NY Times re-cap: Feud: Bette and Joan, episode 4 “‘And the Winner Is … (The Oscars of 1963)’”

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1. Regina Bartkoff says:

   April 3, 2017 at 9:35 am

   Sheila

   I’ve been watching everything completely out of order. Some scenes a few times, back and forth and trying to catch up. But everything I’ve seen with Crawford/Lange has completely floored me. She is so good! When she tries to come on to Jack Warner for a second, and how funny she is when she gets rejected, when she tells Davis about her abusive past (her eyes so dark with experiencing evil, and also giving us something to think about how that situation happens, unfortunately, so much in life.) Telling the woman who wants to get that script to her (sorry everyone’s names are mixed up, but that actress is wonderful too) and the way she says it, she’s not trying to be mean, or show how strong she is, she just is. Sarandon, I still think she has the tougher job, doesn’t have that inner steely strength that Davis so obviously had. She almost seems like a girl next to Lange’s complicated woman.

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   • sheila says:

     April 8, 2017 at 9:58 am

     Regina –

     I so agree with you about Lange.

     // when she tells Davis about her abusive past (her eyes so dark with experiencing evil, //

     That moment gave me the creepy-crawlies. Taking a drag from her cigarette, saying, “I led him into it.”

     SO. GOOD.

     No self-pity. She can’t afford it.

     // Sarandon, I still think she has the tougher job, doesn’t have that inner steely strength that Davis so obviously had. //

     I agree – it also seems that Ryan Murphy is just more naturally drawn to the Joan Melodrama. More and more the series is from Joan’s POV. It seems that Davis had little to no insecurities – which is why she was such an incredible actress. Feud is definitely interested in trying to look beneath that surface – see what might have been “triggered” in this feud, as it were – sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn’t – but I am still riveted by a lot of this.

     Especially individual scenes. I’m finding I remember those with much more vivid detail than the series as a whole.

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2. Jincy Willett says:

   April 3, 2017 at 2:45 pm

   I want a Keith Morrison ringtone.

   You’ve got a call….Or do you?

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   • sheila says:

     April 8, 2017 at 9:58 am

     hahahahaha

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