{"id":5194,"date":"2019-07-28T15:05:48","date_gmt":"2019-07-28T22:05:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/?p=5194"},"modified":"2019-07-28T15:05:48","modified_gmt":"2019-07-28T22:05:48","slug":"faye-gets-fired","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/blog\/2019\/07\/28\/faye-gets-fired\/","title":{"rendered":"Faye Gets Fired"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cFaye Dunaway <\/strong>playing a legendary film star \u2013 what could go wrong.\u201d  <\/em><\/span>  
\n\u2013 <\/em>Billy Masters <\/strong>on The Take<\/em><\/strong> way back in April.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

If there\u2019s one thing I enjoy more than starting a column by saying I was right, it\u2019s starting a column by sharing a Fayewatch <\/em><\/strong>item.  Miss Dunaway <\/strong>will NOT be appearing as Katharine Hepburn <\/strong>on Broadway<\/em>\u2026or anywhere else, for that matter.  While I predicted this outcome months ago, I wasn\u2019t completely right.  Sure, I knew she wouldn\u2019t make it to Broadway, but I didn\u2019t predict that Faye would be FIRED.  And this makes me sad.  Not because she was good in the role \u2013 it was an ill-advised pairing from the get-go.  But from the stories that are now circulating from the limited run in Boston, the hijinx that would have engulfed an actual Broadway production would have given me fodder for endless columns.  At least we can now tell you about her unhinged behavior in Boston.<\/p>\n

It seems things were never good on the Tea at Five<\/em><\/strong> set.  At a photo session announcing the play, Dunaway reportedly threw her luncheon salad on the ground, proclaiming that since she was watching her weight, \u201cthe salad would be better on the floor than in her hand\u201d.  Sources confirm that she never learned her lines (as I reported, an earpiece had to be used onstage), she frequently cancelled or was late to rehearsals, and would not allow people \u2013 including the playwright and director \u2013 to look at her.  When she did show up, she insisted that nobody around her wear white \u201cbecause it distracts me\u201d.  You know what might have helped with that?  Learning the lines!  And, while it seems implausible, sources claim that shortly before opening night, Faye had staffers get down on their hands and knees and scrub the floor of her dressing room.  I\u2019m sure the words, \u201cNow clean up this mess!\u201d were uttered.  More believable, however, is that people working on the show would get \u201ctroubling, rambling, angry\u201d voicemails in the middle of the night.  Hmmm \u2013 this sounds familiar.  And you can hear it on BillyMasters.com<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u201cFaye Dunaway playing a legendary film star \u2013 what could go wrong.\u201d     \u2013 Billy Masters on The Take way back in April. If there\u2019s one thing I enjoy more than starting a column by saying I was right, it\u2019s starting a column by sharing a Fayewatch item.  Miss Dunaway will NOT be appearing as Katharine Hepburn on Broadway\u2026or anywhere else, for that matter.  While I predicted this<\/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-5194","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\/5194","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=5194"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5194\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5203,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5194\/revisions\/5203"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}