Beatty

[bee-tee, bey-tee]

noun

1. David 1st Earl of the North Sea and of Brooksby, 1871–1936, British admiral.

2. (Henry) Warren, born 1937, U.S. actor.

Beatty

/ ˈbiːtɪ /

noun

1. David , 1st Earl Beatty. 1871–1936, British admiral of the fleet in World War I

2. Warren , full name Henry Warren Beatty. Born 1937, US film actor and director: his films include Bonnie and Clyde (1967), Heaven Can Wait (1978), Reds (1981, also directed), Bugsy (1991), and Bulworth (1998, also wrote and directed)

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“I wanted to be Warren Beatty, not date him,” Keaton confessed, romancing fellow artists as long as their relationship was mutually stimulating and then after that, remaining friends.

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I wanted to be Diane Keaton, even if she wanted to be Warren Beatty.

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Keaton’s personal life was sometimes fodder for the gossip pages, with her being linked romantically to Beatty and Pacino.

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Warren Beatty co-wrote, produced and directed this historical drama about John Reed, a journalist who chronicled Russia’s 1917 October Revolution.

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Though she never married or gave birth—she adopted two children in her 50s—she famously dated Warren Beatty, while filming his historical epic “Reds,” for which she received an Oscar nomination as the writer Louise Bryant; and Al Pacino, more than a decade after they had first worked together as Kay and Michael Corleone in “The Godfather.”

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