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Feast of Fun: Gay Talk Show

What Would Joan Crawford Say if She Were Alive Today?

Feast of Fun: Gay Talk Show

Fausto Fernós

Tv & Film, Comedy Interviews, Documentary, Society & Culture, Comedy, Tv Reviews

4.4834 Ratings

🗓️ 9 March 2021

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

No other Hollywood diva has captured the imagination of gay men quite like Joan Crawford.

Most people credit Faye Dunaway’s melodramatic portrayal in Mommie Dearest for turning Joan into a high camp icon that’s still on everyone’s mind, even though Miss Crawford died in 1977.

Today, writer John Hamilton joins us to talk about his new book Mommie Smearest, which brings the Hollywood legend back from the grave to comment on selfies, the Kardashians and the superficial nature of celebrity.

Fausto, Jesse the dog and Marc enjoy the last days of summer with author John Hamilton. Photo: Fausto Fernós.

{Best of Feast of Fun, originally posted as FOF #2383 - Mommie Smearest - 08.30.16}

Plus--

➤ Celebrities’ obsession with cleanliness.

➤ Keeping up with the Kardashians might get cancelled.

➤ Is the outrageous McChicken viral video part of a marketing campaign?

➤ Reality TV Ice Truckers star Daryl Ward dies in a plane accident while scouting locations for his new series about plane wreckages.

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Transcript

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0:00.0

No other Hollywood diva has captured the imagination of gay men quite like Joan Crawford.

0:11.2

Most people credit Faye Dunaway's melodramatic portrayal in Mommy Dearest for turning Joan into a high camp icon that's still on everyone's mind, even though Miss Crawford died in

0:22.7

1977. Today, writer John Hamilton joins us to talk about his new book, Mommy Smearist,

0:29.9

which brings the Hollywood legend back from the grave to comment on selfies, the Kardashians,

0:35.0

and the superficial nature of celebrity.

0:40.5

Plus, celebrity's obsession with cleanliness.

0:43.4

Keeping up with the Kardashians might get canceled.

0:49.4

Is the outrageous viral McChicken video part of a McDonald's marketing campaign? And reality TV ice truckers star Darrell Ward dies in a plane accident while scouting locations for his new series about plane wreckages.

0:58.7

I'm Fausto Furnos.

1:00.1

I'm Mark Villian.

1:01.3

And this is Feast of Fun.

1:05.1

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1:07.5

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1:47.7

All right. set off of everything. Our guest today is writer John Hamilton, who, like many gay men, is mesmerized with a late

1:54.3

Hollywood actress Joan Crawford.

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