Fayewatch

Last week, a certain story caught my eye.  A mother in Nebraska bound her two sons with duct tape and forced them to watch Mommie Dearest over and over again.  I half expected the mom’s last name to be Dunaway.  Alas, it was not.  Mary Lucas claims that after her kids called her the “meanest mommie”, she wanted to show them what a real mean mother was like.  She’s been charged with felony child abuse.  Faye was only charged with overacting!

This leads perfectly into a new installment of Fayewatch.  As I previously told you, Faye has signed a deal to write a book about the making of Mommie Dearest.  The trouble is, a) she hates talking about it and b) doesn’t remember much about the filming.  She thought her memories could be jostled by Rutanya Alda, the actress who played Carol Ann in the movie.  She heard that Rutanya had kept a diary and was planning on publishing it.  Faye got in touch with her agent and asked if her former co-star would be interested in “collaborating” on the Dunaway’s book – for acknowledgement but no pay.  Rutanya declined and published her own book.  The Mommie Dearest Diary – Carol Ann Tells All is a short, breezy read with preciously little that would interest most people.  But there is a handful of dishy Dunaway dirt.  Left to her own devices, Faye was photographed in a Hollywood bookshop buying a Mommie Dearest script and Christina Crawford‘s book.  No word on when her book is coming out.

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