If Mommie Dearest fans are hoping that star Faye Dunaway might finally be ready to embrace the 1981’s film’s campy cult-classic status in her new documentary, they will be sorely disspointed ...

There may be no more iconic moment in the history of on-screen parenting than “No more wire hangers,” but actress Faye Dunaway could barely bring herself to film the scene.

'With Love, Mommie Dearest: the Making of an Unintentional Camp Classic,' Chicago Review Press, paperback $19.95, Kindle $9.99, Audiobook $15.30 www.chicagoreviewpress.com. Author A. Ashley Hoff in ...

Mommie Dearest may have only strengthened the idea of Dunaway as a volatile movie star, but it shouldn’t come to define her, either. Nor should the messier tales of behind-the-scenes scandal.