Mommie Dearest

When her adoptive mother Joan Crawford died in 1977, erstwhile actress/author Christina Crawford and her brother Christopher were left out of Joan Crawford's will, "for reasons which are well known to them." Industryites have suggested that it may have been this posthumous act of rejection rather ...more

One of the most difficult roles for an actor to take is that of another actor. The problems that type of role entails are exponentially greater when a movie star plays another movie star. How does someone who has become famous for having a particular persona effectively communicate some other famous person's persona? Faye Dunaway plays Joan Crawford like a woman who is not playing a public persona, but has so contorted herself in order to be famous that she has no idea who she really is. While ...more