Warren Beatty [Actor]

[HWBL]

Originally Posted by Chalet

Hey, look at WB! Looking mighty fine.

Yeah, not bad for an old geezer, huh? Me thinks he took an extra trip to the tanning salon

Originally Posted by Chalet

Womanizer? I'm laffinnnngg...

Did Warren do any overlapping of women or did he go one by one?

I used to call my dad the Warren Beatty of his neighborhood (without the bank book). He'd walk into a party and five women would be getting him drinks. He was a serial monogamist, one by one, a little alone time and then onto the next.

I hope Warren allowed himself a little time in between to regroup.

Heehee, well, as far as I know, he really was more of a serial monogamist,
and one who ALWAYS got the bad rap in the press, who assumed him to be a
real scoundrel. They've found, unpublished, notes of Natalie Wood's memoirs
that revealed that, if it hadn't been for Beatty picking up the pieces nearly
a year after Wagner cheated on her, causing her to press for a divorce (so
completely the opposite of what made the press back then), she was very
close to committing suicide! She referred to him as her life saver, that he
restored her emotionally.
Still, the press made him out to be the one who stole her from Wagner, go figure.

Anyways, here's a number of pix of our mutual Mr. Hotness with various
other celebs. With his sister, a few of his (ex) love interests, some of his
real life close friends, a few co-stars and the rest of them just variations
on the theme "celeb".

[Reptillycus]

HWBL you are a theatrical historian. I bow down to you for your passion and focus and willingness to share.

[HWBL]

Originally Posted by Reptillycus

HWBL you are a theatrical historian. I bow down to you for your passion and focus and willingness to share.

Wow. Well, shucks, what can I say? You're too kind. I think you're a minority on this board. Most other members/lurkers are probably getting extremely sick of my Warren Beatty posts. I'm simply addicted to the man
I feel he's terribly underrated as an actor and misjudged as a person.
Anyway, thanks again. Glad you appreciate the effort.

RED alert for Chalet! (get the pun? hehe )

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060928/film_nm/reds_dc_1

Beatty film gets "Reds" carpet for DVD debut

By Thomas K. Arnold
Wed Sep 27, 10:45 PM ET

LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - Just in time for its 25th anniversary, Warren Beatty's political epic "Reds" will debut on DVD on October 17 following a limited theatrical release in New York, Los Angeles and Washington.

The story of a radical American journalist embroiled in the Bolshevik revolution, "Reds" won three Academy Awards, including director for Beatty and supporting actress for Maureen Stapleton.

Paramount Home Entertainment's two-disc package will boast hours of special features, including a making-of documentary, an introduction to the cast, a discussion about the "witness" featured in the film and featurettes on the locations, sets, editing, scoring and audience reaction. The set also includes new interviews with Beatty, co-star Jack Nicholson, composer Stephen Sondheim and others.
A red-carpet event will be held October 4 during the New York Film Festival, followed by a weeklong theatrical run at the ArcLight Cinemas in Los Angeles, Landmark E Street Theater in Washington and the Village East Theater in New York.

Beatty, who also wrote and produced the film, starred as the lead character, journalist John Reed. The cast also included Edward Herrmann, Gene Hackman and Paul Sorvino and Maureen Stapleton. In all, it was nominated for 12 Academy Awards.

Reuters/Hollywood Reporter

[HWBL]

The entire transcript of Warren's first visit to Larry King Live in June of 1990
first and formost as part of the publicity campaign designed by Disney to
promote "Dick Tracy". But of course, other questions were asked, too
Warren was 53 at the time of the interview and looked great; not entirely
wrinkle free , yet still youthful and charmingly shy. And his sweet, young
voice, aaaah, well, that's one of his main attractions for me
This transcript came with a DVD recording of the interview that's not of
the best quality (probably copied from a video tape), but I did make some
cute stills. The comments that accompany the transcript are not mine, but
of the person who transcribed the interview. I must say I do agree with her:
it's so refreshing to see a big star like Beatty break out in blushes so often!

Enjoy!

WARREN QUOTES ABOUT DICK TRACY
LARRY KING LIVE JUNE 1990

LK= Larry King
WB= Warren Beatty

LK: Why Dick Tracy? How did you get a concept
like that: 'I wanna do Dick Tracy?' Why not Daredevil? Green Lantern?
WB: When I was a kid, I began to read on Dick Tracy, so, it
was a world for me...And so I think it was just something
about me that wanted to go back and... (his microphone falls off
his lapel ),
LK: We always in NY have mike problems. That's the problem with
being live. Let's try to put that back on.... So, when you say
'learned to read by reading Dick Tracy, you mean he was your
first image?
WB: Well, when I was 5 or 6 years old, 7 years old, I started reading
Dick Tracy. Yeah. So uh, I have an affection for the guy.
LK: Okay, but why now? Why would a comic strip say as a movie,
in 1990 make it? Did you think of it in 1980?
WB: Well, uh, people came to me with Dick Tracy for years...
LK: Really?
WB: I uh, I never quite saw myself playing Dick Tracy, cos I thought
I didn't look like him. Then I realized nobody looked like him, so I
thought well, mmmmmmmight as well be me instead of somebody else,
so uh (mike falls off again, King starts grabbing WB's lapel and the
microphone, WB starts blushing ) so uh...
LK: I think what we're gonna do is tape this...
WB:..... and so... (blusing, embarrassed smile)



LK: Who finally said... Who finally convinced you that not only should
you do this, but you should write it and direct it?
WB: Well, there was a very good script written by a couple of writers
named Cash and Epps (sp) and I took that and worked with it, and uh,
actually I'd always rather have another director but uh, I uh, I uh,
wound up directing it myself because uh, I just uh, wanted to get
started with the movie and at the same time I'd developed a concept
that I didn't want to foist on somebody else so.... It's less fun to act
and direct at the same time... but....
LK: I would imagine that...So, you would rather have been directed?
WB: Yeah, it's more fun.
LK: Did you have someone in mind?
WB: Oh, a lot of people.
LK: Did you contact anyone?
WB: Yeah, I asked... yeah, yeah...
LK: Then what happened?
WB: Marty Scorsese was gonna do it for a while, and then I had to go
off and do another movie and he uh, he uh, uh, uh ..... got mixed up in
other movies, so uh, Marty didn't do it, and a number of other people
but finally it just seemed the best way to do it was to go ahead and
do it myself.
LK: What clamps does that put on you, though, as an actor? I mean,
are you a fellow actor with your other actors? Or are you their boss?
WB: Well, in a way it's a little bit like Tracy was himself in those, amidst
all those villains. Uuuuuh, Tracy was kind of a stolid guy in the middle
of the strip and all those bad guys and interesting characters ran around
him, so, so I always get, when I direct and act, I'm always more
interested in all the other actors for some reason. They entertain me,
you know? It's kinda hard to entertain yourself.
LK: So, you're watching them?
WB: Yeah, I watch them. I'm a reactive actor. And I, I watch the other
actors. You know, you get me Pacino and and I'm awake for the day.
Or Dustin, Madonna or Glenne Headley who's about as witty as, as an
actress comes, you know? Charlie Korsmo as kid, Mandy Patinkin, Bill
Forsyth, Seymour Cassell.....
LK: Those are brilliant people...
WB: It's a terrific cast. I got lucky. Charlie Durning, Eddo Ross....
LK: Jackie Gleason told me once that good acting is reacting.
And a good actor always wants the other person to be super...
WB: Well, particulary if he's directing, because uh there's a, little,
little added impetus there but uh, if you....it's hard to be bad in a scene
with say Al or Dustin...
LK: Even though you know at times you and he are in the scene, and
we're watching him? And that's okay with you?
WB: Oh, sure, oh, sure! Yeah, yeah. It's uh, it's uh, it's just more fun.
And the more fun you have, in this kind of picture, the better
off you are.
LK: Okay, now when you're doing this, you're acting in this scene, and
you're also the director, you have to visualize it. You also got to see it
as I will eventually see it. How do you do all those 3 things at once?
WB: Well, it's tough. Iiiiiit's crazy. It's....Actually it isn't done. We only
say we do it But, but we device, we who act and direct at the same
time, means of pretending that we are actually directing.
LK: Explain that.
WB: Well, if you're really a good actor you don't watch yourself. You
watch the other people. You don't know what you're doing. For instance
I'm, I'm here talking to you now. As, as a good actor, I don't see what
I'm doing. I see you, I have a vague idea there's somebody else over here.
But I don't really see myself. That is if I'm really talking to you.
LK: And you're really reacting to me.
WB: Well, if I got self conscious all of a sudden, you know, then maybe
I'm lookin' at myself. I really shouldn't do that. So, but as a, as a
director, I could be over there and watch two people here. And so what
you.... and again acting is... Ideally if you're acting you're gonna be
out of control a little bit. But somewhat in control of being out of control.



LK: Because a good actor can't know what's gonna happen the next
minute, right?
WB: That's, that's, that's ideal. That's ideal. And if you're directing
you should be a little bit in control, but you shouldn't be totally in control,
you should be flexible or else you restrain your actors. So, you're in
control of being out of control, or out of control of being in control. It's
schizophrenic.
LK: Sounds perfectly perfectly schiz.
WB: It's crazy.
LK: And you're in a crazy business, aren't you?
WB: Yes.
LK: I mean, being somebody else is crazy.
WB: Well, I don't know. Crazy... it's, it's an art form too. I don't want
to be disrespectful to the form.
LK: No, I know, but if you're 6 years old and you're learning to read
by this guy...and now you're him!
WB: Yeah, it's strange (laughs).




LK: Do you like the attention Touchstone has given this film? From a standpoint as an actor?
WB: Well, I... you know... uh.... yes! I, I, I mean, it's pretty.... nice
to have a thing open and be a big hit. And uhm, I credit them, I can't
say that I credit myself or, or, or this comic strip that was sort of a
character that hasn't been well... that hasn't been remembered well,
there was no...there was no television series on Dick Tracy preceeding
it the way that some other things did have and so I think they did a
great job.
LK: And all the merchandising going on... I mean sometimes when
someone is shy, and you're basically terribly shy...
WB: (blushing) Well, I don't know....
LK: ... you might say 'I don't want all of this.'
WB: Well, I, I, I, I....... don't, I, I don't know how uh.....how... I don't
know how (long pause as he gets stuck on the letter p ) See, I
don't believe in all this pppppublicity iiiiin relation to movies themselves,
because I think that uh... that movies should be perceived on their
own. And talking like this sort of obliterates the movie...So I, I, if you
have an affection for a movie, it's like a little soufle, going out and doing....
ppppppublicity is like stamping your foot in the kitchen. But I think uh,
the reality of life is that you have to do it now and if people have put
up a lot of money to make a movie, you should go out and do it. And I,
I didn't do it for 12 or 13 years and I think I probably was making uh, a
foolish mistake because uh, uh it's just uh part of the game, you know,
to come out and do all these prints and pictures and, and, and...




LK: But that creates the interest, right? And eventually brings the 7
dollars and....
WB: Well, it's very good for business. It's very good for the movie
business. It's very good for making a lot of money. I don't know how good
it is for the making of movies as a, what David Lean called 'the great
near art form of the 20th century', and uh, I think it would be
better if we weren't out there selling movies as if they were fast food,
because uh, I think it would be better if we had the time to adjust to a
movie and learn a little bit about the movies, and then gradually be
compelled to go and see a movie and not in a week, or two weeks, or
three weeks. But, I think I have been pretty lucky, on this movie,
because I made it with a company that actually knows how
to do that stuff brilliantly well. That's their business and I take my hat
off to them, and..... So, I'm going around talking anyway. I stopped
doing interviews for 12 or 13 years, you know, because I just thought...
that people were just creating it out of whole cloth and misquoted you
and took you out of context..and it was embarrassing to me, so I
dropped out of it. Now I think that that is a mistake because I
think uh... if you don't do interviews, they'll just make up the quotes
and make up the stories and do whatever they wanna do anyway....
So...uh...you'll be ...uh...the... the foot will be stamped in the kitchen
and the souffle will drop anyway, you might as well stamp your own
foot and maybe wear a tennis shoe.
LK: Why don't you like.... most people, most people, like
to be asked about what they do.
WB: I like to be asked about what I do, I love to talk. I..I...
was looking forward to talking to you. I watch your show. You know I
think you're a very good interviewer. We met for only a tiny instant
at the Tyson fight and I told you I thought you were a good
interviewer because you actually listen to people. And uh I, I like that.
I respect that and uh... (snickers) I always did want to talk to you,
actually. I just don't approve of movie pub...publicity. It's political....
it's not...cultural...uh it's not.... it has not to do with the....the ...
pppperception of, of, of the movies as art, but that sounds a little
prudish on my part, and so I'll, I'll, I'll just shut up about it.
LK: So, you mean maybe you'd like to come back when there's no
Warren Beatty film out?
WB: I don't think you would enjoy that a lot. I think that I'm gonna
start talking...publicly more because I am just sick of reading the crap
that I read that I was supposed to have said or the stuff that I did....




LK: How do you put up with that, when you read, an obvious lie. I'm
not talking about the truth. The truth can be painful, but at least it's
the truth. What about when you read 'Warren Beatty was with this
person, wasn't with that person. He did this or he didn't do that.' How
do you deal with that?
WB: Well, I think I'm lucky to..to be famous. I'm lucky to have had
the career that I have. And, and uh.. I, I, I...I... I .... what I really
believe is that Justice Black was right when he said we should have
no libel laws. I think we would all be a lot better off if there were
absolutely no... no libel laws. First Amendment absolute. Say what you
wanna say, that's your problem. Let the buyer beware what is said.
But unfortunately we do have libel laws. And so people think if things
are printed about you that aren't true, you would sue! Well, if you really
advocate the First Amendment, as I do, you don't want around...
want to run around suing people. You want to protect the, the,
the, the, ability of the press to write the truth, so.... you get all torn
up about it. And uh... it uh.... How do I feel? Uh, not so good. But I,
but I also believe it is not directed towards me, it's directed towards
all of us.
LK: You mean you don't take it personally?
WB: I don't really take it personally. I've been famous for 30 years now,
I'd be foolish to take it personally. I, I know that there is a certainnnn.....
atmosphere out there of what the Germans call "Schadenfreud" .... the
enjoyment of other people's misfortune and I think that uh ....you know
there, there, there is something in... probably in the egalitarian formation
of our society that says 'Let's cut them all down to size' and I'm, I guess,
somewhat flattered that people want to cut me down to size and uhm...
LK: But do you think that the average guy in Des Moines wants to cut
you down to size, or the person writing in the tabloid wants to cut you
down to size?
WB: I think maybe, unfortunately, we all wanna cut each other
down to size. I, I, I don't want to.....pretend to remain above this....




LK: Do you think this is a human trait?
WB: Well, I don't, I, I, I, I think uh....possibly that there's, there's that
element in, in us and I think we should watch it. I think we should be
careful with it, because it uh, it, it, it makes our l.. our.. the quality of
our lives and communications deteriorate and that's too bad. It's sad.
LK: Do you think it's affected your work?
WB: My work? Uhm....no, I don't uh... I don't... no...bec... be..because....
what I think of is the good work...I've ... uh... done a lot of bad work,
my good work has, has, has to do with trying to tell the truth and uh,
no I don't think this ... in fact uh, if anything this might help the work,
because it makes you a little angry and you... you just wanna tell the
truth a little bit more. So, I wouldn't say it affects mmm...my work,
really, uh...
LK: Our guest is Warren Beatty...
WB: uh, uh, uh, not negatively....
LK: ...he's been a major star for a long time and he's terrific in Dick
Tracy. We'll be talking about that aspect, that film...we'll be showing
highlights of it. We'll be taking your phone calls. The people in it and
around it and working with him and the performance he gets from
Al, an unrecognizable Al Pacino, right after this.




Did you have Pacino in mind, by the way, all the time for that part?
WB: No. I, I, I didn't know who to get and I was having lunch at a
restaurant one day in Hollywood and I saw Al who probably knows
more about actors than anybody. I went over and I said 'You gotta
help me cast this part. I don't know who to get for it'. And he.... we
talked about it for a while...and he said 'I'll call you later'. And he
called me and he said, uhm, 'What did you really mean?' And I, I said,
well 'What do you mean?' And he said, well, 'Were you thinking about
me?' And I said 'Well, I certainly am now! Do you... Are you interested?'
And he said 'Well, what do you think?' And I said 'I think I'll do whatever
you say.' So, he said 'Well, let's talk about it.' He came over to the
house and... we talked and... He said he wanted to do it. And uh....
uhm... it was about.... a couple of weeks before he began to shoot.
He's uh....he's one of the most uh....gifted actors alive.
LK: That make-up was all his own?
WB: Yeah, well.... the group, but, but..... the thing about it is that
you..... you know... you can't find Al in there. It's, it's it's...completely
unrecognizable. On the set no one would know who he was. In fact,
when he first came on the set, he, he... I gave him the freedom to
not take any billing on the picture at first...And uh, we called him Guido
Frascatti...And he came to the set and uh people didn't.... had no idea
that it was Al Pacino. And uh, that went on for quite a long time. A
few weeks into it people began to realize that they were working with
Al Pacino.
LK: Did he bring the Richard III concept to that?
WB: Ask Al. He brought a lot of things. And, uh I, I... I never interfere
too much...
LK: Actors don't ask actors things like that?
WB: Well, I think he... you know I, I...that's his business. I don't like
to say what other... what other people do. I...think it's an invasion of
their privacy, but he, he.....Al has done Richard III, he's also done
Arturo Weed(?) He's done, you know, everything back to Shakespeare
he's...you know.... he's one of our great actors. And he's a great
comedian.
LK: And he does not like doing this?
WB: Al? I don't think Al does it at all.
LK: At all?
WB: No. I don't think so. I don't know.
LK: I've never seen him, sit down and be asked questions.
WB: Well, it just feels silly, you know, sometimes to sit down and talk.
But, but uh....nnnnnnnnnnnot uh, mmmmmmany people are as uh, as
uh, as good an interviewer as you are.
LK: Would he be good? If Al wanted to do this, would Al be good?
Would he be responsive? Supposing he said 'I'll come on.'
WB: Well, it's hard to tell because it is a sort of a fictitious circumstance...
I mean, if you and I were talking alone, I have no doubt that we...
well, we seem to be doing okay on the air but uh, but there's a little...
you know we're....ppppperforming to some extent....
LK: Yeah, little bit...
WB: Well... maybe more than a litte bit...I... I...there are people out
there watching us...and... we're aware of that I'm very aware
of that.
LK: You're aware, yeah, but you're shy.... but if we were having dinner
I would say to you 'Do you think Pacino would be a good guest?' I
would say that at dinner.
WB: Oh yeah, because Al is a, is a... brilliant guy, interested in a lot of
things and so uh...uh, yeah, sure.
LK: Before we talk about some other subjects. Filming Dick...just filming
Dick Tracy...was this tough? I mean... you've directed other films... I
mean 'Reds'....
WB: Tough? Uh, well this picture.... this picture had to be really
planned, every shot of it. Because, you know, we created that world
with the matte paintings and the .... all of that.... stuff, so there
was nothing that could be accidental about it. The... the lighting all,
all had to be completely uh... controlled. The color all had to be
completely... controlled. Because we're dealing with both pigmentation
of color and the lighting of that pigmentation so it's always changing
and to get it uuuuuuh a, a look where these primary colors would seem
to be unified in some way was... it had to be planned. So, we had to
know in advance what we were doing.
LK: When the real nightclub comes out of the painted street... Is that
artistically hard to do? I mean it appears... on, on screen it - this is
selling a lot of tickets, I know, (chuckles) but... this is genius!
As a formula. Was that hard to do technically?
WB: Naaaaaawwww.... well, it wasn't hard for me, because I,
I just uh....you know, got all these people who know what they're
doing ....
LK: But you gotta tell them what you wanted, right?
WB: I said what I wanted, but uh... for me it was really fun. I...I...
I...I uh.. I had more fun on this movie than I ever had. The
subject itself is fun, the cast is fun, the music is fun. I've never put
this much music in a movie. And it's fun to watch it. I mean it's just uh...
and, I, I always had the feeling that I was making a movie for uh, a
family. You know, for kids.
LK: Oh really?
WB: Oh, yeah, yeah, and, and the thing that I...uh...have... that's
the most fun for me now is to see little kids really get it. It's a good
picture for kids.
LK: Do you ever think about your own image? Whether it's been created
falsely by a uh, a tabloid that may have lied a time or two, or
brought on by your own refusal at times to come forward, except
politically?
WB: I don't know, I think, if you ever have a very clear..... (halts and
tilts head, eyes wide open now) To come forward politically?
LK: You...We've always known your politics.
WB: Yeah...When did I fail to come forward politically?
LK: No, you didn't fail. I said except politically...
WB: Oh...oh...oh....oh...
LK: You did not come forward except for that...
WB: Oh, yyyyyyyeah, well, I..I..I..don't...believe much... I didn't use
to believe much in movie publicity. I think I was wrong. I think I didn't
accept the reality of what the movie business now is...
LK: And from that...your image would be what?
WB: Well, I think that you can't sit around thinking about your image
and even if you do, you don't know what it is. But you have friends you
hope to tell you the truth and they'll say to you what people think of
you I guess that's important. But in the long run, when you've been
famous as long as I have you, you... you are who you are and you
can't ... you... you...
LK: Yeah, but this, this, this... rogue image....Like that? Is there part of
you that kinda likes that?
WB: Well, you know, I've been famous for 30 years. I've never been
married, and I had a very good time.
LK: Do you like women?
WB: I...I... I like women.
LK: Why do you think we... we only have a minute till the break...
we are so interested in the fact that you like women? Why is that
so absorbing?
WB: Because I think we have a limited concentration span and
we understand that and we're amused by it. And so... so it's
entertaining. Sort of infotainment, and it's fun.
LK: So therefore you like it?
WB: Iiiiiin you? When I hear about your sexlife? Love it.
LK: (starts laughing hysterically, WB grins along shyly) That's what I
mean. You read about someone else, you like it?
WB: (softly) Well.....
LK: Well....
WB: (softly) ... mmmmore than I should...(grins)




LK: (again, laughing hysterically) Wa....Warren Beatty is our guest.
This film cost 30 million dollars to make. It shows it. They're spending
10 million to promote it. THAT shows it. They're gonna make it
back next week! Dick Tracy is the film. The star is Warren Beatty, he
also directed. We will be including your phonecalls. He's with us for the
full hour. This is Larry King Live, with Warren Beatty.
Don't go away.
Our guest is Warren Beatty. Only man, by the way, ever to be nominated
for Oscars in four different categories on two different occassions. Acting,
producing, writing and directing. And now Dick Tracy and we have....the
watch...He wears both watches, but of course this is the one, we're more
interested in (close-up of Beatty's wrist with his own watch and the
Dick Tracy movie watch). Tell us about this one, Dick.
WB: (smiling and blushing, OMG he's really shy!) Well, that's how they
used to draw it, in the strip. And these uh, Disney people, uh, made this
one up for me and they gave it to me. It actually works.
LK: It works as a watch?
WB: It works as a watch. You're not gonna hear an awful lot if you press
this and talk into it... I mean you can talk into it, ... you ain't gonna get
much of a message back.
LK: Are you... going to wear this watch for a long time or just for promotional....
WB: I'd say mmmmaybe...about 45 mmmore minutes (he breaks out
laughing, King joins in).
LK: But they made it, though?
WB: Huh? Yeah, yeah, yeah...(takes it off, gives it to King)...here.
LK: Boy, that is a neat watch.
WB: (soft) It's nice.
LK: Did you get a kick, having been a kid and watch that, did you get
a hoot out of the first time you said (holds watch to his mouth) Tracy...(returns watch to Beatty).




WB: Yeah...yeah, I got a kick out of all this stuff (puts watch back on)...
the cars, the uh.... I got a kick out of ... working with generic products,
you know? Nothing is a... a brand in that movie. There's no Fords. There're
no Chevrolets. They're all just...cars. The grills of the cars are generic, I
don't know if you've noticed.
LK: Did not notice.
WB: No. The dollar bills they just... they got a dollar sign on them....
ya know?...Hotel something like the... well, the Club Ritz, there's...
Acme this... Ajax that...you know....
LK: What city is it?
WB: It's generic...It's... it's... a city...in America... in the Mid-West...
LK: It's the Mid-West?
WB: Uh....yeah....
LK: Ch.. Ch.... It's not Chicago?
WB: Weeeeell, it came out of Chicago with Chester Gould but, but uh,
we didn't say Chicago.




LK: I think Chester would've loved that movie. You were true to Dick Tracy.
WB: Did you know Chester Gould?
LK: Met him once with the guy who drew Smiling Jack. He was in the
audience... Zack Mosley I think was the guy's name, Zack....forgot his
name, whoever drew Smiling Jack, I had on, and Chester was there.
Chester died when?
WB: Uh...
LK: 19....67?
WB: I think in the seventies....
LK: Let's take some calls for Warren Beatty. Rochester, NY. Hello.
cALLER: Hi Warren. You were very interested in politics a few years
back. Are you still interested in doing that?
WB: Yeah. I think you do it whether you say you're doing it or not.
LK: Does that mean you come forward, you support candidates, speak
out on issues?
WB: Well, I..I've begun to think uuuuh....questionnnnn .....whether
....elective pppppolitics has the sammmmmmmme (that's the word
same that Warren gets stuck on ) relevance as it, as it, as it...
as it....sh...as it...used to....or should have. I think we're in a period
where we worship ......uuuuuuuuuuh....demographics to such an extent
that uh uuuuhm, the demographics and the mmmmmmoney contributions
are leading the politicians rather than the politicians leading....the people.
So, uhm, ....but I, we all lead political lives by omission or co-mission and
I have...I enjoy politics, I enjoy dealing with people.
LK: Do you have a current... someone you like?
WB: Oh, there's a lot of people that I respect a lot...you mean a uh...
uh...
LK: Presidential (?). We know you are a democrat?
WB: I'm a Democrat, but I...I...don't have uh...th...but...there are a
number of people that I think could do uh ... that I'd prefer to have in
office right now....




LK: Would Robert Kennedy have been a great President?
WB: Yes.
LK: He was a close friend?
WB: Well, I...I...I...knew Robert Kennedy........I worked for him... I
supported him, yes.
LK: Some people have called on this program a lot to question when
stars support canditates. Is that fair, unfair, do you have an edge ....
d'you think? Affects a vote, d'you think?
WB: Well, I....yyyyyyyyyyy.....what you do is you attract attention.
And it's there for you to either do something with it or blow it. And I
think, whichever it is, it happens more quickly than if you didn't
attract attention.
LK: (laughs) To Los Angeles with Warren Beatty. Hello.
CALLER: Hi, Mr. Beatty. I'm 22 and I've admired your work in both
acting and directing for a while. And my question is were you at all
worried about or at least interested in what the effects of your
lack of visibility for the past, I guess, 6 or so years, would be in terms
for your box office or do you have pretty much confidence that the
picture would carry itself and you wouldn't have to worry about it?
LK: Good question.
WB: Yeah. I didn't uh, no, I, I, I worried about it uuuuuuuuuuuh,
mmmm... I guess a little bit. The uh... I was.... involved with a very
good company who were very good at promoting the picture, I never
expected it to open to this kind of business. But, but it uh,
but uh.....I...I thought it was a comic strip character that had been
not......very well remembered uhm, uh, and uh and as you say, every
time I make a.... I make so few movies that whenever I make 'em it's
like I'm doin' a comeback. So, I've been making comebacks since I was 24!
LK: (laughing) Where has Warren been!
WB: (shy smile) yeah...So.... I'm just uh........happy that uh....
something... someone got the message out there and uh
LK: Was it Michael Eisner by the way, was he the guy who said yes
on this?
WB: Michael Eisner and Jeffrey Katzenberg. They run Disney. And uh...
they uh...they, I think they just did a helluva job.
LK: When you meet Michael Eisner, he's the kind of guy, you meet him,
and he wears this little button that says 'Michael'... They all call each
other by their first name at Disney. And Michael Eisner looks
like a guy... that could sorta work in a clothing store....
WB: (looks with flabbergasted smile at LK)
LK: I mean he looks like a kinda regular, I mean, he's certainly not one
of these flashy .... showbiz types....He's not the type... If you'd picture
a head of a studio, would you cancer...caster... would you cast Michael
Eisner as head of a studio?
WB: (doesn't know what the heck to do with the question, looks shy
and bewildered).... I don't know...I guess so....
LK: Doesn't look like a head of a studio!
WB: I don't know uh........he... he sure runs a helluva studio!




LK: (laughing) The Bronx NY with Warren Beatty, Hello.
CALLER: Hello, I'd like to say first that it's good to see you doing
interviews again, Warren. And also I'd like to ask how far were you into
the production of Dick Tracy when Batman came out and how did it
affect your production of the movie and the marketing plan?
WB: Well, we had finished Dick Tracy, before Batman came out, uhm,
so uh, it really didn't affect us I don't think. And they're two very, very
different uh...movies. Batman had a television series that preceded it
and people are much, much more familiar with Batman and, and I, I
think they are much more anxious to see a movie about Batman than
they were about Dick Tracy. Dick Tracy kind of....iiiiiiit's of a different
period, and it, it uh, uh, it, it.... and it's a different sort of uh spirit than
Batman. Dick Tracy is a kind of a family movie I think, uh...
LK: You think they should not be compared, then? Except they're both comic....
WB: I, I, don't uh, well, they're both comic strips but uh, I don't, I, I,
I don't....I think that's where the, the comparison ends other than they
I guess Batman and Dick Tracy and Superman are the three kind of
most...uh....classic comic strips.
LK: Did you like Batman?
WB: I did! Yeah, I thought it was good. I loved Jack in it. I thought
he was..... hilarious.




LK: We'll be right back with Warren Beatty. The producer, director, the
STAR of Dick Tracy, released by Touchstone. Don't go away.
(BREAK)
I have to ask you this, because she's been on this program and I
know it may not be the world's greatest relationship but the
public would love to see you and your sister, do a movie together.
Would you ever?
WB: I'd love to make a picture with her and we do have a very
good relationship. I don't know what, what....
LK: Cos it's always...I've always read, see, that it was stilted. Not true?
WB: No, no.
LK: Always had a good brother sister relationship?
WB: Well, it's been ups and downs like any brother and sister but uh...
no, I, I uh... I have nothing but love for her and uh and she's uh....
and a tremendous amount of admiration for her uh......energy and her
uh, her curiosity and her willingness to get into areas that other people
are embarrassed to get into.
LK: She's vital.
WB: She's vital and she's uh, she's uh...she's a good woman. She's uh,
she's uhm, she has uhm... real concern for people.
LK: How about working together?
WB: 'd love to.
LK: Well, has anyone put things before the both of you?
WB: Well, you know, I... you sorta have to put things before yourself in,
in a way...uh...people have suggested certain things...there's an ax....
sort of an axium, you know 'the character is plot?...So, with
Shirley, she's so fascinating to me that I could see a character there,
that would create a plot, you know? You could write a...you could write
a plot there....I don't know...I just... you get caught up in other
things that....
LK: But you would like to work with her?
WB: Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. She's a terrific...a terrific....actress...She's a
great actress, great comedian.
LK: And she's touring now doing her showbiz thing....
WB: Oh boy, great dancer...
LK: And she can write...
WB: ....She does everything...well.




LK: Are we just at the ebb of Madonna? Are we just at the beginning
of her?
WB: Well, IIIIIIIIIIII..(he really gets stuck there, lol)......
LK: I mean, is there lots more of her to come?
WB: IIIIIII think we'd better face it, you know, she is here. And she is
a contender for everything and she's, she's uh...we should uh....be ready
for her. The woman has energy and generosity of spirit and is just an
incredible....lot of fun.
LK: Durham, North Carolina with Warren Beatty. Hello.
CALLER: Uh, yes, I wanted to get Mr. Beatty's reaction to the uh interview
that was done with him last week on prime time ABC. Thank you.
LK: What happened on prime time, last Thursday?
WB: I, I just thought it was kind of silly. They asked me if I would talk
to Diane Sawyer on my way to the theatre and I said 'Sure'...
LK: You were down in Orlando, right?
WB: Yeah, yeah. And uh, they said just talk for a minute or so here
and it turned into something else...and then it got a little unpredictable....
it was kind of fun. What did you think?
LK: I didn't see it, I saw the transcript of it... It seems like they were
having an uncomfortable time with you and...You mean you didn't know
that it was supposed to be an interview?
WB: Well, I, I, I thought I was supposed to do a satellite interview with
her so uh, and somebody else was talking to me on my left and and they
were running film on my right and another voice was coming to me on
my earpiece on the right and it all got a little crazy and so I just tried
to have a good time with it, but uh.....
LK: Did you sense that they weren't having a good time with it?
WB: Well, I guess they...I don't... uh, weren't they? I don't....I don't
know....
LK (laughs): Did anyone say anything to you after it?
WB: A number of people thought it was an eccentric piece of television....
LK: (laughing) Tulsa, Oklahoma with Warren Beatty, Hello.
CALLER: Yeah, hello Mr. Beatty. It's a pleasure to be speaking to you.
Ahm, my question to you is this. I've been wanting for years to know are
you gonna go forward with your project on Howard Hughes?
WB: Yeah.
LK: When?
WB: When, I don't know for sure but it's ...Usually I, I, I develop a thing
for a long period of time and then when I can't avoid it any longer I have
to make it. I'm near that point.
LK: Howard Hughes begs making.
WB: Yeah.
LK: Doesn't he?
WB: Yeah.
LK: Gonna get into him? It's gonna be difficult.
WB: He was a .... very interesting guy. And, and, and an interesting....
what he represents .....is interesting.
LK: Also, now he led the kind of life where he was very
visible....Howard Hughes, people have told me that he would
have, in the late forties, early fifties, he would have gone on shows
like this....and then he changed....
WB: Well.....
LK: and then... he was completely gone....
WB: Cyclical....
LK: Oh boy! But you're gonna do him?
WB: Yeah.
LK: We go to NY city. Hello.
CALLER: Yeah, hi, I wanna know which character that you played in
your career are you most like in your real life?
WB: I don't know how to answer that, really. Uh, I don't know.
LK: You bring yourself into everything, right?
WB: Yes, you know yyyyy....as an actor you are in every character
really, and you're in uh you're also in the characters that other people
play. So, I don't wanna get too metaphysical on you here but it's, it's
uh...I, I, I couldn't tell you... I'm, I'm I'm not...I don't know.
LK: What about stage?
WB: I haven't done a play for so long that it's uh...........ridiculous.
And I don't think I wanna go back and do a play.
LK: Really?
WB: No.
LK: But that's the pulse, it's happening, it's where the....
WB: Yeah...Yeah, yeah....well, IIIIII'd... rather get that pulse.....in
other places.
LK: No interest in stepping on stage at 8 o'clock.....
WB: No.
LK:..... and the curtain goes up....
WB: Noooooooo......no (smiles shyly).
LK: Our guest is Warren Beatty. The film is Dick Tracy. We'll be right back.
(BREAK)
Our guest is Warren Beatty. Before we take the next call, you mentioned
that you've never married. This is by definite choice? You are opposed to
the institution?
WB: No! No, no, on the contrary...
LK: You'd like to marry?
WB: I, I, I...would like....to be married. Yeah.
LK: Have children?
WB: Yes.
LK: Still might?
WB: Yes.
LK: Okay. Campbell, California, hello.
CALLER: Hi, Larry. Love your show, watch it every night.
LK: Thank you.
CALLER: Mr. Beatty, I was wondering about the reviews for Dick Tracy.
I haven't seen the film myself but I use the last clip as an example.
You're getting wonderful reviews but having children, I've noticed that
there are some comments about the violence in the show and I wanna
know how you feel about that?
WB: (raises his shoulders, looks surprised and dumbfounded at LK)




LK: It's interesting because there's no blood in Dick Tracy, and I don't think
you see anyone die....
WB: No, I think it's the only PG movie out right now....I think it's made
for kids to see. There's no blood, there's no four letter words....
LK: Where did you get that, Ma'am?
CALLER: Uhm, well, I don't wanna mention the show... but it is a movie
mom type of review and she was saying that because there's no blood
and no death and no consequences that maybe, maybe it is saying
that, well, here there is this kind of violence but there is no consequences,
so...I was just wondering if you felt that that's the kind of....
obviously you don't but ....
LK: Oh, you mean someone criticized it because it has violence with no consequence?
CALLER: Right.
LK: So, you mean that it didn't draw blood was a critique of its
violence?
CALLER: Well, A: because there was a lot of machine gunfighting and B:
because it didn't draw blood is it telling kids that there is no consequence
for that type of force?
WB: I, I, I....
LK: So, you really can't win....
WB: IIIIIIII, I haven't read anything like that and wh....Mention the show, who was it?
LK: Ma'am, who said it?
CALLER: It was on the Home Show.
WB: What's the Home Show?
LK: What's the Home Show?
CALLER: It's a show uh, in LA or California anyway, I don't know if it's
nation wide but, it's a morning show. And there was a movie review.
WB: No, no, I wasn't aware of that...I, I, I,......the th....thing that thrilled
me the most about this movie is that it does get all ages and that it's...
it's recommended and that people say it's, it's great for the family,
I...everrr...uh...it...it seems to me that everybody said...it's great for the
family.
LK: I'd never heard that, either. Birmingham hello.
CALLER: Hi Larry, how are you tonight?
LK: Fine.
CALLER: Great! Uhm, Mr. Beatty?
WB: Yeah?
CALLER: Uhm, I love your smile, by the way. (OMG BIG close-up of
Warren looking surprised into the camera, then smiling shyly while
he looks down again and he BLUSHES!!!! Sooo hot and sweet!)
Uhm, it seems that you have all the money that you need. What
motivates you to act and or direct?
WB: Uuuuuh, to...be..uh..uuuuuuuuuuuuh......What do I say?....
To...express...what I...want to express. To say what I want to say.
And I finally find that uh....after a certain amount of experience...I
seem to have the tools to do it. And I do it in movies so, that at the
moment is the place I want to do it.........in.
LK: So money was not the goal?
WB: Uh, I uh... I don't think uh... I got lucky early, you know, I became
a movie star. I had a great director in the first picture I did named Kazan,
and the picture was a hit and I got lucky and then I didn't have to worry
about eating. So uhm, I have never worked...uh...with money as a
primary...uh...goal. But uhm....(softly) I do like money (smiles).
LK: But, so therefore you never worked out of need?
WB: Need for money? I've worked out of...uh not uh, not uh....not out
of need...Welllll .... no, not really. Not out of need for money, no. I've
been lucky
LK: Has that made it ....
WB: Huh?
LK: Has that made it easier? You think? To do what you wanted?
WB: Wellllll, I don't know if that's made it easier. Sometimes it's better
if you go ahead and work when you don't feel like working. I think that
uh you know when I was kidding earlier when I said that every picture
seems almost like a comeback since I made so.... since I didn't make
so many movies...uuuuuh....I don't know. I really don't know. Sometimes
I wonder.
LK: But you don't say to yourself 'I'm gonna put 10 million in the bank,
cos I did this...'
WB: Oh, I wouldn't know how to do that. That's not..... That doesn't
interest me....much. It interests me a little, but....
BOTH WB AND LK BURST OUT LAUGHING.




LK: We'll be back with our remaining moments with Warren Beatty.
He stars in Dick Tracy. Don't go away.
(BREAK)
Just a couple of minutes left with Warren Beatty. We go to Pittsburg. Hello.
CALLER: Hi Warren. Uhm, one of my favorite films of all time is 'Splendor
in the Grass' I thought you and Natalie Wood were magical. Could you tell
me what it was like working with her and how you felt when she died?
WB: (Genuinely looking sad and speaking with an even softer voice than
before) Aaah, well, uh, Natalie was uh, you know, uh, a professional
actress from the age of 4. She....was...uh...really quite...a wonderful
actress..uh...completely straightforward about things...and uh..was...
LK: Easy to work with?
WB: Was very easy to work with...
LK: That was your first film.
WB: That was my first movie yeah...(his voice gets even softer now and
his eyes start to mist up) and I felt uh...well, you can imagine how I felt...when she died...
LK: You were friends, then?
WB: Sure.



LK: Kazan. Was that a plus to have him do your first film?
WB: Kazan is uh.....I uh...you know I'm prejudiced about him.....I...think
he...he's the greatest director alive...I think th...that....KKKazan is just
uh... just...yeah, it was more than a plus...it was uh...it was the uh...
most uh...instructive uh...experience that I could have because it
was also my first....film. He's a completely well organized man and uh I,
I...just uh...an exemplary director.
LK: Do you go watch Tracy again? Do you still go watch it?
WB: Oh uh, it's a lot of fun for me to watch it because it makes people
smile. Uh, and I do enjoy it, more. Usually I don't go and watch films or
watch audiences. I have been doing it a little bit with this
because...it's...it has a simplicity to it .....
LK: Mel Brooks used to say there's nothing like standing in back when
you make an audience feel good.
WB: Yeah.
LK: Knowing that you made them feel good.
WB: Yeah, well... he.... does...
LK: Yeah, so you might be in some theater tomorrow, as people watch
Dick Tracy, you might be there.
WB: Yeah, well, I, I've turned into a human publicity machine so, so...
tomorrow...God knows what I'll be doing (smiles shyly).
LK: (laughs) What a great pleasure, having you. Thanks, Warren.
WB: Thank you....iiiiiit's....good to be ....to...talk with you....
LK: Hey? How did we do?
WB: Huh?
LK: How did we do?
WB: On this? Let's do it again (smiles)
LK: He'll do it again! Without a film!(laughs)

[bite me spidey]

That first picture of him with Natalie Wood. Good lord! He had/has amazing bone structure, and the gorgeous lips and eyes just add to it. I had no idea he had such beautiful eyes.

[Chalet]

Well well well......look at what I missed.

http://reporter.blogs.com/risky/

Beatty's Reds: Bound for Glory

What does a filmmaker want these days? Respect. A place in history. And what better way to achieve that than by restoring a great movie to its former glory with a major DVD release? Some movies stand the test of time, some become dated. As I was looking for the best movie of the last 25 years, Brian De Palma's Scarface was one of the candidates. (THR's TK Arnold examines how Universal has pushed the movie back into public consciousness.) And so was Warren Beatty's Reds, another classic on the comeback trail. This one mounted a New York Film Festival screening this week [Wireimage photo, right] and several theatrical bookings as well before its October 17 DVD release.

Saturday night L.A.'s DGA theater was packed with such directors as Joe Dante, Penelope Spheeris, Amy Heckerling, Tony Bill and Rod Lurie, many with their teen kids in tow, to see Reds on the big screen. The 1981 movie, one of my all-time favorites, holds up really well—at the same time that you can't help but recognize that the same movie could never be made today. It would be too long (at three hours and 21 minutes), too period, too expensive, and way too politically left. After all, it's a sympathetic portrait of legendary Communist John Reed (Beatty) and his wife, Louise Bryant (Diane Keaton). It was amazing that it got made at the time. (Beatty almost called the movie Comrades.)


During the Q & A afterwards, sensitively conducted by Beatty's choice, Capote director Bennett Miller (who allowed Beatty to ramble but eventually pulled him back on topic), the actor-writer-director-producer praised his editor Dede Allen and Michael Eisner (who were in the house) as well as Barry Diller and the late Gulf & Western chief Charlie Bluhdorn, who greenlit the $32 million picture. "The distribution we now have does not accommodate itself to these pictures," Beatty said. "Lawrence of Arabia and Dr. Zhivago came out in two theaters, people had time to catch up with them. They would stay in theaters for a year. It's now 2000, 3000 theaters. Dick Tracy was 3500 theaters. Boom! You get it or you don't. It's gone. They're all gone so fast they don't have time to develop a following. It's bad for the content of movies."


Beatty made a provocative reference to a major movie star once represented by his publicist, Pat Kingsley: "I did no interviews for Reds. I thought the baggage I brought or some dumb thing I said in public might hurt the movie, which was a fragile thing. It's akin to a chef coming into a kitchen with a souffle and stomping his foot. I still think the massive publicity people do to accommodate 5000 theaters is unfortunate—it clouds what we think of the movie, especially the personal publicity someone might fall into."

[HWBL]

Originally Posted by bite me spidey

That first picture of him with Natalie Wood. Good lord! He had/has amazing bone structure, and the gorgeous lips and eyes just add to it. I had no idea he had such beautiful eyes.

LOL, yeah, he was an outrageously handsome, nay, beautiful man, but his eyes have often been described as the smallest in Hollywood (unless he opens them wide, of course, as you could see in some photos).
Did you see this quote, I believe it was from the sixties, but I could be wrong.

From a magazine, a photographer who photographed him.
"Clinically speaking, he should not be as beautiful as he is. His face is too long, his eyes too small, too close set and on top of that they're mis-aligned. He has a turned up nose, which usually only looks good on young girls. His teeth are perfect, but too big, he has too much of a pout to be considered manly. His jawline is too square, his eyelashes too long, his hair curls too much in the wrong directions. He is too big in the chest and shoulders to make him appear attractive in photographs, because the camera puts on 10 pounds at least. His legs on the other hand are relatively thin and too long compared to the rest of his body. In all fairness, he does not photograph all that well. But when you meet him face to face, you're rendered speechless. I've been doing this job for a long time now, photographed a lot of models, and without a doubt he is one of the most beautiful people I have ever had the pleasure to capture."

Fun stuff.