{"id":5895,"date":"2019-12-29T20:40:27","date_gmt":"2019-12-30T04:40:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/?p=5895"},"modified":"2019-12-29T20:40:27","modified_gmt":"2019-12-30T04:40:27","slug":"faye-gets-fired-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/blog\/2019\/12\/29\/faye-gets-fired-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Faye Gets Fired"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Never count <strong>Faye Dunaway <\/strong>out.&nbsp; I thought that her turning up at two consecutive <em>Academy Awards <\/em>would be the final sad public appearances of this one-time legendary lady.&nbsp; How wrong I was.&nbsp; It was announced that she would play <strong>Katharine Hepburn <\/strong>in <strong>Matthew Lombardo<\/strong>\u2019s <strong><em>Tea at Five<\/em><\/strong>\u2026on BROADWAY.&nbsp; I was skeptical.&nbsp; So when a pre-Broadway run was announced in my native Boston, I braced myself for the worse.&nbsp; Prior to opening night, I said in a television interview, \u201cFaye Dunaway playing a legendary film star \u2013 what could go wrong?\u201d&nbsp; My fears were well-founded.&nbsp; After the Boston run, she was fired in a most embarrassing way.&nbsp; Rather than say something like \u201ccreative differences\u201d, this was the statement: \u201cThe producers of <em>Tea at Five <\/em>announced today that they have terminated their relationship with Faye Dunaway.\u201d&nbsp; This project was doomed from the start.&nbsp; At the photo session announcing the play, Dunaway allegedly threw her luncheon salad on the floor.&nbsp; When she did occasionally show up for rehearsal, she wouldn\u2019t let anyone look at her \u2013 including the director and playwright.&nbsp; She complained if anyone wore white \u2013 \u201cbecause it distracts me\u201d.&nbsp; More distracting was the fact that she couldn\u2019t remember her lines and had to be prompted via an earpiece.&nbsp; Best of all, prior to opening night in Boston, Dunaway allegedly had staffers get on their hands and knees and scrub the floor of her dressing room!&nbsp; The more things change\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Never count Faye Dunaway out.&nbsp; I thought that her turning up at two consecutive Academy Awards would be the final sad public appearances of this one-time legendary lady.&nbsp; How wrong I was.&nbsp; It was announced that she would play Katharine Hepburn in Matthew Lombardo\u2019s Tea at Five\u2026on BROADWAY.&nbsp; I was skeptical.&nbsp; So when a pre-Broadway<\/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-5895","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\/5895","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=5895"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5895\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5896,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5895\/revisions\/5896"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5895"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5895"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5895"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}