally think she has had a lucky escape from a weak script (even a relative of Hepburn said she would turn in her grave if she saw it...) I look forward to it bombing in the West End...the only reason it will be spoken about is because of FD's sacking.

I hope that eventually the real story will come out. Were they "trying to put the wig on her"? Or did she find the crew taking the piss and messing with her wig?
Slowly but surely, I think this will get turned on its head. Unfortunately, it will probably be added to the list of "topics Ms Dunaway does not want to discuss" in interviews...
Here's hoping that Paul Pearson from London Theatrical does not drop her, that Visceral takes place and that the world keeps spinning on its axis.

Thanks boo! Just found this somewhat scathing review of the "material"...https://artsfuse.org/185971/theater-review-tea-at-five-doesnt-deserve-faye-dunaway/ Perhaps FD was so bereft of good dramatic material onstage that she decided to create it backstage...He who laughs last laughs longest. ENJOY!

Wendy Williams discussed the drama with Faye during Hot Topics this week on her daytime talk show.  Starts at 5:45 here

You can read all about the lawsuit here, what a vile woman she is. I used to excuse her behavior for years but she truly is a disgusting humorless piece of shit.
www.courthousenews.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/dunaway.pdf

It's sad to lose Tony from the Faye fandom, BUT I have only two questions: Will Faye take the stand and testify? Will it be televised?


I've got my popcorn ready!!!!!!

Speaking of Faye's temper, I just have to ask (but not going to create a new thread for this, lol), do any of you still have the OTHER THREE infamous Faye Dunaway voicemails that leaked years ago? There were a series of four voicemails that got progressively more intense. The first in the series is on YouTube and everybody's heard it, but the other three got pulled offline apparently on whatever site hosted them all. I would love to hear those other three again. In honor of Faye losing her shit and insulting her gay assistant, my gay ass wants to relive hearing these voicemail tantrums.

She is who she is. We've always known she's a bit mad.

Yes!  It was four messages, all in a row.  It's like Faye woke up in the morning on a tear and just had to speak to this guy, left that first message that we all heard.  And then three subsequent ones.  Each message seemed to essentially cover the same sort of ground, with her really letting it be known that she had concerns and needed all of these things addressed right away.  What I can specifically remember is that she again refers to wanting Mommie Dearest footage minimized and refers to it as "a stupid cult movie" in a dismissive way and insists that they incorporate some footage of Arizona Dream.  I can remember she offers to help them get a copy of the film to use (maybe it was a rare film at the time?)  

But the reason these are so interesting, in a morbid kind of way, is you can hear Faye getting increasingly desperate and angry with each message, and wanting to hear back from him right away.  And the CRAZY part is that after leaving the first three voicemails (which I seem to recall were basically one after another based on the timestamps) and three times asking him to call her  back, the fourth voicemails ends with her suddenly working herself up into an angry frenzy and screaming into the voicemail something to the effect of, "And who do you think you are, Jack?  You don't have any say at all, and DON'T YOU CONTACT ME EVER AGAIN!" and hangs up on him after screaming.

It was wild!  I must admit, I assumed if ANY Faye fan had these, it would be you lol.  I'm sad to hear you don't, and sadder for you that you never got to hear them once.  LOL.  They are SO nuts.  Poor Faye.  They really are just as excellent as her wildest scenes in Mommie Dearest.  I can tell you it used to be the BillyMasters.com site that hosted all four voicemails but I don't see them anymore.  A few months ago, I seem to remember finding an archived page where the four voicemails were posted but the links were dead.  Probably Faye's lawyers had them removed within the last couple years or something.  Let me know if any of you know where we could find them!