"…a rich and famous poet (?)"

Little Veda, Big Veda, I'd like to smack the shit out of all the Vedas.

I loved Anne Bancroft in The Turning Point; MacLaine was fantastic too, but, I don't know, I thought Bancroft was incredible in that (very dated-looking now) movie.

This does't say when it was, but about halfway down there's a photo of Crawford giving Bancroft the Oscar at the theater where Bancroft's performing "Mother Courage and Her Children."

I don't see her as stone-cold crazy and evil. She went out and found the project herself when William Morris wasn't doing anything for her; she hired the director; it was her idea to not only get her lifelong nemesis, Davis, to costar but to give her the showier role.

BD's book came out while Bette was still alive; it was released right after she suffered a stroke.

That awful haircut on Guy Pearce, that doesn't look like a '30s haircut, or from any decade.

There was one other instance of that (homage to Mommie Dearest), maybe the second episode, when Joan does the witch hazel and ice facial thing as part of her morning routine.

I guess maybe Shirley Booth wasn't as big a movie star as Young, Wyman, or Reed, but she was also an Oscar winner (for 1952's Come Back, Little Sheba) who had a TV show, Hazel, that had been on for a year or so when WEHBJ came out.

His arms grabbed my attention (when he was getting that massage); he has nice arms.

There's a YouTube video of Louella Parsons interviewing Joan Crawford (I listened to an Elizabeth Taylor one too, when she was 15, and they are the most unnatural "interviews" you'll ever hear; they sound quite scripted). Crawford's voice isn't what I'd call brassy, but it's a completely different timbre than Lange's.…

Stray observations: Susan Sarandon looks uncannily like Davis, especially in the All About Eve B&W cutaway (having those eyes helps), but—and I'm sure I'm in the minority—the voice is way off. I understand that it's an evocation not a strict impersonation, but in the scene where she tells Aldrich she's going home…

Their intimate conversation was a welcome reprieve from scheming sabotage.

Couldn't agree more. For me, the two best scenes of this episode were the ones with Judy Davis: When she has lunch with Aldrich and says, "You know who you remind me of? NOT John Ford!" (and her movements when she says, "He knew how to play the game"). And the scene at Joan Crawford's house, all of that was so…

There is, of all things, a "Lucy Show" (and dear lord, what an execrable show) episode with Joan Crawford playing herself (it's on YouTube). It's from 1968, six years past WEHBJ. In it, Lucy and Viv's car breaks down near Crawford's house; when they go to use the phone, they see Crawford in old clothes, cleaning, and…

I have just the faintest memory of her from "Here Come the Brides," the TV show from the late '60s.

I thought the ninja scene was hilarious; Hugh Skinner was amazing. Poor Harry.

He became my hero a few years ago when in an interview* he said that he was pretty sure he was the only person in…(oh, crap, what was the quote, i.e., what was his geographic point of reference) let's say New York to not have a cellphone, and that he didn't want one.

I probably could have done without seeing him taking a dump on the front porch of his house and then looking at what was on the TP. At least I could have done without seeing what was on the TP.

While wearing drum majorette accoutrements…