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Before being led upstairs to meet Faye Dunaway, I sit in the bar with the British director of her latest film. David Howard kindly runs me through the things I am absolutely not to ask her. Firstly, there must be no mention of Mommie Dearest, the Joan Crawford biopic credited with destroying Dunaway's career. Nor must I ask her about Andrew Lloyd Webber, who bumped her from the Los Angeles production of Sunset Boulevard in 1994; or about her adult son, who may or may not be adopted; or about the cosmetic surgery that she may or may not have undergone. Is that it? "Yes," says Howard. "I think that's the lot." He turns out to be wrong. Faye Dunaway's reputation precedes her. One of the most compelling actors of her generation and a powerful emblem of 1970s American cinema, she came to fame as a cornfed killer in Bonnie and... [read full story]
