Warren Beatty

Kathleen Turner, 31 Years Since Body Heat

Felice Arenas | Posted 05.04.2012

Last week, I caught up with Kathleen Turner to talk about going from Broadway to movies and back again, crawling up Steve Martin's leg to get a part, Warren Beatty pursuing her and why she took on her latest role in The Perfect Family.

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Iowa Then and Now

William Bradley | Posted 02.29.2012

Read More: Republican Presidential Race, Iowa, Republican Party, Barack Obama, 2012 Election, Mitt Romney, Ronald Reagan, Money in Politics, Walter Mondale, Gary Hart, Pat Caddell, Fox News, Middle East Oil, Climate Change, Iran, Warren Beatty, Politics News

The chaotic jumble of holding the Iowa presidential caucuses on January 3rd is now fully apparent. It didn't used to be this way.

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Which Hollywood Legend's Son Slammed Chaz Bono?

Posted 11.18.2011

Read More: Kathryn Beatty, Stephen Ira, Chaz Bono Transgender, Chaz Bono Gender Reassignment, Warren Beatty, Stephen Ira Beatty, Chaz Bono, Gay Voices News

The transgender son of Warren Beatty and Annette Bening has lashed out at Chaz Bono on his blog, accusing the recently departed "Dancing with the Star...

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Keaton's Confessions

Stephen Schlesinger | Posted 01.18.2012

Read More: La Di Da, Annie Hall, Diane Keaton, Diane Keaton Then Again, Warren Beatty, Al Pacino, Woody Allen, Entertainment News

Many of us now in our sixties carry the indelible image of Diane Keaton from her movies roles reminding us of our romantic younger times. Keaton still radiates youth -- and, in truth, talks exactly like the girl in Annie Hall.

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Easy Reader: Kellow's Pauline Kael: A Life in the Dark Throws Radiant Light on the Renowned Movie Critic

David Finkle | Posted 12.28.2011

Read More: Shampoo, Jaws, Penelope Gilliatt, Petaluma, Tillamook, Oregon, Anne Kael, Bernardo Bertolucci, California, Bobby Driscoll, William Shawn, Nashville, Steven Spielberg, James Broughton, Sam Peckinpah, Gene Siskel, Pauline Kael, Brian Kellow, The New Yorker, Cinema Guild, Pauline Kael: A Life in the Dark, Sight & Sound, The Partisan Review, Julie Christie, Roger Ebert, Warren Beatty, Gina James, San Francisco, Last Tango in Paris, Mystic Movie Theater, Robert Altman, Marlon Brando, Viking, Rose Kael, Books News

The only fan letter I ever wrote to a public figure -- other than to child star Bobby Driscoll when I was a child -- went to the then New Yorker movie critic Pauline Kael.

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Diane Keaton Discusses Romance With Woody Allen In New Memoir

AP | Posted 12.20.2011

Read More: Then Again, Warren Beatty, Al Pacino, Woody Allen, Annie Hall, Memoir, Diane Keaton, Dorothy Hall, Celebrities, Fifty News

NEW YORK -- She would know: Going out with Woody Allen was like being in a Woody Allen movie, Diane Keaton writes in an upcoming memoir. The Academy ...

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Vicky Tiel Dressed Hollywood Women. And Undressed for Warren, Elvis, Marlon...

Jesse Kornbluth | Posted 11.12.2011

Read More: Elizabeth Taylor, Vicky Tiel, Richard Burton, Warren Beatty, Ursula Andress, Elvis Presley, Woody Allen, Books We Love, Books News

It's All About the Dress is absolutely delicious, an I-can't-believe-I'm-reading-it-but-I-can't-put-it-down romp of a book, full of celebrity dish, unexpectedly sage advice and a batch of toothsome recipes.

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PHOTOS: TCM Fest's Top Celebrity Panelists

The Huffington Post | Lucy Blodgett | Posted 06.26.2011

Read More: Turner Classic Movies, Tcm, Kirk Douglas, Leslie Caron, Volano, Alec Baldwin, Warren Beatty, Hollywood Theaters, Los Angeles Film Festival, Los Angeles News

WHAT: The 2nd Annual TCM Film Festival WHERE: Hollywood, CA WHEN: April 28 - May 1 Last year cinephiles swarmed Hollywood's theaters for the inau...

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Remembering Sydney Lumet's Elegance

Carole Mallory | Posted 06.11.2011

Read More: Ned Tannen, Lifetime Achievement Award, Pearl's, Ron Mallory, Faye Dunaway, Julie Christie, Academy of Motion Pictures, Ryan O'Neal, Prince of the City, Manhattan, Paddy Chayefsky, Warren Beatty, Guggenheim Museum, Elaine's, Frank Pierson, Mary Gimbel, Robert De Niro, Entertainment News

Lumet was drawn to and inspired artistically by the diversity of New York City, its many ethnic neighborhoods, its art and its crime, its sophistication and its corruption, its beauty and its ugliness.

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Warren Beatty's Birthday Gift: Dick Tracy is Yours

Lonna Saunders | Posted 05.30.2011

Read More: Warren Beatty, Annette Bening, Reds, Dick Tracy, Robert Blake, OJ Simpson, Chicago Cubs, Natalie Wood, The Wall Street Journal, California News, Donald Trump, Tcm, Turner Classic Movies, The View, Chicago News, Splendor in the Grass, Chicago News

Happy Birthday, Warren Beatty! You get to keep the rights to Dick Tracy. The Tribune Company lost a few days ago, so it was an early birthday gift.

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Live-blogging the 2011 Oscar telecast

Marshall Fine | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Kathryn Bigelow, Rick Baker, Prince, Eminem, Scarlett Johansson, Lord of the Rings, Country Strong, Hugh Jackman, Zachary Levi, Marilyn Monroe, Jeff Bridges, Cate Blanchett, Halle Berry, Steven Spielberg, Jake Gyllenhaal, Mandy Moore, David Fincher, Eli Wallach, Natalie Portman, Dustin Hoffman, Arthur, David Seidler, As Time Goes By, Florence and the Machine, Morgan Freeman, Bob Hope, Smile, In a Better World, Gwyneth Paltrow, Oscar, Black Swan, Tim Burton, Lena Horne, Tangled, Francis Ford Coppola, Banksy, Russell Brand, Clint Eastwood, Marshall Fine, Toy Story 3, Celine Dion, Robert Downey Jr., Warren Beatty, Marky Mark, Hilary Swank, Inside Job, Javier Bardem, Reese Witherspoon, Oprah, Auto-Tune, Cat Stevens, Amy Adams, Justin Timberlake, Colin Firth, Biutiful, James Franco, Jack Nicholson, Charlie Sheen, Billy Crystal, Josh Brolin, Australia, A.r. Rahman, Kirk Douglas, Susanne Bier, President Obama, Trent Reznor, Dicky Eklund, Citizen Kane, Alec Baldwin, Marisa Tomei, Helen Mirren, Mila Kunis, Jean-Luc Godard, Guthrie Theater, Matthew McConaughey, Nicole Kidman, Incendies, Christian Bale, Elton John, Phil Collins, Harry Potter, Marshall Fine Commentary, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, Dancing With the Stars, Geoffrey Rush, 127 Hours, The Social Network, Charles Ferguson, Sandra Bullock, Twilight, Stella Artois, Anne Hathaway, Tom Hanks, Alice in Wonderland, Jude Law, Paddy Chayefsky, Inception, Meryl Streep, Annette Bening, Aaron Sorkin, Randy Newman, Melissa Leo, Grapes of Wrath, Adrien Brody, Tom Hooper, Raging Bull, Pixar, Kevin Brownlow, Bruce Springsteen, Entertainment News

8:39PM EST Off to a good start with the hosts, James Franco and Anne Hathaway, inserted into scenes from several of the Oscar nominees, on an Incept...

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"Oscar Is an Old Man, Too, and Respected for It. Why Aren't Hollywood's Stars?"

Carole Mallory | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Liz Taylor, Julianna Moore Goldie Hawn, Warren Beatty, Barbra Streisand, Bob Hope. Melissa Leo, The Fighter, Oscars, Joy Behar, Annette Benning, Caterine Zeta Jones. Jane Fonda, Ageism, Oscars 2011, Entertainment News

Why NOT parade two witty, aging, bad boys with spirit and style who represent H-wood instead of two young newbies who have just learned to say 'hello'?

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Remembering Robert Altman

John Farr | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Philip Baker Hall, Emily Watson, Susannah York, Avon Theatre, Sissy Spacek, Buck Henry, Best Movies on DVD, Maggie Smith, Best Movies by Farr, Tim Roth, Helen Mirren, Tim Robbins, Julie Christie, Keith Carradine, Julianne Moore, Frances McDormand, Warren Beatty, Richard Nixon, Alan Bates, Jack Lemmon, Michael Gambon, Donald Sutherland, Shelley Duvall, Robert Altman, Andie Macdowell, Lily Tomlin, Kristen Scott-Thomas, Entertainment News

I was understandably nervous and excited to meet this man. It was May 5th, 2004 in Stamford, Connecticut. As co-founder of a newly restored landmark...

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On Her 70th Birthday, a Tribute to Faye Dunaway

John Farr | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Dustin Hoffman, Sydney Pollack, Joan Crawford, Academy Awards, William Holden, Gene Wilder, Michel Legrand, Mommie Dearest, Best Movies on DVD, Faye Dunaway, Katharine Hepburn, The Thomas Crown Affair, Best Movies by Farr, Gene Hackman, Robert Duvall, John Huston, Sidney Lumet, Peter Finch, Paddy Chayefsky, Warren Beatty, Hilary Duff, Bonnie and Clyde, Robert Evans, Arthur Penn, Steve McQueen, Robert Redford, Jack Nicholson, Roman Polanski, Entertainment News

To paraphrase a famous quote: "Hilary -- I've seen you act, and I've seen Faye Dunaway act, and Miss Duff -- you're no Faye Dunaway." This truth is of course self-evident if you watch Faye in her prime.

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New York Film Critics Circle Contretemps

Regina Weinreich | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: David Michod, Jacki Weaver, Stuart Blumberg, David O. Russell, Charles Ferguson, Ed Norton, Jeff Hill, Darren Aronofsky, Lisa Cholodenko, Mark Ruffalo, Warren Beatty, Annette Bening, Armond White, James Toback, New York Film Critics Circle, Matthew Libatique, Michelle Willliams, Colin Firth, Entertainment News

You expect an awards event to be a love fest with awardees waxing benighted and grateful. When Darren Aronofsky got up to speak about Black Swan's cinematographer, things got ugly.

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The Jerry Brown Era Unfolds (Again)

William Bradley | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: California, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Jerry Brown, Dianne Feinstein, Warren Beatty, Gray Davis, Nancy Pelosi, Los Angeles News

And he is off and running as governor of California. Again. The first week of Jerry Brown's governorship told us a lot, and set the stage for the second week, in which a hellacious state budget proposal is dominating.

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PHOTOS: 2010 NY Film Critics Circle Awards & More Last Night

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Stella McCartney, Warren Beatty, Nyc Around Town, Slidepollajax, NY Around Town, New York Around Town, New York Celebrities, Paul Giamatti, Michelle Williams, Parties, Movie Premiere, Ny Film Critics, Celebrities, New York News

Monday was a busy night for New Yorkers. The 2010 Film Critics Circle Awards brought out big names like Warren Beatty and Annette Bening, Jesse Eisen...

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FILM: New Yorker On Elia Kazan's Storied Life And Career (And Boxed Set)

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: New Yorker, Elia Kazan, East of Eden, On the Waterfront, American Film, Warren Beatty, Marilyn Monroe, Marlon Brando, House Unamerican Activities Committee, John Lahr, Arthur Miller, A Streetcar Named Desire, James Dean, Video, Arts News

As Elia Kazan walks to the microphone to receive his Honorary Oscar, about two-thirds of the room stands to clap. Warren Beatty is fighting back tears...

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Elaine Kaufman Threw My Check Book in My Face and I Will Miss Her

Carole Mallory | Posted 05.25.2011

Elaine Kaufman, a hub for loneliness and networking, fueled forty years of fond memories. Her passing signifies the end of an era.

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California Story: Brown and Boxer Kick for the Finish Line

William Bradley | Posted 05.25.2011

Is it really almost over? California Republicans' Golden Parachute Twins, Meg Whitman and Carly Fiorina, are bringing distinctly odd notes to their closing efforts to catch Jerry Brown and Barbara Boxer in the races for governor and U.S. senator.

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Privacy in the Millennial Age: Are We Oversharing or Undersharing?

Jessica Massa | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Google, Twitter, Relationships, Post-Dating World, Madonna, Truth or Dare, Millennial Generation, Facebook, Privacy, Internet, Warren Beatty, Romance, Millennials, Dating, Miley Cyrus, Online Privacy, Google Street View, Technology News

Privacy in a digital era. Here we go again! One of the great issues of our time (or so you would think, based on the fact that someone always seems to...

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Highlights From L.A. Times Festival of Books

Brad Schreiber | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Book Publishing, Carol Burnett, LA Times Festival of Books, Peter Biskind, Books, Warren Beatty, Books News

The largest book festival in the US, the recently concluded L.A. Times Festival of Books, on the UCLA campus, is one of the few times one can savor excessive traffic.

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Lighting Up and Lifting Off The Ground: Conversations With Shawn Mullins and Chely Wright

Mike Ragogna | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Scrubs, Court Yard Hounds, Prince, Shawn Millins, Paul Simon, Matthew Shepard, Glsen, Star Search, John Prine, Matthew Sweet, John Hiatt, Josiah Leming, Conway Twitty, Glen Phillips, Til Tuesday, The Thorns, Marshall Altman, Steve Forbert, Party of Five, Daughtry, Aimee Mann, Dawson's Creek, Rascal Flatts, Vince Gill, Rodney Crowell, Johnny Cash, Kris Kristofferson, Faith in America, Shawn Colvin, Steve Buckingham, Stephen King, Chuck Cannon, Toad the Wet Sprocket, Bob Dylan, Chely Wright, Entertainment Weekly, Tom Petty, Tom Waits, Nanci Griffith, Who Killed the Electric Car?, Max Gomez, Emmylou Harris, Townes Van Zandt, Warren Beatty, Lyle Lovett, Russell Carter, Jakob Dylan, Patty Griffin, Joni Mitchell, Jeffrey Dahmer, Greg Latterman, Bill Hicks, American Idol, The Bluebloods, Jon Brion, James Taylor, Joe Don, Electric Cars, Entertainment News

The Thorns absolutely has been my radar since it was first issued. Now, he's been the songwriter's songwriter for a long time: care to go into some of the Shawn Mullins story?

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Annette Bening Feted in Ferretti

Stephanie Green | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Annette Benning, Warren Beatty, Inside DC, Style News

While Ms. Bening chatted with guests as if they were old friends, her Hollywood legend hubby Warren Beatty was in a tight huddle with fellow power couple Andrea Mitchell and Alan Greenspan.

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Two Passing Greats: A Tribute to Arthur Penn and Tony Curtis

John Farr | Posted 05.25.2011

One had to acknowledge and admire Tony Curtis's sheer spirit and zest. But while Curtis was the ultimate public personality, filmmaker Arthur Penn, who died two days ago, was basically a private man.

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