I have such fond memories of Diane Keaton’s classic movies, including those she did with Woody Allen and especially the Godfather trilogy. Today, Diane’s new memoir, Then Again, within which she takes no pains in discussing what she perceives as her own shortcomings, hits bookstore shelves. The below excerpts touch upon her doomed romances with Woody Allen and Al Pacino, but the book itself also promises to discuss her relationships with Warren Beatty and Jack Nicholson as well as how she finally found herself, unconditional love, and motherhood at the age of 50 after adopting a son and daughter. The real kicker though? These details about Diane’s five years of struggling with bulimia:

On Her Eating Disorder: For breakfast each day, she’d shovel down a dozen buttered corn muffins, three fried eggs with bacon, pancakes and four glasses of chocolate milk. For lunch: three buttered steaks with charbroiled fat on the side, two-and-a-half baked potatoes with sour cream, apple pie and two chocolate sundaes with extra nuts.

Dinner almost defied belief: a bucket of Kentucky Fried Chicken, several orders of chips with blue cheese and ketchup, a couple of TV dinners, chocolate-covered almonds, a large bottle of 7Up, a pound of peanut brittle, M&Ms, mango juice, one Sara Lee pound cake, and three frozen banana-cream pies.

Eating and purging around 20,000 calories a day gave Diane heartburn, indigestion, irregular periods, low blood pressure and 26 cavities in her teeth. The psychological effects were arguably worse: she was using food to escape reality.

On Woody Allen: “We shared a love of torturing each other with our failures. He could sling out the insults, and so could I . . . His insights into my character were dead-on and — duh! — hilarious. I had him pegged as a cockroach you couldn’t kill.”

Keaton and Allen were together for a decade before splitting up in the late 1970s after building a body of work including the classics Sleeper, Love And Death, Annie Hall and Manhattan. In a bittersweet aside, Diane confesses: “I miss Woody. He’d cringe if he knew how much I care about him, but I’m smart enough not to broach the subject. I know he’s borderline repulsed by the grotesque nature of my affection. What am I supposed to do? I still love him.”

On Al Pacino: In 1997, she’d been nursing a crush — in this case for the 15 years since she’d starred with him in The Godfather, when they were both involved with other people. Al Pacino was, she says, consumed by two things: baseball and the theatre. And although they soon embarked on an affair, she suspected he viewed her more as someone he could talk to than as a lover. “I wanted more, lots more,” she admits. “I wanted him to want me as much as I wanted him. I wanted him to love me.” In 1990, when they flew to Rome to start filming Godfather III, she gave him an ultimatum: “Marry me, or at least commit to the possibility.” Clearly, his response was not what she’d hoped for: they broke up, got together again and went on to have another “dozen” break-ups. “Poor Al. Poor me — I never stopped insisting.”

[From Daily Mail]

Those details of Diane’s experience with bulimia are just staggering. I can’t even imagine how she hid the fact that she was eating (let alone purging) so bloody much food, especially since she managed to keep it all a secret while working on film sets too. And 26 cavities? Yikes. No wonder she’s gone the veneer route in such a major way these days.

Tonight, Diane appears on HLN’s “The Joy Behar Show,” in which she and Joy reminisce about working together in Manhattan Murder Mystery (at the height of the Woody/Mia/Soon Yi scandal). Oddly, Diane and Joy spend most of this clip talking about Woody’s hot bod:

[From HLN's The Joy Behar Show]

I do take slight issue with Diane’s continued confessions of love for Woody Allen. The guy is married, albeit to his adopted daughter, but still. Leave the man in his relative peace already. Now wasn’t Al Pacino quite the dreamboat back in the day? Damn.

Photos courtesy of Fame and AllMoviePhoto

In addition to the European MTV Awards, last night was also the big premiere of Morning Glory, the film everybody’s mom wants to see. Personally, I’ve already had to promise my mom that I’d take her to see it, and I doubt I’m the only one. It’s going to be epic – Harrison Ford as a curmudgeon, Canada’s Sweetheart Rachel McAdams, and Diane Keaton doing her silly best. Now, while I think the trailer looks good, I don’t really get how this film is being promoted. If I was in charge (if, if, if), I would be putting the emphasis on Rachel as the Everywoman, the next Julia Roberts/Reese Witherspoon type who can carry a rom-com on her own. I’d also add a dash of Oscar nomination “rumors” for Harrison, because he looks really interesting in this. What I would not do is encourage my leading lady, Rachel, to dress up like some kind of twitchy blonde bombshell. This premiere dress (Lanvin) and styling reeks of “trying too hard” and it makes me not like her. Plus, I just don’t care for her as a blonde.

Harrison looked like hell too. I know he’s Old and everything, but the hair and the earring… God, Harrison. Just slick back your hair and be the elder statesman that you are.

Diane looked cute though:

Photos courtesy of WENN & Fame.

Since we’ve already covered the worst and the Orange Goop of the Elle “Women In Hollywood” event, let’s be nice and cover some of the better dressed women of the evening. I should admit something, though – some of these women I like so much, I don’t even care what they’re wearing. Although, I have to admit – the ladies who have been in the business for more than a decade (in some cases, more than three decades), they know how to dress for an event. They know what is appropriate, and they know they don’t need a quick hit on a fashion blog that badly. Diane Keaton, up there with Harrison Ford, is one of my favorites. Her style is funky, but she’s been doing it so long that I appreciate the fact that she keeps it real. She’s not a ball-gown/cocktail dress kind of woman. Thank God. And Harrison looks cute too! I also loved what Annette Bening was wearing:

Classic, demure, age-appropriate, business-y, yet kind of sexy too! I want it.

I love Sofia Coppola’s outfit too – little Elle Fanning’s dress is kind of over the top and little-girlish, but hey, she’s a young girl. Stephen Dorff looks great!

Go, I just adore Mad Men’s Kiernan Shipka. She’s adorable. And this is the perfect little party dress for a young girl. So sweet!

I kind of hate this dress on Kat Dennings – the fit is off, the color is off, the makeup is off. And yet… I still really like her.

I think Diane Kruger looks stunning. Great little dress.

Speaking of stunning, look at Jodie Foster! Great, simple dress, and she’s not posing like a truck driver (like she often does). She looks fantastic.

I don’t love Hilary Swank’s dress. I find the whole thing kind of meh, especially the combo of her jewelry with the dress. Eh.

And finally, a little Jake Gyllenhaal. He was there to honor The Goop. He’s been looking really good lately!

Photos courtesy of Fame.

Ordinarily, the report that some actor or actress has gotten injured on the set is no big deal. Actors have minor (and sometimes major) injuries all the time. Unfortunately Diane Keaton was injured on the New York set of her film Morning Glory today. Radar has a picture of Keaton on a stretcher, holding her forehead in what looks like significant pain. Radar’s reporting that Diane was injured while “filming a sumo wrestling scene”. Seriously? Diane Keaton is a national treasure, Hollywood. Please don’t injure this great lady by making her film a sumo wrestling scene.

Veteran actress Diane Keaton has been injured on the New York City set of her new comedy, Morning Glory.

Sources tell RadarOnline.com that Keaton was injured filming a sumo wrestling scene in Battery Park at Warren Street and River Terrace.

The star took a fall and seemed to suffer pain in her forehead.

Glory costars Rachel McAdams, Harrison Ford, Patrick Wilson and Jeff Goldblum.

[From Radar]

I’m really worried about Diane, and celebrities in general. Every Oscar nominee and winner, just watch your step, okay? All of you Grammy winners out there – keep your eyes peeled for falling debris. Emmy winners – keep your eyes on the road, and your hands at the preferred 10 and 2 o’clock positions. Everyone send positive thoughts to Diane!

Update: People Magazine is reporting that Diane is fine. Paramount released this statement: “Diane Keaton is in good health and spirits following a fall on set of Morning Glory where she bumped her head… The actress was taken to a hospital for precautionary tests and has been cleared by doctors to return to work tomorrow.” Your prayers worked!

Here’s Diane Keaton on the movie set ‘Morning Glory’ in New York on May 27th. Images thanks to Fame Pictures .

Diane Keaton was on Good Morning America this morning, and randomly started going off on how hot Diane Sawyer is. I’ve never given it much thought, but when forced to by Keaton; I will admit that Diane Sawyer is one hot nugget. That’s my new phrase, tell your friends. Keaton goes off, verbally devouring Sawyer from head to toe, while she looks remarkably uncomfortable for a few seconds. I’m guessing that when Diane Sawyer got up that morning, she probably didn’t roll over, look at Mike Nichols and say, “You know what, I have a feeling someone’s going to tell me what a blazing hottie I am today.”

Diane Keaton starts out by talking about how she’s worked so hard on her personality, and then notes:

“Of course I wanted to be beautiful, which brings me to my real point. Let’s talk about you. No, I’m serious. I was looking at you on television, and I honestly do not understand why more hasn’t been made of how beautiful you are. Because you, are a beautiful woman.”

Sawyer kind of half shakes her head here, but it seems more like “I can’t believe we’re discussing this” rather than a refutation of her incredible beauty. Keaton resumes, “I am not kidding you for one minute, and how more hasn’t been made of this…” At which point Sawyer interrupts her and makes a joke about Keaton trying to butter her up, as she’s clearly uncomfortable and losing control of the interview a little bit. But Keaton just won’t quit, and pushes forward. “You don’t want to talk about this, but you know it’s true.” To which Sawyer responds that Keaton is “very kind.” As Keaton continues, Sawyer tries to move on, but Keaton rushes back, and starts in on her lips.

Those lips, I mean I love ‘em. I’d like to have lips like that. Then I wouldn’t have worked on my f’ng personality!

Keaton went on to note that if she had nice full lips like Diane Sawyer’s, she’d be married by now. Assuming she could find a man with a penchant for potty mouths. I can’t decide if the interaction is awesome, hilarious, or creepy. I’ll let you all decide.

Here’s Diane Keaton walking around barefoot and talking on the phone while picking her nose and examing it. She doesn’t seem to eat it, though, as Brooke Shields was busted doing just a couple of weeks ago.

Cindy Crawford was also photographed picking her nose, and I saw some candids of Michele Williams rolling one out a couple of months ago.

This is rather pointless, I know, and we all need to get rid of boogers somehow. Maybe it’s because I have a kid, but I usually have one of those mini packs of Kleenex on me.

Pictures from Gossip Rocks.