Feud: when Bette Davis went to war with Joan Crawford 

Jessica Lange and Susan Sarandon will soon be seen in the Ryan Murphy TV series Feud: Bette and Joan, which tells the story of one of Hollywood\'s greatest rivalries. But what really happened?

Toblerone bars and Presidential press conferences, are definitely not what they used to be.

These days, big-name beefs often take place online: witness the recent Twitter spat between Piers Morgan and JK Rowling, for example (it was greatly enhanced by increasingly desperate interjections from Morgan’s embarrassed son, who sports a Harry Potter-themed tattoo). "Subtweets" and veiled insults are also par for the course. Everyone "knows" that Taylor Swift and Katy Perry fell out after a dispute about backing dancers, and that Swift’s Bad Blood was almost certainly written about Perry, but if you check out the history of their quarrel, you’ll find that both singers have tended to shy...

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