Happy 2010. We hope you had a fun holiday season. We did. So much fun in fact we are finding it hard to focus on the serious stuff today. So instead, we bring you news of what will surely be the next bestselling book. Next week Simon & Schuster is releasing a biography on actor Warren Beatty. Titled, “Star: How Warren Beatty Seduced America,” and written by Peter Biskind the book discusses Beatty’s influence and control in Hollywood, his political involvement, and his legendary love life.
It is, of course, his love life, that is capturing headlines today. Apparently, the book claims that Beatty, star of “Splendor in the Grass” and “Dick Tracy” slept with 12,775 women. Although, according to a story in the New York Post, biographer Biskind says this number, “does not include daytime quickies, drive-bys, casual gropings, stolen kisses and so on.” The Post reports that the biography is authorized. Beatty’s attorney, Hollywood heavyweight Bert Fields, says it is not. And Simon & Schuster describes the book in this way, “In this compulsively readable and constantly surprising book, Peter Biskind, the author of the film classics Easy Riders, Raging Bulls and Down and Dirty Pictures, writes the most intimate, revealing, and balanced biography ever of Hollywood legend Warren Beatty.”
Quite frankly, we could care less about Beatty. “Reds” was too long, “Dick Tracy” was silly and we skipped “Bulworth” and “Bugsy.” But we’ll be following this story to see if the typical Hollywood double standard plays out. Men who sleep around (at the rate of one woman per day) are “lotharios.” Women, well, we know the drill.
So far we’ve seen write-ups in People magazine: “Warren Beatty’s legendary gold crown for womanizing is about to get some added polish,” and O, The Oprah Magazine, which lists “Star” on its “10 Books to Watch For in January 2010″ with this brief description: “Sexy, sexist—and seductive. We mean Beatty and the book.”
And finally, what is it exactly about “daytime quickies, drive-bys, casual gropings, and stolen kisses” that they don’t count as sexual relations? It reminds us of something we’ve heard before.
I’d like to think that no one will ever sleep with Warren Beatty again, now that they all know where he’s been.
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who doesn’t consider a “stolen kiss” equivalent to “sleeping with” someone, but that aside, Beatty’s on his own.
Liz, this was FABULOUS! Thanks for the smile
And the unexpected video at the end of this post !!!!!!!!!