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On FX, a bonfire of the vain biddies

Sarandon, left, and Lange go to war on a show that takes on serious backstage drama

HOLLYWOOD HASN’T BUDGED FAR FROM ITS history. At the Oscars, performers still pantomime the same old emotional beats—giddy shock for the winners, magnanimous gravity for the losers. Industry reputations, once cemented, are nigh impossible to shake off (ask any female actor deemed “annoying”). And while the characters in FX’s new miniseries Feud: Bette and Joan dream of a

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