mentalist (slight return) wrote:Matt Wilson wrote:COLIN HUTTER wrote:I was always jealous that he was shagging Annette Benning.
Really? I think he shagged far better than her.
eg; Julie Christie
Someone on Wikipedia has been ever so kind to tally up his "conquests"
On Beatty's 'escapades,' Wikipedia wrote:Beatty's career as a ladies' man has been marked by a series of well-publicized romances, including Madonna, Isabelle Adjani, Candice Bergen, Leslie Caron, Julie Christie, Joan Collins, Catherine Deneuve, Janice Dickinson, Faye Dunaway, Britt Ekland, Jane Fonda, Melanie Griffith, Daryl Hannah, Goldie Hawn, Margaux Hemingway, Barbara Hershey, Bianca Jagger, Diane Keaton, Elle Macpherson, Joni Mitchell, Michelle Phillips, Gilda Radner, Diana Ross, Jessica Savitch, Diane Sawyer, Stephanie Seymour, Carly Simon (whose song "You're So Vain" is thought by many to be representing him, although Simon has never confirmed or denied this), Inger Stevens, Barbra Streisand, Liv Ullmann, Natalie Wood
Even if only half of those are true that's a hell of a tally.
Shampoo is sure a strange little comedy, isn't it? Apparently Beatty felt it was 'too frothy' and that he should've been doing more serious work, which is I suppose what lead him to do the big, important statement film '
Reds,' which I shamefully admit that I haven't seen, but notice that it's out on DVD now.
In some ways, Beatty's position in the Hollywood firmament out of all the 'major' stars (certainly ones that have got the lifetime Academy Award) is the most difficult to judge, isn't it? I suppose he cemented his position basically on a decade-and-a-half stretch, but maybe he's as significant as a wheeler-dealer. Redford was taking notes, for sure.
It's before my time but I've been told, he never came back from Karangahape Road.