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Post by nboston81 on Jan 28, 2020 3:18:03 GMT
These last few have been so great to see!! The Barfly interview is terrific. It's so fun to see her in the Casanova costume. Do you know the dates both Barfly and Casanova were filmed? Curious which came first in her career. Was Casanova filmed when she lived in England, married to Terry O'Neill and was delayed release? I seem to recall Barfly was filmed and released in 1987, with a fast turn-around of just a few months? Or am I imagining this? I feel as if you know best.
And hey -- so very exciting to see something from the very obscure Burning Secret. I have a thing for that film as one of Faye's better movies after Barfly. I'd never seen any footage or interviews during promo so it's nice to finally hear her say a few words about it and her character. I really never had seen her address it ever before (she doesn't in her book). THANK YOU AGAIN!
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Post by tlcarpenter on Jan 28, 2020 5:53:46 GMT
Thank you for the kind words, and I am so glad you are enjoying the clips. As for the timeline of Casanova and Barfly, etc. - check your 'Chronology of Faye's Movies 80s-mid 90s' thread, I just posted some info there (I didn't answer it here because I want to keep that thread going, because I too am interested in the timelines) I love Burning Secret, as well! I drove an hour three times to see it on the screen at the one theater it was playing in Houston back in late 1988/early 1989. And there's a scene missing from the VHS and DVD releases! In the theatrical version, before Edmund discovers Faye and Klaus in their makeout location, there's a scene with them seated at a table with a candle having an intense conversation. At one point Klaus holds his hand over the candle flame, shocking Faye. It's in this scene when you see Faye's character finally giving in to the thought of 'going all the way' with him again, after being thwarted before when she went to his room. Don't know why it was cut for home media. When I first rented the film on VHS I noticed the omission right away and was confused/irritated. You are in for a treat because Faye did an interview for GMA about Burning Secret, and ET went on location to Czechoslovakia and did an interview with her. EDIT: I forgot - Gloria Steinem did an interview with Faye about it on a short lived magazine show, as well!Stay tuned.... Same Faye time... Same Faye channel...
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Post by nboston81 on Jan 28, 2020 20:44:33 GMT
I'm so excited to hear there's more to come from the Burning Secret archive!! And that deleted scene sounds fascinating. Too bad it was cut. I don't suppose, by any chance, there's any interviews about Midnight Crossing huh? Do you have any recollection of that movie coming out and getting promoted back in 1988? That's my guilty pleasure of all time in Faye's career.
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Post by tlcarpenter on Jan 29, 2020 4:28:29 GMT
Wow, Midnight Crossing is one of MY guilty pleasures, also!
Midnight Crossing came out May 13, 1988 and played New York and L.A. that I know of - saw ads in the movie sections but it never came to Texas. It might have screened in Chicago and Boston as well, but have no proof.
Faye did no interviews about it - but E.T. did a brief segment on movies soon to be released, and they showed footage of them filming the Ned Beatty/Bar scene. (I hope I find that clip on one of the tapes. I know I recorded it at the time)
Daniel J. Travanti did an interview on one of the morning shows talking about how he changed his look and felt he was unrecognizable in the role (he came off rather arrogant). But didn't mention anything about Faye.
Back in the day, when every little mom and pop shop suddenly started renting videos as well as their regular merchandise, I walked into a store and they had a small 3-D cardboard stand of the movie poster. I was thrilled the movie was finally available, rented the movie and asked if I could have the stand and they gave it to me!
On one of the occasions I was at the stage door of Master Class in Houston, I was showing Faye a scrapbook I had made of her films and when she got to the Midnight Crossing page, I said to her "I really like Midnight Crossing. I just do.", and she looked at me and smiled and said "You know, I did too!"
I loved that her character Helen had the big plot twist, and the ending is one of my favorites, with Faye sailing off with hunky John Laughlin, her former lover's son!
Good times......
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Post by nboston81 on Jan 30, 2020 3:43:55 GMT
Wow! I am shook to learn that she agreed with you that she really liked that one. That's totally unexpected and I'm grinning ear to ear to read it. Thanks for that information about what you remember from the time of release. I'm so curious about this movie and love finally knowing something about Faye's thoughts on it. Did she have anything else interesting to say about things in your scrapbook she didn't like? (Did you quickly skip past the Mommie Dearest page?)
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Post by tlcarpenter on Feb 1, 2020 21:19:12 GMT
Lol, great question. Well, I had multiple scrapbooks, and they were filled with not just movies she did but every interview/picture I had found of her through the years, and that particular Scrapbook started with The Wicked Lady, so there was no awkward Mommie Dearest moment! Speaking of The Wicked Lady, that is my ALL TIME guilty pleasure of Faye's, with Midnight Crossing a close second. Do you like The Wicked Lady? She did an interview on GMA promoting it, but I was at college (Texas A&M) and didn't have my VCR with me yet. I hope someone taped it and someday it will appear on the internet. It was my inability to tape that interview that made me get my VCR next time I went home, and then a few weeks later they showed Puzzle on the late, late show and I recorded it!
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Post by nboston81 on Feb 3, 2020 23:05:39 GMT
Oh, I adore the Wicked Lady. If I consider Mommie Dearest to be the ultimate Faye pleasure/guilty pleasure, then the Wicked Lady is like the massive cherry on top, LOL. It's so spectacular, and spectacularly over-the-top, and amazing. I got into Faye around 2014 and this film was unavailable (except on VHS, bah!) and after reading some of the summaries for it, I was praying it would somehow get pulled out of whatever vault it was sitting in. Very happy it got released on Bluray not long after so I could fall in love with it. I consider MD and WL to be like the high-class, bigger budget guilty pleasures. Midnight Crossing -- along with Silhouette! -- are what I consider my totally guilty, guilty pleasures of Faye. LOL. There are things about both of those that I love but they're also undeniably kind of low-budget, quickly filmed (sometimes there are desperate needs for another take instead of the ones used in the finished film!) and they are a little cheesy. But both of them bring back a certain time period of film and television from when I was growing up that endear them to me. The only major project from Faye's "golden period" of 60s through 80s that I find it hard to even sit through watching is... "The Champ." Bah. And that's one of the only times I feel Faye gave a performance where she just doesn't seem to connect at all with it, and seems on auto-pilot or something.
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Post by tlcarpenter on Feb 4, 2020 10:43:46 GMT
the faye VHS preservation project #12
The Towering Inferno - 'Why Faye Dunaway survives' British documentary
British documentary on Hollywood and money presents a theory on who survives in Disaster Movies....and who doesn't. Great clip of the famous Scenic Elevator Scene where Jennifer Jones plunges to her death and traumatized me as a child.
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Post by tlcarpenter on Feb 10, 2020 8:48:45 GMT
the faye VHS preservation project
Faye Dunaway 1990 Regis & Kathie Lee 1st appearance
This was Faye's first appearance on the daytime talk show, and they give her the Legendary Star treatment. In the first segment, Regis holds up photos from Faye's films (including MOMMIE DEAREST) and they discuss her career. In the second segment, Faye talks about her new suspense thriller SILHOUETTE as not only the star, but also the producer. Great interview.
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Post by nboston81 on Feb 11, 2020 21:00:39 GMT
WOW! This appearance to promote Silhouette is incredible. So wonderful to see her speak about this obscure project that I love to watch on YouTube every few months. It's really something to see Faye keep a good sense of humor even when Regis is asking her if she ever wants to beat her son, Liam, with wire hangers. LOL. Nice to see her so fun and carefree and positive and looking healthy. It seemed a time in her career when she was quite optimistic, after Barfly and before she started to have all kinds of issues in that dark period with the Temp, the sitcom, Lloyd-Webber, etc. She seems so fresh and has a positive outlook about where she stands, and moving forward. I had no idea she passed on playing Frances Farmer. That's so interesting. Never heard that one mentioned before. Really cool to hear this Silhouette role was originally written for a male lead. Thanks so much for sharing this!
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Post by tlcarpenter on Feb 24, 2020 6:18:12 GMT
the faye VHS preservation project
Faye Dunaway: E! News Special Report 1995
Steve Kmetko (remember him?) introduces a report on Faye featuring her winning a Lifetime Achievement Award at the ShoWest Convention from NATO (National Association of Theater Owners) and talking about her legendary career. Faye is light and funny in this interview, and starts it off with a great dead pan joke telling interviewer Amy Powell that she is the "youngest person ever to win such an award" then cracks up laughing. Fun interview.
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Post by tlcarpenter on Mar 8, 2020 6:52:02 GMT
the faye VHS preservation project
Faye Dunaway 1995 CBS This Morning Paula Zahn Don Juan DeMarco
Faye gives an interview to Paula Zahn promoting Don Juan DeMarco and tells how she wrote Brando a letter asking for the role,. Dunaway also discusses women's roles in Hollywood and references Jessica Lange's Oscar win for Blue Sky and Susan Sarandon's nomination for The Client.
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Post by nboston81 on Mar 10, 2020 11:55:15 GMT
Wouldn't it have been cool if Faye was cast in Susan Sarandon's role in The Client? Oh to dream.
Thanks for sharing this one. Faye was always so enthusiastic about working with Brando on Don Juan Demarco. I'm not a big fan of it, but partially because Faye is featured in so few scenes. I always wondered, even though it was a supporting role to begin with, if perhaps she did film a couple additional scenes that may have gotten cut in the final edit of the film. Know anything about other scenes Faye may have filmed?
Also, and maybe it's yet to come, but did Faye do any promotion whatsoever for Arizona Dream or did that just get a quick release in America without much press? THAT was a really interesting, original movie with such a great, big part for Faye.
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Post by tlcarpenter on Mar 16, 2020 0:35:52 GMT
Haha I would have much preferred that Faye got Lange's role in Blue Sky instead of Sarandon's role in The Client (not a fan of that film). But it would have been great for her career if she had. It would also have been a reunion of Faye and Tommy Lee Jones, as well as a reunion for Faye and Jo Harvey Allen who played Effie Bell Tate so wonderfully in Cold Sassy Tree.
In the Don Juan DeMarco trailer there is a shot of Faye outside smelling a rose, that isn't in the final film, as well as a couple of lines of dialogue in a scene from the trailer that are missing from the same scene in the film. I'm sure there's more. I, too, was disappointed in DeMarco because her screen time was so limited.
Unfortunately, no promotion for Arizona Dream that I have ever seen or found in my years of searching. Total bummer because I LOVE that movie.
Thanks again for watching - more to come!
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Post by nboston81 on Apr 3, 2020 10:08:56 GMT
Hope everybody is staying healthy and safe in these crazy times! Just read that Terrence McNally, the famous playwright who wrote Master Class, died this week from coronavirus complications.
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