By Rex Reed 12/07/11 1:41pm

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Jordan and Osnes.

Bonnie and Clyde Isn’t Theatergoers’ Big Payday, but It’s Definitely a Steal No Less

Hang on to your lids, kids. I actually liked the new Broadway musical version of Bonnie and Clyde. Didn’t love it, mind you. But the show, at the Gerald Schoenfeld Theatre, is polished, touching and tuneful, a worthy showcase for a few professional performers in leading roles who are vastly entertaining and amount to nothing short of major discoveries. In a dreary Broadway season of nothing but deadly letdowns, including an unspeakable sonic blast from the pitch-impaired and tonally challenged Patti Lupone and Mandy Patinkin as well as the dreariest second-rate production of Follies in 40 years, at least there’s something to enjoy in addition to Hugh Jackman. Read More

By Charles Taylor 7/03/06 12:00am

No More Wire Hangers! Dunaway’s Mommie Returns

When Louis B. Mayer saw Billy Wilder’s Sunset Boulevard, he exploded, “How dare this young man, Wilder, bite the hand that feeds him?” (Wilder, who was present, replied, “I am Wilder and go fuck yourself.”) As Joan Crawford in the much-ridiculed Mommie Dearest, Faye Dunaway doesn’t so much bite the hand that feeds her as Read More

By Charles Taylor 7/03/06 12:00am

No More Wire Hangers! Dunaway’s Mommie Returns

When Louis B. Mayer saw Billy Wilder’s Sunset Boulevard, he exploded, “How dare this young man, Wilder, bite the hand that feeds him?” (Wilder, who was present, replied, “I am Wilder and go fuck yourself.”) As Joan Crawford in the much-ridiculed Mommie Dearest, Faye Dunaway doesn’t so much bite the hand that feeds her Read More

By Simon Doonan 3/05/01 12:00am

If Pink is Navy Blue of India, Then What the Hell is Beige?

Beige is back, but she–colors are female, non ?–has arrived with a lot of emotional baggage and an elaborate macramé of associations from the last century. Adored and reviled, beige is not just a color; she’s an evocative, multifaceted style signifier. See: Faye Dunaway in Network , anything Halston, early Armani, late LeSportsac. The one Read More

By Rex Reed 8/09/99 12:00am

Sleeping With the Enemy … Not Safe to Go to the Theater

Sleeping With the Enemy

The Thomas Crown Affair is a cool, slick, sexy and highly enjoyable caper movie that takes your mind off the heat while providing some pretty torrid temperatures of its own. Remakes are always a bad idea, but have you seen the dated 1968 original, directed by Norman Jewison, with Steve McQueen Read More