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Warren Beatty: Life
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[R]enowned for his contributions to cinema and to politics, Warren Beatty is among the most versatile and gifted figures in Hollywood. On the lecture stage he is a passionate and compelling speaker, whether discussing his life in film or addressing the political issues—state, national and global—that most deeply concern him.
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Beatty's lifelong interest in politics motivated 1998's arch satire "Bulworth," about a disillusioned liberal politician who goes so far as to take out a contract on himself. In 2001, he came back as Diane Keaton's cheating husband in "Town & Country," which was both a critical and commercial failure. However, the film gave Beatty the chance to utter the self-aware line, "I'm not a kid, and I know now no amount of empty philandering is going to make me feel like one."
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In 1984, and again in 1988, Beatty was to play a similar role in Hart's own presidential campaigns. Hart, who had, by that time, become a senator himself, had become friends with Beatty during the 1972 campaign and the relationship had grown closer during the intervening decade. After Hart's second campaign imploded over allegations that he had committed adultery with a former beauty queen named Donna Rice, a mutual friend of the two explained why they were so close: "Gary always wanted to have Warren's life and Warren always wanted to have Gary's. It was a match made in heaven".
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After Ishtar, Warren took a break from the Hollywood scene. "I wanted to live life, so I've tried to have a life and not walk around, as Cary Grant once said to me, tripping on cables on sound stages," he explained.
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* Aerosmith lead singer Steven Tyler surprised the congregation at the Church of Today in Warren on Sunday when he dropped in to sing his rendition of Amazing Grace. Tyler said he overcame a troubled period in his life by listening to inspirational tapes by church minister Marianne Williamson, whom he invited to an Aerosmith concert while he was in town. She returned the favor by inviting him to church.
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Now, at 69, nobody is aging better than Beatty, who obsesses as much over a healthy lifestyle as over his creative endeavors. Says Towne, who has collaborated with Beatty more than anyone, "There's just no detail of a film that is going to escape his questioning and figuring out how to make it better."
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