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As if I wasn't already entirely hot around the collar and bothered about the bits over Ryan Murphy's upcoming series Feud -- which will detail the long bitter ego battle between Bette Davis and Joan Crawford, culminating on the set of the camp masterpiece What Ever Happened to Baby Jane in 1962 -- he's gone and reached down my throat and turned his elbow upward and stuck his pointer finger right onto my most ecstatic place and cast Kathy Bates, my beloved Kathy Bates, as Joan Blondell, my beloved Joan Blondell.
Several weeks back we celebrated Blondell's birthday here on the blog and I admitted what a big fan I am of her work with Busby Berkley in his 1930s musicals - well Blondell had a very long career, working right up until her death in 1979, but more importantly to this specific tale she was Bette Davis' BFF. So I guess we'll be seeing lots of conspiratorial whispering between her and Susan Sarandon, side-eyeing Jessica Lange, et cetera, and I think my toes just broke through my shoes from curling so hard.
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