There’s no happy ending to be mined from the lives of Joan Crawford and Bette Davis. Their final days, like their embittered rivalry, was filled with anguish and dismay, and the only difference …
Feud: Bette and Joan Review: “Abandoned!”
With their boisterous, aggrandized, larger-than-life personas, both on-and-off-screen, it’s hard to find the lines between reality and fiction even within Bette Davis and Joan Crawford’s a…
Feud: Bette and Joan Review: “Hagsploitation”
There’s a thin tightrope between art and trash. Usually, what separates the two is how skillfully they can glean truth and realism in the defying act. Like What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? and F…
‘Feud: Bette and Joan’ Review: “And the Winner Is…”
For better or worse, “And the Winner Is…,” the fifth episode of FX’s Feud: Bette and Joan, is their Ryan Murphyest to date. Both written and directed by the producer and provoc…
‘Feud: Bette and Joan’ Review: “The Other Woman”
Ryan Murphy’s productions tend to be a little, well, melodramatic. That’s fair to say. They don’t merely dip their toes into dramatics; they practically relish in extremism. And when…
‘Feud: Bette and Joan’ Review: “Pilot”
Often charitably, my friends tell me that I hold an encyclopedic knowledge on film. But I have to make a confession: I know very little about Joan Crawford and Bette Davis’ “legendaryR…