Word: dunaway
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...FAYE DUNAWAY Jilted Sunset Blvd. star gets $500,000 settlement from Andrew Lloyd Webber...
...know FAYE DUNAWAY can sue; we may never know whether she can sing. After ANDREW LLOYD WEBBER dropped her from his Los Angeles production of Sunset Boulevard last year, claiming the cinema star wasn't up to its ``musical demands,'' she countered by slapping him with a $6 million lawsuit. But now composer and actress are practically humming in harmony, having settled their differences for an undisclosed sum--reported to be $1.5 million. Dunaway said she was pleased they were able to ``patch up a very painful public rift,'' and Lloyd Webber lauded her as ``an extraordinary talent.'' A happy...
...star who wins her final close-up on a police blotter. Close starred in the L.A. production and won the Broadway part after Lloyd Webber reneged on a contract with Patti LuPone, the creator of the role in London; it cost him $1 million to buy LuPone out. Faye Dunaway, meanwhile, was engaged as Close's successor in L.A., only to be fired when Lloyd Webber decided her voice was not up to the part; her $6 million lawsuit is pending. Close, her mobile face and twitching hands working overtime, captures all the character's narcissistic neuroticism, and she sings...
...mystery really begins when the newspapers get hold of the story, complete with pictures, and Mrs. Mulwray comes to Gittes' office claiming never to have hired him. The fact is, this Mrs. Evelyn Mulwray, played meticulously by Faye Dunaway, has never met Jake Gittes. Someone has been set up, and Gittes puts himself back on the case. Before long, Mulwray turns up dead in the water system, having drowned somehow in a dry riverbed, and the real Mrs. Mulwray is hiding more family secrets than the fact that she didn't love her husband...
...screen chemistry between Dunaway and Beatty is achieved by both their excellent character portrayals and the cinematography. At the beginning, Bonnie pounds on the window out of sheer boredom. Her call is immediately answered with a view of Clyde, who is contemplating stealing her mother's car. When their glance meet through the window, the moment seals their fate. Quick shots of Bonnie's deft strokes as she flawlessly applies her lipstick, Clyde's cocksure grin as he displays his gun to prove his claim as a bankrobber, and the target practice, where Clyde teaches Bonnie to shoot through...