Point things out during the movie as well as comment on it.”Īs Frank Perry’s credit pops onscreen, she asks, “This movie had a director?!” I would sit in the front row with a laser pointer and a microphone. “That’s how Paramount found out about me. I’ve been showing it to fans and commenting for 20 years now,” Lettuce said last week by phone. In commemoration, Paramount Pictures is releasing a Blu-ray of “Mommie Dearest” with a first - an audio commentary from Hedda Lettuce, the comedic drag queen whose observations, as might be expected, take “Mommie” to an entirely different dimension.Īs Hedda says by way of introduction, “I’m here to highlight the camp ferocity of this film. The still-controversial film version of adopted daughter Christina Crawford’s bestselling, eye-opening memoir of child abuse, “Mommie Dearest” is having its 40th anniversary. As will Faye Dunaway who, while best known for “Bonnie and Clyde” and “Network,” will never be forgotten for her intense performance as Crawford in “Mommie Dearest.” In Hollywood history, Joan Crawford will reign eternally as a legendary, Oscar-winning diva.
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