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‘Feud: Bette & Joan’ Review: Jessica Lange & Susan Sarandon Kill In H’wood War Story

If you thought there were sharp elbows in the campaigns for this year’s Academy Awards,

shows how just rough and ruthless things once were in Hollywood. Ryan Murphy’s latest anthology series also shows stars Susan Sarandon and Jessica Lange at the top of their considerable games in performances that will almost certainly see the two competing at this year’s Emmys.

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Depicting the legendary and acidic rivalry between the pair of two-time Oscar winners and

certainly is also a bit too campy, a tad too muddled in its social commentary, and might be too inside baseball if you’re not a Hollywood historian. Despite those shortcomings, the vast talent displayed by Oscar winner Sarandon as Bette Davis and longtime Murphy collaborator and two-time Oscar winner Lange as Joan Crawford makes the eighth-episode first iteration of

 simply something to see – as was the real-life battle for Oscar glory in 1962 and the fallout.

As I say in my video review above, in a Hollywood today where sexism, ageism and divide-and-conquer are still the status quo, the battles faced more than 50 years ago by the then 54-year-old and virtually discarded Davis and the broke but still striving 58-year-old Crawford feel unfortunately poignant in 2017.

Additionally poignant and a ton of fun in 2017 is Stanley Tucci as Jack Warner. Beverly Hills pool scum in so many ways, Tucci’s shamelessly scheming, spiteful and sexist Warner is full of studio-boss power and chews up the small screen when he is on it. Classing the whole joint up — a real feat when the caliber of Sarandon and Lange are about — is a wonderfully cast Catherine Zeta-Jones as Davis’ loyal pal and fellow two-time Oscar winner Olivia de Havilland.

director Robert Aldrich, a far too underused Judy Davis as gossip columnist Hedda Hopper, Kathy Bates as a salty Joan Blondell, and

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As much as I loved these both actresses, after seeing the trailer, im left blahed, blah, blah, blah. I gues I expected too much. They dont look like them, so I have to use my imagination, no I dont want to do that. Wont see it. Looks boring in more than 3 ways

I’d say that Judy Davis would have been a more effective Crawford. Lange just doesn’t look like her at all. Pity that Faye Dunaway couldn’t do it again.

Looks much better than AHS, which is too undisicplined, unfocused and goes off the rails. Eight episodes focused on two (or three, counting Jack Warner) characters seems much more likely to succeed.

I feel as though I’m waiting forever for the premiere. I always loved Bette Davis and Joan Crawford. Both were superior actresses.

Some factual errors in this report. The host says the film “What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?” brought Bette Davis her 3rd oscar nomination…but in fact it brought her her 10th and final oscar nomination (not including her first nod, which was a write in nomination so some people don’t count it) Also, most of what’s been written about their feud is largely believed to have been an ongoing publicity stunt.

That would be a story in and of itself. And it’s own kind of fun.

I have to admit I agree with others who are distracted with how much the two stars do NOT look like the women they are portraying. Great actresses though.

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