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(from GREAT MEMORIES: Book MAMA's April Pick For Moms)on 04/02/12Share your opinion
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STAR BY PETER BISKIND
How Warren Beatty Seduced America
I am still trudging my way through this gigantic book. He just met Annette Bening, so I suppose I must be getting semi-near the end. As biographies go, it’s okay. As a reader, you need to be extremely interested in the utter minutiae involved in the making of movies to truly appreciate the research involved in writing this novel. Biskind literally talked to everyone to get his information. He has sex details from Madonna and scads of other girlfriends. He knows exactly how many feet of film Beatty shot for REDS; how many takes for each scene. In my opinion, both Bonne and Clyde and Splendor in the Grass are great movies –as are Heaven Can Wait and Shampoo, so I was actually keen to find out the genesis of those pictures. But the guy made a lot of movies, and it gets a...
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