Ryan Murphy has another anthology series in the works at FX. It’s called Feud, and it’s about feuds, and the first season will be dedicated to the feud between Bette Davis and Joan Crawford, who will be played by Susan Sarandon and Jessica Lange, respectively.
In 1941, 33-year-old Bette Davis was appointed the first female president of the Academy of Motion Pictures. She didn’t even make it to the two-month mark before she got annoyed with the fact they didn’t really want her do anything except look pretty—and then she bailed.
Welcome to Midweek Madness, where we go to our normal magazine shop, head to the section with the tabloids, find last week’s issues, ask the man behind the counter when the new ones will be delivered, are told there’s a “printing problem” and they they won’t be delivered until tonight or tomorrow, leave feeling…
DO MY EYES DECEIVE ME? Or am I watching a very young, platinum-blonde Bette Davis extoll the virtues of a General Electric dishwasher?
The latest installment of PBS's wonderful series Blank on Blank, in which they pair old interviews with famous people with wonderful animations, is here! And it features the illustrious Bette Davis, speaking about being outspoken and intelligent in her line of business and how the experience of being a woman has…
Happy birthday to Bette Davis, who should need no introduction. But just in case, here's a short tribute narrated by Meryl Streep...and here's your open thread. Have a great weekend!
As we prepare to award various mediocre films, critic A.O. Scott draws our attention to an amazing one: Joseph L. Mankiewicz's 1950 masterpiece All About Eve, probably top 5 in the Jezebel Film Canon.
Do you have big eyes? Apparently monkeys are really into them. A recent study at the University of Bremen, Germany has found that macaque monkeys have the most brain cell attention focused on the size of the iris of different faces. The more extreme the iris size, the bigger the reaction of the brain cells. There were…
In The Independent today, Johann Hari writes, "Where have all the strong women gone?" Hari gets all nostalgic for Bette Davis: "She was not only a woman; she was an electrical storm with skin. She never pretended to be dumb, or a little girl. She didn't do soft, or simpering. She had a voice like sour cream, and eyes…
Gays with letters to mail, rejoice! Bette Davis, star of the film Jezebel (holla!) and, most famously, All About Eve and Whatever Happened To Baby Jane? is the latest American icon to be honored with a first-class postage stamp. The late actress' visage will be available for your bill-posting pleasure in 2008. [Yahoo]
