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If you happen to care about the history of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (at least in its first fifty years), you'll have no shortage of reasons to read Bruce Davis' forthcoming book, The Academy and the Award. The boardroom fights—Davis, the Academy's former executive director, got access to the…

It was one of old Hollywood's greatest legends: that Bette Davis and Joan Crawford, who teamed up just once, for What Ever Happened To Baby Jane?, held such animosity for one another that they spent their lives locked in a bitter dispute of mud-slinging, sabotage and disruption. With Feud, Ryan Murphy's latest…

As a kid, Ryan Murphy was obsessed with the Academy Awards. Obsessed. And now this Sunday night the culmination of that obsession comes to life as Episode 5 of the eight-part limited FX series Feud: Bette and Joan offers up the most detailed, painstaking recreation of an Oscar show ever filmed. Feud executive producer…

David Berry, whose play The Whales Of August, about two elderly sisters living on the coast of Maine became a 1987 film vehicle for Lillian Gish and Bette Davis, died December 16 at his home in Brooklyn. He was 73. Berry, a Vietnam War veteran, also was the author of G.R. Point, a somber drama about soldiers working…

BREAKING: Walter Hill, who most recently wrapped the Sylvester Stallone-starrer Bullet To The Head, has partnered with The Aldrich Company to develop a remake of the 1962 Bette Davis-Joan Crawford classic What Ever Happened To Baby Jane? Hill will write the script and direct the film. The original was directed and…