Warren Beatty [Actor]

[Mira]

^I just watched that a while back and I enjoyed it. All of the actors were great. Good movie, and for kids too. It's not perfect, just a nice little thing, with a twist at the end that makes you think a bit.

[AliceInWonderland]

I love Robert Redford x 100,000,000,000,000!

[HWBL]

Originally Posted by Mira

HWBL, this reminds me that one time on one of my many flights back from L.A. to S.F. when I was dating my ex (1980-81). I was waiting for my luggage at the carrel and I looked over 20 feet to my right and there was Jack Warden standing there waiting for his luggage. He blended right in, was by himself and handled his own luggage, dressed like a run-of-the-mill guy. Couldn't have looked less like a celebrity. No one else gave him a second look. I just remember thinking "good for him." He gets to work with great people, do great work, make a lot of money AND go mostly unnoticed in public!

Yes, Jack was great. One of the greatest character actors ever in my opinion. He never used tricks to draw attention to himself. He simply "was". He played in great movies, always as part of an ensemble. Like "All The President's Men", his movies with Beatty and downright silly stuff like "Used Cars" with Kurt Russell. He also had a small part in "While you were sleeping". I just loved his style. There aren't many, if any, like him left anymore.

Originally Posted by Chalet

I haven't seen An Unfinished Life but I'm going to rent it and report back. I've never seen any stills till now. A disheveled Redford is still my Bobby.....





(Sorry to hijack WB)

Yes, I like Redford scruffy and at ease with his age IF he is that way in a movie. But, whether it's the doing of the directors or his own wishes, sometimes it was getting a bit too much. Not like Cary Grant, you know, who just became a charming, grey haired guy on screen, Redford (and until Bulworth Beatty too) seemed to be clinging too much to what he was known for, past the due date. Here's the article I mentioned earlier:

Film: Men of a certain age (Seattle Weekly)

Film May 20, 1998
Men of a certain age
Robert Redford still wants to be a star,
but Warren Beatty doesn't care anymore.
By Sheila Benson
Two eminences, now getting a little gray around the muzzle,
had a rare face-off this weekend in New York and Los Angeles
movie theaters. Actor-director-co-producers Warren Beatty and
Robert Redford showed up with what's been occupying them of late:
Beatty's Bulworth, on the sorry-ass state of politics today, and
Redford's The Horse Whisperer, body- and soul-mending, cowboy style.


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The Horse Whisperer
directed by Robert Redford
starring Robert Redford, Kristin Scott Thomas, Dianne Wiest

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Bulworth
written and directed by Warren Beatty
starring Warren Beatty, Halle Berry, Oliver Platt, Amiri Baraka, Paul
Sorvino
See end of article for related links.

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Beatty has an additional credit; he's Bulworth's co-writer, with Jeremy
Pikser. However, you can bet that although Redford didn't write his
movie (Eric Roth and Richard LaGravenese did), there isn't so much as
a horsefly in it that he didn't sign off on. As filmmakers, Beatty and
Redford have black belts in micromanagement.

If there were ever a moment when one could cry, "Auteur, auteur,"
this would be it. So it may be the time to look at this pair of certified
superstars as they reach a certain age (they both turn 61 this year),
at the risks—if any—they take, and how they manipulate that thing
called image.

Artistically, they're of equal heft: They've each directed four films
(actually Beatty co-directed Heaven Can Wait) and each has won an
Oscar for his pains—Beatty for Reds and Redford for Ordinary People.
Both are stingy with their appearances on screen, and legendarily vain.
And although Bulworth and The Horse Whisperer are hardly last hurrahs,
these pictures may be career high water marks.

Warren Beatty and Robert Redford are thoughtful, conscientious men;
when they hit the subjects that move them, that conscientiousness
can turn obsessive. Pump-priming audiences for his movie, Beatty
recently put his thoughts, chiefly political, on view in a hefty New
York Times Magazine interview—with, of course, the cover picture:
one doesn't give something for nothing—and on a full hour of Charlie
Rose. Likewise, Redford's views—old politics, the new movie, the
barest morsel of himself—are currently aired in a long, soft New
Yorker piece. (Reading Redford's anecdote about Ethel Kennedy
giving him flack for playing a Kennedy-like politician in The Candidate,
a casual reader would assume that Redford directed rather than
simply executive-produced the film. Pace Michael Ritchie. Similarly,
Alan Pakula has vanished as the director of All the President's Men,
as its co-star talks animatedly about his own role in its making.)

Where Beatty and Redford separate is in temperament and, crucially,
humor. In the New Yorker article, more than one man who knows
Redford well swears that there's "a crazy guy," a wild man, a "bear"
inside. If so, that bear must have nearly starved to death. Beatty is
on intimate terms with his crazy side, and he's played to it more than
once (take another look at McCabe and Mrs. Miller).

At some point, the Sundance Kid made a choice: Between actor and
movie star, he opted for movie star. Butch Cassidy, on the other hand,
chose acting, which is why you will have a better, more nourishing time
watching Paul Newman in Twilight or The Verdict, or even Mr. and Mrs.
Bridge than any Redford performance over the same period.

It seems to have taken Redford a long while to get really comfortable
with the idea of stardom, even after Butch and Sundance. He never
seemed to glory in the idea until maybe The Natural, the most
completely specious vision of both America and baseball since
Norman Rockwell. That one fixed the image of what Paul Newman
has called Redford's "incorruptible masculinity"; even his teeth
seemed to twinkle.

Since that time, Redford has had a sureness about his choices:
He knows why he's a star and what makes him one, and he doesn't
make mistakes. Indecent Proposal cemented his movie-star image.
Everyone else took heat for being in it; he came away unscathed.
Up Close and Personal was the paradigm of what stars can do—in
this case two of them—and critics cheered Redford and Pfeiffer for
their pure skill at it.

All the more reason to be caught off guard by The Horse Whisperer.
Every filmmaker should frame the words of Charles Brackett, writer,
producer, frequent collaborator with Billy Wilder. Asked what made a
movie successful, he said: "Make audiences want something really
badly. Then give it to them."

You can bet audiences will want something in The Horse Whisperer.
They want what Clint Eastwood was smart enough to give them in
Madison County. After two and one-half mortal hours of not getting
it in Whisperer, they may start fires in the aisles.

It's not simply the story of a cowboy-savant who lovingly cures a
damaged horse and its damaged adolescent owner. It's also about
the cowboy and the married lady (Kristin Scott Thomas) and the nice,
growing animal attraction between them. Then abruptly, through hubris,
or modesty, or willful misreading, Redford puts on the brakes. In a
choice the Moral Majority will love, Scott Thomas must be content
with an erotic waltz and a very long drive back to Manhattan. No,
no, no, no, no. First the sex, then the drive home.

From someone whose judgment has rarely failed him, this is jaw-
dropping. Redford obviously believes that his beloved vistas, homilies
about ranching life, the mysterious horse fixing and his own burnished
image will carry the day. You can only hope he didn't bet the farm.

Beatty, on the other hand, seems not to give a damn, and it's
irresistible. The irony here is that Beatty, supposedly the farceur,
the eternal ladies' man, only lately domesticated, has in some circles
been taken less seriously than Redford. Well, Redford had Sundance,
Beatty had Madonna. Now Beatty has Annette Bening and
Madonna's poster artist—who says the man's not smart?

Yet it's Beatty who has dug down into his disgust and disillusion at
what he sees around him, and found a way to give it a voice. To
call Bulworth "tragic farce," as Beatty likes to, is a mite high-falutin',
but it's as astringently un-PC as its poster drawing. Its wildest
conceit finds J. Bullington Bulworth, a morally bankrupt ex-liberal
senator, truth-telling in hip-hop after he's spiraled into a breakdown.
OK, it's pretty excruciating white man rap, but as social commentary
it's blunt and slashingly funny.

The noted black Harvard historian Henry Louis Gates Jr., in giving
his crucial OK to Bulworth in The New Yorker, suggested that it
plays "as if Beatty had optioned the film rights to a month's worth
of editorials in The Nation." (In case anyone thought Gates had
lost it, he also said that Bulworth's rap sounded "like a pissed-off
Edgar Guest.")

There's no precedent for Bulworth, a genie that may have been
bottled up a very long time. What some people forget is that it
comes from an utterly fearless actor. Because Beatty didn't look
to the screen for his image, he could be impotent in Bonnie and
Clyde, dim in the razor-sharp Shampoo, and an ineffective
jackrabbit of a loser in McCabe and Mrs. Miller.

Of course, in Bulworth he does have the chutzpah to have
Halle Berry choose his sorry 61-year-old self over every other
man she's ever met. Pure reflex, I guess.

[HWBL]

The ONLY promotional interview Warren did for Reds, I believe especially for European media.

Interview Warren BEATTY - Ina - Archives pour tous

[Mira]

You know how some things stay with you? I can remember seeing that movie on Van Ness Avenue in San Francisco with 2 of my friends... damn thing was so long and I had to PEE really bad and it was an important time in the story... so I held it, and held it and held it until the intermission. At that time, movies had hardly ever had an intermission, it was one of the first. That was one great movie.

[HWBL]

Originally Posted by Soth

Quick peek at wazzas (Ill never stop being an Aussie...Im sorry Warren's, will I).... new movie......and it looks great

YouTube - The Hoax Trailer

Enjoy

I'm sorry but I fail to see the connection with my dear Warren, other than that he once wanted to make a biopic on Hughes. He never really had anything to do with Clifford Irving, personally. Nor does he, as far as I'm aware, have any productional ties to this movie.

[Soth]

Gere / Beatty - opps too much

I promise never to sully your dear one again

Or drink

I will now remove the offending post at let be only a fuzzy memory of something idiotic I will, in your eyes never live down.

I will bow and scrape retreating back to whence I came

[HWBL]

Just found a cute little clip of Warren and Natalie Wood in 1962, while visiting the Cannes Film Festival. I have no idea what the French voice over says, so anybody with any language of the language is welcome to shed some light.

Arrivée à Cannes de Warren BEATTY [ 25 ans] et Natalie WOOD [ 24 ans ] - Ina - Archives pour tous

[HWBL]

Warren Beatty, 70 years old today

One of the last true idols, icons, handsome leading men.
One of the last true multi-talents: actor, director, writer and producer.
One of only 2 people to be nominated in four Oscar categories in one year,
the other was Orson Wells.
The ONLY person to have four nominations in separate Oscar categories in
one year, TWICE.
As far as I'm concerned, the ONLY person in Hollywood history to combine
talent, beauty, athleticism, intelligence and integrity all in one gorgeous
package. Prejudiced? Who, moi? Never.

Warren, the child and little brother.





Warren, the new movie sensation.





Warren, the industry changer.





Warren, the ladies man.




Warren, his other love: politics





Warren, his friends.







Warren, the family man.




Warren Beatty, Warren Beauty, at any age.

[Mira]

Woo Hoo! He does rock! Thanks for posting all this continually HWBL!

Happy Birthday Warren Beatty!

[VenusInFauxFurs]

Happy b'day Warren. Thanks HWBL for that great collage of pics!

[Raspberry gashes]

Happy 40th (hehe, ) Birthday Warren Beatty!

He looks so damn good for his age!!!

[Soth]

Happy Birthday Mr Beatty.....you know where your presents are.......