“DON’T FUCK WITH ME FELLAS! This ain’t my first time at the rodeo,” roars Faye Dunaway in full Joan Crawford drag. She is, of course, playing the formidable Hollywood actress in one of the most famed performances of her career: a performance that was brow-raisingly wrong but simultaneously so very right. The 1981 cult classic Mommie Dearest, based on the tell-all biography written by Crawford’s adopted daughter Christina after her mother’s death, recounts the…
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