March 26, 2017 Arts & Culture

The Enduring Power of the Catfight: A Lament

Entertaining? Maybe. Helpful? No.

What’s more fun than watching two powerful women viciously going after each other?

Two powerful women playing powerful women going after each other, of course. At the moment, we’ve got Feud: Bette and Joan on the FX network, giving us Susan Sarandon and Jessica Lange playing Davis and Crawford, who, dizzyingly enough, play a bilious pair of badly aging movie stars in Whatever Happened to Baby Jane.

catfight — Patti Lupone as Helena Rubenstein and Christine Ebersole as Elizabeth Arden in the new Broadway musical, War Paint.

Then there’s War Paint on Broadway, with Patti Lupone and Christine Ebersole as Helena Rubinstein and Elizabeth Arden. Arden on Rubinstein: “Royalty? She’s as common as a cabbage.” Rubinstein on Arden: “Pedigreed? Ha! She — what? — stepped off the Pilgrim boat in her Chanel pumps? I know the truth, Harry. She’s Canadian!”

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