Faye Dunaway read her accounts of her Oscar-nominated performances as the taut, sexy, neurotic femmes fatales of "Bonnie and Clyde", "Chinatown", and "Network" is to learn from an expert about the instincts, collaborations, and compromises that go into great film acting". The following year, Dunaway was awarded a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame and starred in the family comedy "Dunston Checks In", the crime thriller "The Chamber", which reunited her with her "Bonnie and Clyde" co-star Gene Hackman, and the directorial debut of actor Kevin Spacey, "Albino Alligator". Also in 1996, Dunaway returned to the stage, playing famed opera singer
Faye Dunaway famed for a scene where Dunaway and McQueen play a chess game and silently engage in heavy seduction of each other across the board. Following the completion of "The Thomas Crown Affair", Dunaway began filming Vittorio de Sica's romantic drama, "A Place for Lovers" (1968), with Marcello Mastroianni, in which she played a terminally ill American fashion designer in Venice who has a whirlwind affair with a race car driver. Although Dunaway had always wanted to avoid romances with her co-stars, she began a love affair with Mastroianni that lasted for two years. The film was an artistic disappointment and