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Yesterday, the New York Post published excerpts from Peter Biskind’s biography of Warren Beatty called Star: How Warren Beatty Seduced America (here for The Post‘s excerpts). The Post not only published excerpts, they did an interview with Biskind (a Hollywood institution on his own) about the allegedly “authorized biography” of Beatty. Biskind claimed that even though Beatty had refused to sit down for extensive interviews about his life (and sexual conquests) previously, Biskind formed a “surprising friendship” with Beatty, and Beatty “agreed to an authorized biography, dishing on his long list of leading ladies.”
Unfortunately, before we got a chance to really pour over all of the interesting/sleazy information, Beatty’s attorney sent a statement to the Huffington Post denying that the biography is authorized:
In a statement to the Huffington Post, Warren Beatty’s attorney, Bertram Fields, denies that Peter Biskind’s new book, “Star: How Warren Beatty Seduced America,” was authorized by the actor:
“Mr. Biskind’s tedious and boring book on Mr. Beatty was not authorized by Mr. Beatty and should not be published as an authorized biography,” Fields says. “It contains many false assertions and purportedly quotes Mr. Beatty as saying things he never said. Other media should not repeat things from the book on the assumption that they are true or that the book is an authorized biography.”
[From The Huffington Post]
So, Beatty’s in a snit. I actually believe Beatty and his lawyer though – Beatty has never done any kind of tell-all, so why would he start now? My guess is that he and Biskind were friends, and Biskind knew some stories, and heard some stories, and began piecing together a book. And what a book - Biskind “estimates” that Beatty slept with “12,775 women, give or take, a figure that does not include daytime quickies, drive-bys, casual gropings, stolen kisses and so on.” Mother of…!
Because I love tawdry gossip, and I have an affection for old Hollywood, especially the 1960s-1970s era stuff, I’ll do some highlights from Biskind’s biography. First, note this – Biskind actually did sit down and interview some of Beatty’s most famous former lovers. So, it actually might be a good read. Okay, let’s see. There was Jane Fonda, one of Beatty’s first Hollywood conquests. In a quote attributed to Beatty, he says Fonda’s sexual prowess came from “her ability to virtually unhinge her jaw, like a python that swallows prey much larger than itself.” Gross. Beatty then dropped Fonda for Joan Collins, who, Biskind writes: “He made love to Collins relentlessly… But for Collins, it was too much of a good thing. One Sunday morning, exhausted, she stumbled out of bed. Dragging on a forbidden cigarette, she said, ‘I don’t think I can last much longer. He never stops — it must be all those vitamins he takes . . . In a few years, I’ll be worn out.’ Later, a skeptic asked her if they really had sex seven times a day. She replied, ‘Maybe he did, but I just lay there.’”
There also anecdotes about Beatty’s relationship with Julie Christie, and how Beatty cheated on her constantly (like, daily). Also, Beatty had an appetite for anything unusual – he propositioned a pregnant Carole King just because “he’d never been with a late-term woman and wanted to see what it was like.” He also agreed to sleep with a woman recovering from a mastectomy. After Julie Christie, his next high-profile relationship was with Diane Keaton, who describes him as “overwhelming in every way.” Of course, she had just gotten out of a relationship with Woody Allen, so I would imagine Beatty would genuinely “overwhelm” her. Biskind also gets into his relationships with Madonna and Janice Dickinson, but that’s when I got tired of his conquests. The Post has much more here.
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So multiply that 7x for the theoretical partners of all 13,000 women and his STD’s are off the charts!
There’s no way he would’ve been able to father any children with Annette Bening since his @#$% should’ve fallen off by now!
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Talk about a lack of affect. This man’s facial expression has barely changed in 40 yrs.
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What is his lawyer writing a letter about? He should be proud of the fact that he was able to get that many women and not die of AIDS. Even though I believe the number is exaggerated, I doubt he counted every conquest in a book next to his bedside.
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never got the attraction of this man…it’s all about him. he’d bore me stiff. ha.
PS: it’s “pore over” not “pour over”.
http://www.yourdictionary.com/pore
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Kids, kids, kids….
STDs, back in the day were not life threatening. I’m sure he had a good Urologist on retainer. He’s been married since 1992. Prior to the mid 80′s, sex was far more carefree and dare I say it fun. Warren was the poster boy for the sexual revolution of the 60′s and 70′s. He’s been married and by all accounts faithful since his marriage. He and Wilt Chamberlain may be the all time champions in the number of women shagged. It was a different era! Watch the classic movie Shampoo to see Warren make fun of his prowess and proclivities.
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Another actor who I never have thought was that attractive or that good on screen.
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Watch ‘Heaven Can Wait’. Every bit of his appeal is right there.
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Other wonderful Beatty films are: ‘Splendor In The Grass’, and ‘Bonnie and Clyde’.
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I can understand what everyone else is saying, but I think I’m with Tess. He’s a narcissist with emotional availability and intimacy issues. He may be a faithful & supportive partner to Annette Bening and a good father to their children, but I kinda doubt it unless he had a ton of therapy.
Gross.
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He was hot in “Shampoo.” But he was a tad smarmy and annoying in everything else I’ve seen him in, especially “Bonnie & Clyde,” which upon re-watching recently, I found decidedly lame.
That sure is a LARGE number! Whether that bio is “authorized” or not, I bet there’s some truth to it. Guess he had a whole lotta fun back in the day!
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365 X 35 = 12775. So the book is estimating a different woman every single day for 35 YEARS. Doubtful. And gross.
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So, he sucked so bad in bed that over 12,000 women didn’t stick around for a 2nd round.
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I loved him in Heaven Can Wait and Splendor in the Grass; I don’t know if it was the hideous perm, but Julie Christie looked like she was 20 years older than him in the movie. Natalie Woods though.. ah, my love for her is immense, even though her personal life was a little iffy near the end.
I don’t doubt that he’s a indiscriminate slut who probably has had a laundry list of STDs and he’s pretty much a pig for talking about his partners (go Joan, I love that quote), but that’s a ridiculously unbelievable, surely uncorroborated number, leaked to push book sales.
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He probably had many women in his life (he was a beauty in the past and he’s famously brainy), but this number is highly exagerated. It’s humanly impossible to f*ck so many people in one lifetime.
To reach this number, Warren would have to stop eating, sleeping and working. Which is impossible, because he’s a normal human being and a workaholic (the guy wrote, directed, produced, starred in most of his films. That’s some hard and time consuming work).
This bio is bullsh*t. Warren has never been a kiss-and-tell kind of guy. I know a lot about his life, and from what I remember, he never said a word about anyone he slept with and he never bragged about his conquests. This is something that his pals Jack Nicholson or Dennis Hopper would do, but not him. He’s very protective of his intimacy. He’d never authorize a book like this.
And it’s stupid to think that Buskind would be able to estimate the number of sexual partners Beatty had. How on earth would he know? I bet not even Beatty knows. I suppose he never counted.
And, we have to consider that there are many “starf*ckers” out there who claim relationships they never had, just to be linked to someone famous. This sort of thing just reminds me of Lindsay Lohan saying she was BFF with Natalie Portman, for instance.
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That’s a lot of mileage on one weiner.
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Wow, he was hot back in the day! And Joan Collins doesn’t look much different either. Whomever did her work should be shouting from the rooftops.
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Gross! Very vain man! Never did see the
attraction myself. Proposition to Carole – by the way – she turned him down, what a classless pig he was!
She has more class in her pinkie than he would or ever could have! Annette -
too bad i like her..
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