Warren Beatty [Actor]

[HWBL]

Originally Posted by Raspberry gashes

No worries at all. I actually think of you whenever I see a Warren movie now, or read about him

Aaaawww, that is sweet. Or rather scary. Depends on from whose
perspective you interpret it.

Originally Posted by Raspberry gashes

He looks fantastic for his age- the guy had it lucky in the looks department all his life!

I guess so. ^ There he is, smiling in his teens, his twens, his thirties,
forties, fifties and sixties! (last pic of 2006)

Originally Posted by Raspberry gashes

I thought i was at least close with the initials; what do they stand for? Or is it something private? If not, I'd like to know. I'm a curious one.

I'm sorry, but yeah: it's a private thing that I'd rather keep that way.

[Raspberry gashes]

^Well i didn't mean to scare ya, it just means that you're the biggest Warren fan i know!

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Originally Posted by Raspberry gashes

^Well i didn't mean to scare ya, it just means that you're the biggest Warren fan i know!

Well, like I said earlier in this thread:
what can I say, I'm a Warren Beatty addict!

YouTube Video

^I found this clip of Heaven Can Wait on YouTube, dubbed in Italian.
Warren has never sounded so grown-up with his real voice

Compare with the original that I posted myself,
the same bit starts around the 5:50 mark.

YouTube Video

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Ah, yes, a little bit of Warren for the week-end!

[MrsDark]

Call me weird, but the fact that he's settled down with one woman now kind of makes him hotter to me.

[Chalet]

I'm so impressed how HWBL comes up with more pictures!

If WB and Natalie Wood had a kid, fuggettaboutit.

[HWBL]

^You're welcome. It ain't getting any easier, though, I tell ya.
So, if anybody has (especially vintage) photos of Warren Beauty,
DO post them or send them over through PM!!!
I'm getting near the bottom of my treasure chest (sighs of
relief are heard all around GR!!!!! )

Yeah, Warren and Natalie, Pint and Half Pint, Blue Eyes and Brown Eyes:
what indeed would their kids have looked like?
Wasn't there some morphing program somewhere, where you could
upload two photos and then they would get mixed?
I'd love to upload pix of WB with his partners and see the outcome
of what might have been........

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YAAAAAAYYYYYYYYY!!!!! Over 50.000 views!!!!
(and not even by me alone!)
That's worth another picture of this rare piece of excellent eye candy!

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Cute teaser clip for the upcoming release of the
ultimate collector's edition of Bonnie & Clyde:

Amazon.com : Entertainment : Bonnie and Clyde anniversary clip

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Found an old interview with Robert Benton, co-writer of Bonnie & Clyde,
on-line. Here's the part on how the movie came about and some stuff
about Warren, too.

Source: The Hollywood Interview: Robert Benton: The Hollywood Interview
Original source: March 1998 issue of Venice Magazine

Tell us about meeting David Newman and Bonnie and Clyde.
David Newman was a young editor at Esquire. He was an incredibly
gifted writer, a good friend, and we both loved movies. I spun in
these sort of dreams of glory of the life of a screenwriter and we
decided to write a movie together. And by chance, we were both
reading a book by a man named John Toland on John Dillinger.
In that book there's a footnote about Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow.
My father had gone to their funeral. He was an absolutely straight-
arrow upright man, wouldn't cross the street if the light was red but,
he was a closet criminal. He had a brother who was a gangster, at
least according to family legend.
I grew up with all these stories about Bonnie and Clyde. So I started
telling David all these stories about them. So we decided to write an
American New Wave film for Truffaut to direct, since we loved his films.
We didn't know how to write a screenplay, so we wrote a treatment,
which was about 80 pages long, and I've still got it somewhere, and
through a woman named Helen Scott, who was a friend of Truffaut's,
got it to him...he liked it.
Truffaut came to New York, sat in a hotel room for two days with us,
Helen was there as translator, and gave us the only lessons we ever
had in screenwriting. He said he would like to do Bonnie and Clyde if
he didn't do Fahrenheit 451, which he did wind up doing, so he gave
the script to his good friend Jean-Luc Goddard.
Goddard came over to the States and said "I would like to do this film,
but I'm supposed to do a film called Alphaville, which I don't want to
do. I'll get out of it." Alphaville, of course, is now one of the greatest
films ever made!
The people who had optioned the script and had given us money to
do more research and have more time to write it, didn't have any more
money. They were doing something that's customary in the U.S., which
is, you option a script, get that script to a director, from there go to
an actor. The actor says 'yes' and then you go to a studio.
Goddard was used to the European way where the producer is really
the finance man and has the money when you have the script and
you just go right away. So Goddard says "Let's go make the movie now.
I'll go back to Paris and come back in six weeks and we'll do it."
So those people were stuck. In hindsight, they should have been more
straightforward up front. They said to Goddard, "Look, this movie takes
place in the summer. Wouldn't it be better to wait until the summer?"
Goddard said "I'm talking cinema, and you're talking meteorology." And
he walked out of the room.
So the picture just sat. It was submitted to every studio and countless
directors for close to four years. It was turned down by everybody.
Meanwhile, I'd gotten married. David and I would joke about how we
were going to be 85 years-old and still slogging this script around! (laughs)
One day Truffaut had lunch with Warren Beatty and told Warren
about Bonnie and Clyde. Warren called me and...said he'd come
over and pick up a copy of the script. Now my wife and I hadn't
even been married six months. She opens the door, and there
was Warren! (laughs) Her knees almost buckled.
So Warren read the script and said he wanted to do it. I'm really
very proud of that script, but it was Warren, and this is a great
example of a collaboration, Warren and (director) Arthur (Penn)
together, are really responsible for that picture. I can't tell you
what a strong influence Warren was in making that picture. They
were both just in the top of their form. And Bob Towne came
in and did some work on the script, also. It was one of those times
where it just worked.

What happened after it was released?
I remember turning to my wife after seeing a rough cut and just
being thrilled with it, and saying "Look, as much as we love this
picture, it's gonna come and go. It's a movie, it's gonna open, be
gone three weeks later. Don't get upset about it. Well it opened,
and it got the worst reviews you've ever seen. The Times,
Newsweek, everyone. Just vicious.
The only person who gave it a good review was Penelope Gilliat in
The New Yorker. Then critics started to slowly reverse themselves
and recant their original reviews. Warren got Warners to rerelease
the picture. Then we got the Time cover story. Then by early '68,
it was an enormous hit in Europe...and we were all nominated for
Academy Awards. All our friends told us we were going to win. What
we didn't realize then because we hadn't been nominated before, is
that everyone's friends tell them that they're going to win! That year
the Academy Awards were held at the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium,
which is a big, flat sort of set-up, not raised like the Shrine...
We got to the part of the ceremony where our names were called.
I started fixing my cuffs, doing my tie, remembering who to thank...
and they started reading off the nominees. "And the winner is..."
and I stood up, the only person standing up in this huge crowd, and
I hear "William Rose, for Guess Who's Coming to Dinner? (laughs)
You've never seen anybody sit down so fast! Subsequently, when
I've won, I'm always very careful and ask my wife "Did I hear right?
It's okay to stand up now?" (laughs) It's funny, because the whole
experience with Bonnie and Clyde was like being run over by a train.
It was just too much. And I became very depressed afterward, probably
because I thought it was all downhill from there.

[Chalet]

I just read a great article in Vanity Fair about Joni, Carly and Carole in the early '70's. In the same year, that Carly Simon dated Cat Stevens, Warren, James Taylor, and Mick Jagger. Any pictures of Carly and WB?

[HWBL]

Originally Posted by Chalet

I just read a great article in Vanity Fair about Joni, Carly and Carole in the early '70's. In the same year, that Carly Simon dated Cat Stevens, Warren, James Taylor, and Mick Jagger. Any pictures of Carly and WB?

Not even a single one......
The fun part is that most of the lyrics of that song
can't even apply to the WB of that period: he didn't
own his own car until he was 35 (1972), did not own
a house until he was almost 38 (late 1974), never
owned a plane etc. etc.
To me, long before I knew WB was one of the suspects,
the tune always was the "woman scorned anthem", if
anything.

Lyrics You're so vain by horseface Carly Simon

You walked into the party like you were walking onto a yacht
Your hat strategically dipped below one eye
Your scarf it was apricot
You had one eye on the mirror as you watched yourself gavotte
And all the girls dreamed that they'd be your partner
They'd be your partner, and...

You're so vain, you probably think this song is about you
You're so vain, I'll bet you think this song is about you
Don't you? don't you?

You had me several years ago when I was still quite naive
Well you said that we made such a pretty pair
And that you would never leave
But you gave away the things you loved and one of them was me
I had some dreams, they were clouds in my coffee
Clouds in my coffee, and...

I had some dreams they were clouds in my coffee
Clouds in my coffee, and...
Well I hear you went up to Saratoga and your horse naturally won
Then you flew your Lear jet up to Nova Scotia
To see the total eclipse of the sun
Well you're where you should be all the time
And when you're not you're with
Some underworld spy or the wife of a close friend
Wife of a close friend, and...

[Chalet]

I forgot to add Kris Kristofferson in that same year. I just grabbed the article. Carly had been writing the song towards the end of those affairs (James was the one she loved and was engaged to, but heroin got in the way - enter Jagger for a time. People kept saying you two look alike). So when WB "walked" into a party in LA, she got inspired and finished the song. She said he walked in and all the women's eyes were on him.

Unrelated gossip..Bianca Jagger called James Taylor to say that their fiancee's were having an affair. James denied it and they were married soon after that.

[HWBL]

Originally Posted by Chalet

I forgot to add Kris Kristofferson in that same year. I just grabbed the article. Carly had been writing the song towards the end of those affairs (James was the one she loved and was engaged to, but heroin got in the way - enter Jagger for a time. People kept saying you two look alike). So when WB "walked" into a party in LA, she got inspired and finished the song. She said he walked in and all the women's eyes were on him.

Unrelated gossip..Bianca Jagger called James Taylor to say that their fiancee's were having an affair. James denied it and they were married soon after that.

Who looked alike? Again: long before I knew Carly Simon went
with WB I saw her on TV and in a magazine and couldn't get
over how friggin' fugly she was and still is. She's like an experiment
that went wrong somewhere But: apparently she was in
high demand. I guess this filly gave rides away for free

[Chalet]

Now that was funny! People kept saying that Carly and Jagger looked alike.

And even more unrelated gossip is that I never knew that Michael Caine and Bianca Jagger were an item pre-Jagger. Bianca and Shakira Caine looked alike too. Talk about having a type.