DVD Tuesday Fasten your seat belts All About Eve elevates backbiting betrayal and world-class bitchiness to an art formThere are mean girls and then there are grade-A world-class take no prisoners bitches and no one played them better than Bette Davis As All About Eves vain thin-skinned high-handed hard-drinking chain-smoking Margo Channing a veteran Broadway headliner whose star is losing its luster shes an absolute monster of the most entertaining kindThe role revitalized the 41-year-old Davis then-flagging career and she only scored it after Claudette Colbert hurt her back Davis always said she modeled Margo on the legendary hell-raiser Talullah Bankhead but she could have found plenty of inspiration closer to home Addison DeWitt George Sanders Margos nemesis is more than her match Who better than a man who called his autobiography Memoirs of a Professional Cad to play a drama critic whose barbed tongue is dipped in poison Simon Cowell is an ama
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