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(above l.-r.) play bitter rivals Joan Crawford and Bette Davis in the upcoming FX show “Feud: Bette and Joan.” But they both agreed that on-set spats with fellow actresses are not for them. “Certainly not,” said Sarandon, at a Rainbow Room luncheon where attendees included and Changing times have made that scenario less likely than it was in Crawford and Davis’ day, she noted. “Women now understand that they also have power, so they don’t have to align themselves with men and see all women as a threat. We see women as allies.” Lange likewise has no feuds to report, but allowed that “there are certain people that you love working with and then there are other people where you think, ‘Oh f--k, I’ve got to work with so and so today.’” Lange avoided stirring up drama when we told her it’d be great if she might name an actress or two she didn’t look forward to seeing on set. “I know, wouldn’t it?” she quipped. “I will — about two days before I retire.”
Camong the nearly 5,000 women who’ve supposedly slept with TV’s Peg Bundy says that she became the Kiss frontman’s lover after waiting on him in an L.A. restaurant, and credits him with giving her an early career boost. Sagal, best known for playing a sexstarved housewife on “Married… with Children” and biker mama on “Sons of Anarchy,” recounts the tale in a new memoir, “Grace Notes,” out next month. Before she was an actress, Sagal was an aspiring singer, and at 20 she took a job as a singing waitress in a restaurant in Santa Monica, where she worked alongside Ronald Reagan’s daughter and of Oingo Boingo. One night the then little-known band Kiss came in — sans makeup — after opening a bill at the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium. Simmons flirted, she sang for him, and she took him home — “because he was quite persuasive, and I like men,” she writes. At first, she says, “I thought Gene was really weird,” But she also thought “he was cute and had a lot of confidence.” When he paid attention to Sagal,