{"id":2614,"date":"2017-02-27T02:59:35","date_gmt":"2017-02-27T10:59:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/?p=2614"},"modified":"2017-02-27T02:59:35","modified_gmt":"2017-02-27T10:59:35","slug":"familiar-face-in-feud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/blog\/2017\/02\/27\/familiar-face-in-feud\/","title":{"rendered":"Familiar Face in Feud"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Unless you&#8217;ve been living under a rock, you&#8217;ve already heard about <strong><em>Feud<\/em><\/strong>, <strong>Ryan Murphy<\/strong>&#8216;s six-part series about <strong>Bette Davis <\/strong>and <strong>Joan Crawford <\/strong>making <strong><em>Whatever Happened to Baby Jane<\/em><\/strong>.\u00a0 The series is based in part on the book <strong><em>The Divine Feud<\/em><\/strong> by <strong>Shaun Considine <\/strong>and a script called <strong><em>Best Actress<\/em><\/strong> written by <strong>Michael Zam <\/strong>and <strong>Jaffe Cohen<\/strong>, best known for his work as one of the <strong><em>Funny Gay Males <\/em><\/strong>comedy troupe.\u00a0 The original script was written about a decade ago and was optioned by a few people &#8211; including Ryan Murphy, who at one time hoped to make it into a film.\u00a0 One actress heavily campaigned for a part.\u00a0 And that actress is &#8211; drum roll please &#8211; <strong>Faye Dunaway<\/strong>!\u00a0 Yes, 25 years after she played Crawford in <strong><em>Mommie Dearest<\/em><\/strong>, Dunaway wanted to reprise the role.\u00a0 The obvious question is why?\u00a0 After all, she regularly credits <em>Mommie<\/em> for ruining her film career.\u00a0 And that&#8217;s why she wanted to tackle the role again &#8211; to prove that the problem wasn&#8217;t her skills as an actress.\u00a0 No, it was the fault of the script, the director, the editors, the producers, and possibly the craft service people.\u00a0 The fact that nobody seriously considered her is all the more tragic, because I bet she would have been AMAZING.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Unless you&#8217;ve been living under a rock, you&#8217;ve already heard about Feud, Ryan Murphy&#8216;s six-part series about Bette Davis and Joan Crawford making Whatever Happened to Baby Jane.\u00a0 The series is based in part on the book The Divine Feud by Shaun Considine and a script called Best Actress written by Michael Zam and Jaffe<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2614","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-breaking"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2614","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2614"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2614\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2615,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2614\/revisions\/2615"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2614"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2614"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}