{"id":2916,"date":"2017-07-02T21:27:27","date_gmt":"2017-07-03T04:27:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/?p=2916"},"modified":"2017-07-02T21:27:27","modified_gmt":"2017-07-03T04:27:27","slug":"de-havillands-feud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/blog\/2017\/07\/02\/de-havillands-feud\/","title":{"rendered":"De Havilland&#8217;s Feud"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>People are less forgiving when people take liberties with facts about real people.&nbsp; While most of my readers enjoyed watching&nbsp;<strong>Jessica Lange&nbsp;<\/strong>and&nbsp;<strong>Susan Sarandon&nbsp;<\/strong>battle it out in&nbsp;<strong><em>Feud<\/em><\/strong>, many questioned the veracity of several scenes.&nbsp; Dramatic license is often employed in these types of shows, but does anyone really believe&nbsp;<strong>Joan Crawford&nbsp;<\/strong>danced around wearing the&nbsp;<strong><em>Trog<\/em><\/strong>&nbsp;mask?&nbsp; Someone who certainly should know what did and didn&#8217;t happen is&nbsp;<strong>Olivia de Havilland<\/strong>.&nbsp; And, apparently, she is none too pleased with how she was portrayed and the words&nbsp;<strong>Ryan Murphy&nbsp;<\/strong>had &#8220;her&#8221; saying.&nbsp; Therefore, on the eve of her 101st birthday, she filed a lawsuit against Murphy and&nbsp;<em>FX Networks<\/em>, and it makes for some illuminating reading.&nbsp; Throughout her life &#8211; whether the subject be professional or personal &#8211; Livvy always took the high road.&nbsp; But the quasi-documentary style of&nbsp;<em>Feud<\/em>&nbsp;gives one the impression that what is being portrayed is fact and that she actually made remarks about her colleagues that she considers uncharacteristic and disparaging.&nbsp; While she is a public person and, therefore, fair game to a certain extent, it&#8217;ll be interesting to see how this plays out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>People are less forgiving when people take liberties with facts about real people.&nbsp; While most of my readers enjoyed watching&nbsp;Jessica Lange&nbsp;and&nbsp;Susan Sarandon&nbsp;battle it out in&nbsp;Feud, many questioned the veracity of several scenes.&nbsp; Dramatic license is often employed in these types of shows, but does anyone really believe&nbsp;Joan Crawford&nbsp;danced around wearing the&nbsp;Trog&nbsp;mask?&nbsp; Someone who certainly should<\/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-2916","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\/2916","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=2916"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2916\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2925,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2916\/revisions\/2925"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2916"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2916"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2916"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}