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    Olivia de Havilland won't give up her fight with FX. Will the Supreme Court hear her case?

    by David Ng, Los Angeles Times Dec 10, 2018 6 minutes

    Olivia de Havilland was more than just angry when she learned how she was portrayed in last year's FX limited series "Feud: Bette and Joan." The Hollywood legend felt blindsided by the show.

    "Mystification and indignation," the 102-year-old star of "Gone With the Wind," "The Heiress" and other classic movies recalled feeling in a recent email interview from her home in Paris.

    "I was furious. I certainly expected that I would be consulted about the text. I never imagined that anyone would misrepresent me."

    The two-time Oscar-winning actress is refusing to back down in her year-and-a-half-long battle with FX Networks, alleging the 21st Century Fox-owned cable network never obtained her permission and defamed her in the Ryan Murphy-produced limited series.

    Despite losing her bids in a California appeals court in March and the state Supreme Court in July, the centenarian star is now petitioning the U.S. Supreme Court to consider her case. In what has shaped up to be a battle over 1st Amendment rights, De Havilland is seeking to reverse

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