Warren beatty biography book

Despite his much publicised love life, Warren Beatty has always guarded his privacy zealously, giving few interviews and asking his friends not to talk about him to the press. But now acclaimed biographer Suzanne Finstad has been able to obtain unprecedented interviews with friends such as Mike Nichols, Gary Hart and Senator George McGovern as well as former lovers like Joan Collins and Jane Fonda and to gain access to rare photographs, letters and diaries. The result is a fascinating and intimate portrait of one of Hollywood's key figures - actor, writer director, producer and, of course, legendary lothario. Finstad describes Beatty's upbringing, his early days playing the piano in New York cocktail lounges, his complex relationship with his older sister, Shirley MacLaine, and his romances with a iconic actresses from Joan Collins and Nathalie Wood to Julie Christie, Diane Keaton, Cher and Annette Bening, the woman he finally married. She also writ

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Warren Beatty: ‘I’ve had 16 books written about me. All baloney’

There's a photograph of Warren Beatty that I've often wondered about. In it, Nancy Reagan is beaming like a star-struck teenager. Warren Beatty is beside her. The occasion is a special White House screening of Reds, his formally daring biopic of John Reed, the American journalist who chronicled the Russian Revolution in the seminal book Ten Days That Shook the World.

Think about that. Reds. A major studio production, pre-glasnost, for which Beatty received the Academy Award for best director. And a box of cigars from fan-boy Fidel Castro. And, evidently, a warm reception from then US president Ronald Reagan. How on earth did he manage it?

"A 3½ hour movie about a communist who died," smiles Beatty, with an anti-pitch. "The last movie made with an intermission. I got it made because I had to. I came with a certain amount of commercial muscle. I had just made a movie called Heaven Can Wait. And it was a big hi

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Star: The Life and Wild Times of Warren Beatty

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Author: Peter Biskind

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In this compulsively readable and constantly surprising book, Peter Biskind, the author of the film classics Easy Riders, Raging Bulls and Down and smutsig eller oordnad Pictures, writes the most intimate, revealing, and balanced biography ever of Hollywood legend Warren Beatty. Famously a förmögna man, Beatty has also been one of the most ambitious and successful stars in Hollywood. Several Beatty films have passed the test of time, from Bonnie and Clyde to Shampoo, Heaven Can Wait, Reds (for which he won the best director Oscar), Bugsy, and Bulworth. Few filmgoers realize