![]() ![]() Miller (1971), Shampoo (1975), Heaven Can Wait (1978), Reds (1981), Bugsy (1991) - these are just the indisputable tours de force among Beatty's work as, variously, actor, writer, producer and director. ![]() Splendor in the Grass (1961), McCabe & Mrs. Greatness in motion pictures, Biskind argues, requires the making of only a few defining works, and Beatty, he asserts, can claim more than a half-dozen essential or, in the case of 1967's Bonnie and Clyde, revolutionary films to his credit. Still, it has been awhile since the spotlight shined on Beatty, who for much of the second half of the 20th century, was Hollywood's most rakish leading man and movie brat. ![]() That sounds like the nail-biting anxiety of a journalist who spent the past decade sweating over a biography of the man. Warren Beatty and his Splendor in the Grass co-star Natalie Wood at the 1962 Academy Awards.Ĭelebrity culture churns so fast these days that in his introduction to Star: How Warren Beatty Seduced America, writer Peter Biskind worries that no one under the age of 40 knows who Warren Beatty is. ![]()
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