Can't get enough of Kathy Griffin? Jul 6, 2008
"Kathy Griffin: My Life on the D-List - The Complete First Season": This two-disc set of the Emmy-nominated first season of Griffin's Bravo reality show, which began in 2005 and is still going strong, offers six episodes featuring her encounters with celebrities such as Marcia Cross of "Desperate Housewives," Warren Beatty, Ray Romano and Jenny McCarthy. Bonus features include a preview of Season 2 (which won the Emmy for outstanding reality program) and one of Griffin's stand-up specials. (San Francisco Chronicle -- Entertainment)
The return of the black helicopters Jul 1, 2008
So, on the one hand, actor Warren Beatty looks foolish railing about Google's power to record almost every Internet search in the world. On the other hand, well, you get the picture. (Boston Globe)
Movie: Rosemary's Baby (1968) Jun 28, 2008
And for the guys: Jack Nicholson, Richard Chamberlain, Warren Beatty, James Fox and Laurence Harvey. Budget, Filming Locations. (Suite101.com)
Rip-roarin Wanted is a Cant Miss Jun 23, 2008
My favorite Warren Beatty film is probably Bonnie and Clyde, but I also liked him in Spendor in the Grass ... The American Film Institute obviously feels the same way, and has honored him with a lifetime achievement award in A Tribute to Warren Beatty. (MSNBC -- News)
Al Pacino, Diane Keaton in Backstage Soap Opera Jun 17, 2008
How did Al Pacino and Diane Keaton even exist together for a minute backstage at the AFI Tribute to Warren Beatty in Hollywood on Thursday night. (See Friday s column for my first report from this extraordinary event. (Fox News)
Pop Tarts: Kellie Pickler 'Blessed' to Have Been Abandoned by Parents Jun 17, 2008
Kendra Wilkinson Celebrates Her 23rd Birthday With Warren Beatty. Hugh Hefner s girlfriend Kendra Wilkinson (as well as his two other leading ladies Holly Madison and Bridget Marquardt) stepped out in old Hollywood 00004000 style on Thursday evening to pay tribute to the iconic Warren Beatty, who received AFI s 36th Lifetime Achievement Award. (Fox News)
Hoffman to buy diners' food Jun 17, 2008
Actor Dustin Hoffman smiles in the audience during the 36th AFI Life Achievement Award tribute to Warren Beatty held at the Kodak Theatre on June 12, 2008 in Hollywood, California. (Frazer Harrison, Getty Images). (FOX23 News, NY)
Beatifying Beatty Jun 16, 2008
Actor Warren Beatty, wife Annette Bening and sister Shirley MacLaine in the audience during the 36th AFI Life Achievement Award tribute. Al Pacino, Dustin Hoffman, Diane Keaton, Faye Dunaway and Robert Downey Jr. were among the stars who graced the Kodak Theater stage Thursday to toast and slightly roast their friend, Warren Beatty, as he received the 36th AFI Life Achievement Award. (Variety)
Film Critic Dad Gives Son an Unusual Education Jun 16, 2008
Another film Jesse studied was the famous flop "Ishtar." The movie, starring Warren Beatty and Dustin Hoffman, encompassed a deeply personal point. "Here is a lovely movie that got a bad rap, and people accepted the bad rap as 'the truth,' the same way they did when [Jesse] dropped out of high school," said David. (ABC News)
Beatty receives lifetime award Jun 15, 2008
HOLLYWOOD -- No one makes a speech like Warren Beatty ... AFI Lifetime Achievement Award Recipient Warren Beatty speaks during the 36th AFI Life Achievement Award tribute to Warren Beatty held at the Kodak Theatre on June 12, 2008 in Hollywood, California. (AZCentral -- Entertainment)
Anne Thompson sets the record straight Jun 15, 2008
The smartest movie stars--Clint Eastwood, Warren Beatty, Mel Gibson, Robert Redford, George Clooney and others--have figured out how to take control of their careers. Instead of fighting with studios over final cut, they earn it. (Variety)
R. Kelly trial ends in acquittal Jun 14, 2008
Clinton lauds Beatty Former President Bill Clinton was among those saluting Warren Beatty as the Oscar-winning actor-director received a lifetime achievement award from the American Film Institute. "Over all these decades, you have shared with us, as moviegoers, this insatiable hunger for life," Clinton said during Thursday night's ceremony at the Kodak Theatre. (Boston Globe)
Warren Beatty receives AFI Life Achievement Award Jun 14, 2008
By Susan King, Los Angeles Times Staff Writer June 14, 2008 No one makes a speech like Warren Beatty. He was in prime form Thursday night when he accepted the 36th annual American Film Institute Life Achievement Award at the Kodak Theatre where he managed to be simultaneously focused and scattered, funny and touching. (Los Angeles Times)
'Hulk' Lampooned Jun 14, 2008
It was the most star-studded Hollywood lovefest in some time Thursday night as the American Film Institute honored Warren Beatty with a lifetime achievement award at the Kodak Theater ... But in fact, I always wanted to be Warren Beatty ... " However: in recalling the landmark film she made with Beatty, Reds, for which she received an Oscar nomination, Keaton talked about the famous reunion-at-the-train-station scene near the film s end. It s my favorite few minutes of anything I ve done on... (Fox News)
Beatty gets AFIs lifetime achievement award Jun 14, 2008
Kevin Winter / Getty Images for AFIActor Warren Beatty was honored with the 36th AFI Life Achievement Award on June 12 inHollywood, Calif ... LOS ANGELES - Bill Clinton was among those saluting Warren Beatty as the Oscar-winning actor-director received a lifetime achievement award from the American Film Institute ... The 36th Life Achievement Award: A Tribute to Warren Beatty is scheduled to air June 25 on the USA Network. (MSNBC -- News)
Warren Beatty honored with lifetime achievement award by the American Film Institute Jun 14, 2008
Bill Clinton was among those saluting Warren Beatty as the Oscar-winning actor-director received a lifetime achievement award from the American Film Institute. "Over all these decades, you have shared with us, as moviegoers, this insatiable hunger for life," the former president said during Thursday night's ceremony at the Kodak Theatre. (International Herald Tribune -- Arts)
Chicago actress enjoys Tony attention Jun 13, 2008
"Warren Beatty and Annette Bening came to the show and said he was going to direct the movie version," she says of "August: Osage County." "He was going to use the entire cast." Later, Beatty said he'd like to be a consultant on the film version. "We're all painfully aware that we won't be in any film of this. But this is very much a theatrical beast...the theater can give it a lot of stuff that would be lost on film.". (Sioux City Journal, IO)
Stars Pay Tribute to Warren Beatty at AFI Gala - ET Jun 13, 2008
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You Don't Mess With The Zohan Review Jun 12, 2008
June 5, 2008 - If James Bond was an Israeli commando who secretly aspired to be Warren Beatty in Shampoo then he would be Adam Sandler's title character in the new comedy You Don't Mess With the Zohan. The Zohan (Sandler), a celebrity of sorts in his native Israel, is a terrorist-killin' sex machine who gets high-fives whenever he strolls down the beach. (IGN FilmForce)
Adam Sandler cuts to the chase in 'Zohan' Jun 6, 2008
He never admits it, but his hero appears to be Warren Beatty in "Shampoo," not Mitchell. Alas, the hair isn't all that's a mess. (Boston Globe)
Tom Cruise's Runaway Mom 'Dead' to Friends Jun 2, 2008
Annette Bening, as I predicted would happen when Warren Beatty lunched with the film's producer Mick Jagger, is also in talks. She's perfect for this movie. (Yahoo News -- Celebrity Couples)
The hairdresser continues to play a key part in films Jun 1, 2008
Warren Beatty, in his best performance, plays George Roundy, a Los Angeles celebrity stylist juggling three women. Men think he's gay. (Boston Globe)
Salon selectives: Highlights from hairdressing at the movies Jun 1, 2008
Beautician: George Roundy (Warren Beatty). Atmosphere: A Watergate-era funk. (Boston Globe)
Movie: Bonnie and Clyde (1967) Jun 1, 2008
Warren Beatty, Faye Dunaway & Gene Hackman Star in Gangster Film. Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway had the title roles in director Arthur Penn's 1967 gangster classic, Bonnie and Clyde ... Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway portrayed the psychotic killers, with Gene Hackman, Estelle Parsons and Michael J. Pollard in criminal support. (Suite101.com)
Dreamgirls Wins Big at the Golden Globes Jun 1, 2008
Tom Hanks points out that Warren Beatty, this year's winner, won his Most Promising Newcomer Golden Globe in 1962. I'm still trying to figure out why Hanks, who has never appeared onscreen with Beatty, is presenting the award. (Yahoo News -- Golden Globe Awards)
Summer DVDviewing guide May 27, 2008
Bulworth (1998) - A despondent senator (Warren Beatty) orders his own assassination, then decides he's finally free to speak the truth on the campaign trail. It's a biting satire of political pretenses and the divide between Black and White. (AZCentral -- Entertainment)
Sydney Pollack, American film director, is dead at 73 May 27, 2008
Pollack's career defined an era in which big stars (Robert Redford, Barbra Streisand, Warren Beatty) and the filmmakers who knew how to wrangle them (Barry Levinson, Mike Nichols) retooled the Hollywood system. Savvy operators, they played studio against studio, staking their fortunes on pictures that served commerce without wholly abandoning art. (International Herald Tribune)
The poetry-film connection May 26, 2008
Splendor in the Grass : William Inge is known more as a playwright, but he scripted Elia Kazan's 1961 movie about two star-crossed young lovers (Natalie Wood and Warren Beatty). The title comes from a line in William Wordsworth's unforgettable Ode: Intimations of Immortality From Recollections of Early Childhood. (San Diego Union-Tribune)
Hal Ashby's films are tributes to the underdog May 25, 2008
Other Ashby films of this era are Being There, a deadpan parable in which Peter Sellars, at the top of his game, epitomizes the Ashby "innocent abroad"; Shampoo (1975), with Warren Beatty as a hairdressing lothario; and Bound for Glory (1976), a biopic of folk legend Woody Guthrie starring David Carradine. With the exception of The Landlord, Bentara Budaya's season will feature all Ashby's films from the 1970s, and in chronological order too. (Jakarta Post, Indonesia -- Features)
Tyson's torture documented in film May 24, 2008
The two have been longtime friends, first meeting 23 years ago at a Manhattan party that was attended by Warren Beatty and former Democratic presidential candidate Gary Hart. (The party was associated with the filming of the movie "The Pick-Up Artist," starring Robert Downey Jr.). (Atlanta Journal-Constitution)
The soundtrack of a generation May 20, 2008
"Of course, the men playing opposite these highly uncommon women form a remarkable cast themselves Taylor plus Kris Kristofferson, Warren Beatty, Mick Jagger, Cat Stevens, Leonard Cohen, Jackson Browne, David Crosby and Graham Nash, to name a few. With all that pre-AIDS free love floating around, Girls Like Us offers readers endless saucy hook-ups, break-ups and high dramas while cracking a few mysteries about who, exactly, inspired such salacious gems as Simon's "You're So Vain" and... (Toronto Star)
Hollywood boys who just don't want to grow up May 16, 2008
A few, notably Jack Nicholson, Warren Beatty and Clint Eastwood, seem to have accepted the idea that their leading man status is now well behind them. Beatty is now a sort of elder statesman in Hollywood. (Globe and Mail -- Entertainment)
WHO'S YOUR HERO? May 13, 2008
Warren Beatty is also reportedly considering a second DICK TRACY movie. - Advertisement. (Gaylord Herald Times, MI)
Critic's corner May 12, 2008
Comcast, Free MoviesGleefully and stylishly, this big, slick gangster movie starring Warren Beatty feasts on the fact that mobster Bugsy Siegel and Hollywood were made for each other. A killer visionary, he repackaged the movies' promise of self-reinvention in Las Vegas after selling to himself first. (Boston Globe)
'An A picture in the style of a B movie' May 10, 2008
Steven Spielberg, already the uber-director of Jaws and Close Encounters Of The Third Kind, lost to Warren Beatty (Reds) as best director. What producer Frank Marshall described as an A picture in the style of a B movie - combining the talents of Spielberg and another of Hollywood's most successful film-makers, executive producer George Lucas - became a cultural landmark. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
Barbara Walters on the prowl May 8, 2008
PEOPLE ARE talking about the San Francisco Film Festival where Warren Beatty showed up to salute his co-writer Robert Towne for a lifetime of achievement. They replayed their 1975 film "Shampoo," which onlookers dubbed as being as fresh as tomorrow. (Variety)
Walters becomes first female co-anchor May 8, 2008
They all get some ink in "Audition." So does Warren Beatty: Though it was decades ago, he still holds the honor of being the worst interview subject she ever faced. But you won't find a list of "and then I interviewed" in "Audition." Walters doesn't have the time for that. (San Francisco Chronicle)
S.F. Film Festival gala gets political May 4, 2008
There was a momentary groundswell at the San Francisco International Film Festival gala Thursday evening when somebody - OK, it was me - asked Warren Beatty if he'd run for president and pry his beloved Democratic Party out of its stalemate. "That would be a barrel of laughs," said Beatty, who flirted with a run for the White House in 2000. (San Francisco Chronicle)
Grieving Vanessa is bleakly beautiful May 3, 2008
Theatre: Vanessa Redgrave, alone in white, takes ownership of the National's Lyttelton stage for an hour-and-a-half (Daily Mail)
The Last Take May 2, 2008
Christa enjoyed the Hollywood life and parties, and according to her daughter hung out with lots of famous people, like Joe Namath, Mick Jagger, Warren Beatty and even the Shah of Iran. But as correspondent Maureen Maher reports, Christa also kept a "love diary," as well as tape recordings of her encounters with the rich and famous. (CBS News -- 48 Hours)
The Schwetty Balls of the Golden Globes May 2, 2008
While presenting the Cecil B. DeMille lifetime achievement award to Warren Beatty, Hanks said "balls." A lot ... "What balls this man has. And by balls, of course, I mean artistic vision and fortitude. What balls has Warren Beatty!" ... " Thank God, Tom Hanks and Mr. Borat spiced up an otherwise average evening. Too bad Warren Beatty only uses them 5 times on the screen in 40 years. Sasha is now the young reigning King of Scrotum! Psst... don't tell Helen Mirren who now owns the Royal Jewels!... (Yahoo News -- Golden Globe Awards)
John Cusack meshing art, politics May 2, 2008
The film was co-written by Cusack, Jeremy Pikser (who co-wrote the Warren Beatty political satire "Bulworth") and absurdist storyteller Mark Leyner ("My Cousin, My Gastroenterologist"). Cusack says he has no expectations that the film will be universally welcomed. (CNN -- Showbiz)
Can a $9,000 Birkin bag get you special treatment? Apr 22, 2008
It was in good company, because I could watch as, two tables over, Warren Beatty, Annette Bening and presumably their children ate dinner and took pictures. But at BLT Steak, the newest hot spot on the Sunset Strip, I stood for an hour in the bar section proudly displaying my Birkin while hoping to get seated, even though my group didn't have a reservation. (USA Today -- Life)
Sleepless In Seattle Apr 18, 2008
Rather than redo the story once again (Warren Beatty did so, most unwisely, in 1994), Ephron simply makes An Affair the romantic motif of a story about two lonely hearts trying to connect. Widowed Sam Baldwin (Tom Hanks) lives with his eight-year-old son, while Annie Reed (Meg Ryan) is about to be married, but still not 100% sure. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
In search of the good old nervous breakdown Apr 15, 2008
"It may have even garnered a certain cache, since celebrities and movie stars like Frances Farmer and Judy Garland were often described as having nervous breakdowns, even when their problems might have more accurately been described as alcoholism or prescription drug abuse. In the 1961 Academy Award-winning movie, Splendor in the Grass, Natalie Wood plays a lovesick young woman from a small town in Kansas who is institutionalized after being abandoned by her boyfriend, a wealthy Yale... (MSNBC -- Terrorism)
Arriving baby, arriving Apr 13, 2008
Ben Affleck is musing about why Clint Eastwood and Warren Beatty are such gods to a younger generation of actors, especially actors trying their hand at directing, as Affleck has just done with new film Gone Baby Gone, when he gets to the nub of things. Of course Eastwood and Beatty are wise, talented men who've consistently made personal films, but Affleck knows there's something more compelling about their choices in life. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
Top 10 Rock Docs Apr 11, 2008
"She doesn't want to live off camera," wryly notes the evasive Warren Beatty of his then girlfriend Madonna, in 1990 the biggest superstar on the planet. It's the level of manipulation that makes Truth Or Dare so fascinating now: How much is La Ciccone really showing you. (IGN FilmForce)
Keeping the flame of Adler family's acting tradition Apr 11, 2008
His daughter Stella, an actress of aristocratic bearing, became a legend as a teacher, instructing or producing disciples who taught a top-drawer lineup: Robert De Niro, Warren Beatty, Harvey Keitel, Shelley Winters, Susan Sarandon, Martin Sheen, Mark Ruffalo and Benicio Del Toro. Ellen Adler, her daughter, is a painter but keeps her fingers in the theater world as executive chairman of the Stella Adler Studio of Acting in Manhattan. (International Herald Tribune)
The Mayor of Hell Apr 9, 2008
grudgingly green-lighted Arthur Penn's modestly budgeted crime drama Bonnie and Clyde for first-time producer Warren Beatty ... "I don't understand the whole thinking of Warren Beatty and Penn this era went out with Cagney.". (Slate)
Charlton Heston died at the age of 84 Apr 8, 2008
Bequeathing an ancient relic a gun to a pre-Neanderthal is an irony surely not lost on NRA zealot Heston who, earlier this year, appeared as a dangerous, rifle-toting nut case in the Warren Beatty comedy Town & Country. When one of Burton s primates sees a gun and asks, "Who would invent such a thing?" the obvious answer to the question resonates as Heston s private joke a punchline that hunts down liberal alarmists in their tracks. (New York Press)
For some movies, it's drearily ever after Apr 7, 2008
The Parallax View (1974): Reporter Joe Frady (Warren Beatty) investigates a senators assassination and finds a sinister connection to the Parallax Corporation, a monolithic company that is behind much of the bad stuff happening all over the world. He tries to stop another assassination attempt only to end up getting framed for it, and shot dead. (The Star Online, Malaysia)
Guy McElwaine, 71; was agent, studio chief Apr 4, 2008
In the 1960s, Mr. McElwaine owned a management and public relations company whose clients included Frank Sinatra, Warren Beatty, and The Mamas and The Papas. He later joined Creative Management Associates, an agency that was the forerunner to the powerful International Creative Management. (Boston Globe)
'Leatherheads': Football follies Apr 4, 2008
But we don't have to go back that far: 2005's "Good Night, and Good Luck," with its obvious political leanings (to the left, to the left) proved that Clooney is more like Warren Beatty. (He acts, he directs, he deflects the praise he seeks. (Boston Globe)
Forget fantasy, here are film's football stars Apr 4, 2008
Behind starter Crewe from "The Longest Yard" - the Burt Reynolds version, not Adam Sandler - our backups include three different characters: Warren Beatty from "Heaven Can Wait," Utah from "Point Break" and Foxx from "Any Given Sunday.". Movie fans will also note that our entire offensive line is morbidly obese, averaging about 425 pounds. (San Francisco Chronicle)
As Lowell prepares to host a major film shoot, locals line up to audition for parts as extras Apr 3, 2008
He said Warren Beatty, for example, was a vocal supporter. Still, Meehan said, he would be pleased to have a stop-and-chat with the cast. (Boston Globe)
Agent Guy McElwaine dies at 71 Apr 3, 2008
He began his showbiz career as a manager and publicist, working with clients such as Frank Sinatra, Judy Garland, Warren Beatty, The Righteous Brothers and The Mamas and the Papas. After his stint in public relations, he joined CMA, forerunner to today's ICM, in 1969, where he was the first agent to sign Steven Spielberg. (Variety)
A former Marine with misgivings about Bush and the bloodshed in Iraq Apr 3, 2008
I mentioned Warren Beatty, because without a script, he couldn't form a coherent sentence even if someone was whispering in his ear ... Warren Beatty for President. (Lodi News Sentinel, CA)
A risk-free revolution Apr 2, 2008
In Ten Days That Shook the World, American socialist John Reeds account of Vladimir Lenins November 1917 armed insurrection against the Provisional Government of Alexander Kerensky (later made into the Warren Beatty movie Reds in 1981), it is described how the new government of Bolshevik revolutionaries issued its first edicts on financial system reform. "It [the new government] will suppress immediately the great landed property, and transfer land to the peasants. It will establish workmen's... (Asia Times Online)
Joni's Life Attempt Apr 2, 2008
There s a lot more about Joni Mitchell s wild youth in Girls Like Us, including the news that she, like Carly Simon and several dozen other pretty stars of the era, had a fling with Warren Beatty. One of Mitchell s exes, Dave Naylor, tells Weller that another Court and Spark song, Same Situation, is about Beatty. (Fox News)
The leading ladies of the soft-rock '70s Apr 1, 2008
And Simon's personal life reportedly included Taylor (father of her two children), Jack Nicholson, Kris Kristofferson, Cat Stevens, film directors Terence Malick and Bob Rafelson, as well as mysterious flirtations with Mick Jagger and Warren Beatty. (Beatty comes off as the cad of the book, since he also reportedly chased Mitchell and King. (Boston Globe)
Usher, Perry will help mark Angelou's 80th Mar 29, 2008
Sunday: Actor Warren Beatty is 71. Musician Eric Clapton is 63. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution)
New on DVD: 'Bonnie and Clyde,' other dark treats Mar 28, 2008
Oscar nominations went to the five central actors (star/producer Warren Beatty, newcomer Gene Hackman, near-newcomer Faye Dunaway, Michael J. Pollard and supporting winner Estelle Parsons) ... Young guns: Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway in Bonnie and Clyde. (USA Today -- Life)
New DVDs: The Mist, The Kite Runner Mar 28, 2008
The 1967 film stars Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway in the title roles as the 30s crime couple, whose gang beats a bloody path across the Southwest on a robbery spree the graphic violence was a shocker for audiences 40 years ago. The movie is accompanied by two deleted scenes, a new behind-the-scenes documentary that examines how the film was made and marketed, and the History Channel special Love and Death: The Story of Bonnie and Clyde. (MSNBC -- Movies)
USA Network Starts Summer Off With a Bang and Continues With Year-Round Originals in Fall 2008 With The Starter Wife Mar 27, 2008
" Below please find a list of all USA's projects that will premiere and/or return in 2008: IN PLAIN SIGHT (NEW) Mary McCormack ("The West Wing," "Private Parts") stars as Mary Shannon, a U.S. Marshal working in the highly secretive branch of the witness protection program (WITSEC) who relocates Federal Witnesses -- many of whom are career criminals and others who are innocents that had the misfortune of witnessing a crime. They all have one thing in common -- someone wants them dead. Mary's job... (PR Newswire)
Filmmaker put focus on characters, story Mar 27, 2008
SHAMPOO (1975): A bright, light and still searing indictment of the sexual revolution, Shampoo stars Warren Beatty as a superstar hairdresser whose uncontrolled libido eventually brings him down. The film also stars Goldie Hawn, Carrie Fisher, Lee Grant and Julie Christie as the women with whom he has the occasional dalliance. (The Augusta Chronicle)
