ADDED: I was just thinking of her this morning. On the sunrise walk, we passed a man with a dog and I said to him, "Your dog is neat." And then I wondered why on earth I'd said "neat" and I thought it's like I'm channeling Annie Hall. See: "Lines from 'Annie Hall' Containing the Word 'Neat'" (Grok)(#6 is "We're not having an affair. He's married. He just happens to think I'm neat").
Now I'm looking back over all my old posts with the "Diane Keaton" tag. I see that she came up on the second day of this blog:
AND: Keaton was prolific on Instagram. There's this from last Christmas — her last Christmas:Picasso looks way more photographic on line than in the print edition. The print edition has a bit more to do with the real thing. When I see a painting I'm used to seeing reproduced I'm always impressed, once again, by what paint looks like. The images on line are fascinating--I've got some of my own to post some day--but they are only things that resemble paintings. The texture (metrotexture) is different, and the size often seems absurd.
But I really want to quibble about grammar. The New York Times writes: "The collection includes works by Manet, Degas, Monet and Sargent as well as a rare Rose Period Picasso, 'Boy With a Pipe.'"
Isn't every painting rare? There's one. That's the height of rarity. Rose Period Picassos may be rare, but "Boy With a Pipe" is no more rare than any given Clown Painting From the Collection of Diane Keaton.
I know they mean "The collection includes works by Manet, Degas, Monet and Sargent as well as a rare Rose Period Picasso. The Picasso is 'Boy With a Pipe.'"
Why stick to logic if you might have to write two sentences? Just go ahead and cram more information into one sentence.
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A beautiful girl who turned into a batty cat lady. The perfect boomer female. May she rest in peace and rise in glory.
I always thought she was too good for him.
Sorry to hear- will remember her from Annie Hall, Radio Days, Godfather…not the dreck from later. That was the stuff she funded?
Diane Keaton and I had a falling out many years ago, and there was never really any chance of making amends, truth be told, but if she were here today I would tell her I'm sorry and rub a potato on it.
She fell asleep... perchance to dream. RIP
I have her only in The Other Sister (1999) in my vast DVD collection. I remember nothing of it. Famous name though.
I was always most impressed by Sandra Bullock, with short bursts of German and Japanese in Two Weeks Notice, revealing an actual talent hidden away. As opposed to romcom star.
As an actress, I liked her and found her to be very attractive and she gave off the vibe that if she wasn't a famous actress she would be approachable. Youthful fantasies, don't harsh me with realities. Died too young. RIP.
Her going from Annie Hall to Looking for Mr. Goodbar was a strange career turn.
Her role in the Godfather films presaged the 21st century trend of audiences sympathizing more with villains than with their long-suffering wives.
Not to speak ill of the dead, because there's no doubt she led a life of achievement, but she wasn't my cup of tea as an actress - she was a pretty face that was always in character as Diane Keaton.
Ouch.
That's sad. I always found her likable. RIP
Eric the Fruit Bat said...
".... if she were here today I would tell her I'm sorry and rub a potato on it."
Not effective unless you bury it.
Ladida Ladida La La
You can now cram an old post inside a new post. A second chance at life.
I quite enjoyed most of the movies she was in. RIP to an icon.
When I went off to graduate school (before law school) at a new university, my first real date suggested we see Annie Hall. She was the one who asked me out. So I have fond memories of watching Annie Hall and talking about it afterwards.
I'm really sorry to hear this.
I don't think I've seen a movie, with her in it, that I didn't like. She shall be missed.
I need to rewatch Baby Boom and see how it holds up.
"Why don't you get William F Buckley to kill the spider."
Seems odd that all three of her most famous leading men are still alive.
Woody Allen, Al Pacino, Warren Beatty.
I was about 10 when my Mother took me to the Movie Theater to see Manhattan during a matinee. (My Mother loved to go to movies, sit in a dark Movie Theater during the day, and I guess, couldn't find a babysitter and dragged me along) I at 10, was bored to tears. Didn't get it, didn't like the black & white, totally did not understand. Here's what's funny: When I saw Looking for Mr. Goodbar (On TV, I think) at around the same age, maybe one year older, I immediately tapped into it. Loved everything about Goodbar, loved the music, the vibe, immediately got it, read the book several times. Two very very different movies set in NYC.
I was 16 when Annie Hall came out, and I thought that was one good-looking woman. I guess she went nuts around Baby Boom?
Woody Allen, Al Pacino, Warren Beatty.
you missed Jack Nicholson
Thirty two dollars from Hudson|Grace…
I have great fondness for Manhattan Murder Mystery. It showed the perfect, easy-going chemistry she and Woody had, even after many years apart. It’s a charming fluff-ball of a movie.
Foxy, with a real but limited talent.
I had forgotten about Mr. Goodbar. One of very few movies I walked out of before the ending.
Sad. These days 79 seems young. She's linked to Woody Allen but she was a fine dramatic actress. IRC, she was too level headed and too much of strong personality to be Woody's "chick" - like mia. IRC, she was into photography and the arts.
She's the best thing in Sleeper. And she has the best lines in "Manhattan" where she puts Mahler in the "Academy of the overrated" to Woody's outrage.
Loved Mr. Goodbar. One of my favorite 70s dramas. She's also good in "Little Drummer Girl" based on the Le Carre novel.
She did a great Marlon Brando impression.
So, what was wrong with her neck all those years? Bad tattoo or something?
She was three years younger than me. I just felt a shadow pass over my grave.....Karen Allen, Carrie Fisher, Diane Keaton. Not the greatest, nor the sultriest actresses of their era, but they were definitely the ones who would be the most fun to be around and share an adventure with......I guess Woody Allen wrote the lines, but she's the legal owner.
She dated Woody Allen, Al Pacino and Warren Beatty, but never married. I adopted two kids on her own.
Diane Keaton always had a real strong Yankee girl vibe. Sort of like Katherine Hepburn, back in the day. Interesting that both Michael Corleone and Alvy Singer are attracted to her as a type of Yankee blue blood.
Manhattan is her best movie, I think. I'm not in love with Annie Hall, but that's a star performance for sure.
Spider Man
And here she is, from Wisconsin
I thought she was a Yankee, I swear!
It's all up north from down here.
Allen does Blanche. Keaton does Brando.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4IF8-QQSDbk
She was a big sister to the older Boomers. 79 is a decent run all in all considering what most humans had expected and experienced. I really only remember her in Annie Hall. I thought she was as lovely as possible for such a quirky character.
This one is a weird one for me.
Early 1980s. My first ‘real’ college girlfriend: everyone — literally, not hyperbolically — EVERYONE always commented that she strongly reminded them of Dianne Keaton -- looks, mannerisms, voice, style, all of it. And she did to me, too, definitely. Oh yeah.
For awhile, I had thought that she was always putting us on, claiming that she didn’t know who Keaton was.
She had grown up in a very conservative Church-of-C family, and really had never watched movies or TV. So one evening I went and rented a VHS copy of “Annie Hall” for us to watch. And we watched it.
She didn’t see the similarities. As she sat there on the cheap couch wearing one of my white long-sleeve button shirts with a men’s thrift-store vest over it. No pants.
Which then only made her more Keaton-esque than ever.
Not far after that, we rented “Reds”. She LOVED Keaton in that.
Which I now also know was a sign that she, at heart, could be a Communist.
In 1987, during a Europe summer, we travelled from Vienna down to Pula, Yugoslavia. Back when there was a Soviet Union. And a Yugoslavia.
We crossed by train into the country in the midnight hours. After the train’s first stop, they woke up all the male tourists and had us walk across the tracks to the station.
We stood in a small office that was defiantly shabby Iron Curtain, not knowing what was happening — only that you could tell that the authorities greatly enjoyed that we did not know what was happening. Then we could hear the train start up again.
The authorities then slooooooowly started to review passports. Eastern Block, first. OK, OK: get back on the train.
Then the Europeans. I clearly remember the French were the first of this batch: OK, OK: get back on the train.
But now the train was starting to slowly move.
Scandiwhoovian countries in whatever order, then Italy: again — passports reviewed slooooowly.
The end of the process:
• Canadians.
• Germans.
Then…. Finally…. Us US citizens.
By the time we were allowed to rejoin our fellow travelers, the train was 100-yards down the track and picking up speed.
So we frantically chased after it, running barefoot in the dark along the gravel train bed, before pulling ourselves up by the hand-rails; the cheap worn linoleum flooring was wall-to-wall slick from our bloody feet.
The next hours were spent as the female passengers tried to clean and bandage our feet with our spare socks and strips of torn-up t-shirts and underwear.
During this, my Keaton-esque girlfriend had the idea to take a few halves of bread loaves from our bags and use them to softly sponge the blood and grime from the various mutilated feet of us men: it was far more gentle than the shitty rough paper towels that the Yugoslavians had in their bathrooms.
And her there, daubing our bloody feet with those loaves, was the most Diane Keaton-esque thing I can ever imagine a woman doing. Thank you _____, wherever you may now be.
I am Laslo.
Good grief, I forgot about her co-starring in "Reds". She does a great job considering she tied down with an anchor called Warren Beatty. Given his ego and lack of acting talent (as opposed to directing/producing talent), its amazing she does so well.
Reading Wikipedia it seems my recollection she was interested in photography was correct.
"She published several collections of her photographs and served as an editor of collections of vintage photography. Works she edited include a book of photographs by paparazzo Ron Galella, an anthology of reproductions of clown paintings, and a collection of photos of California's Spanish-Colonial-style houses."
I am not much of movie goer but I liked what I saw of her work. The life expectancy for females in the US is 81.1 years. I just looked it up. So 79 years is close to average.
"Sort of like Katherine Hepburn" I'm always puzzled as to how people compare her to Katherine Hepburn. I just don't know how you can watch Mr. Goodbar and see a Katherine Hepburn character. I didn't see much of Diane Keaton's later films. In Diane Keaton's personal life, as she aged she seemed a free-spirit, maybe a bit eccentric, funny and fun. Not at all Katherine Hepburn. I guess both remained single, but very different personalities.
I liked her ever since that one commercial she did at the beginning of her career: hour after hour deodorant.
7:08 is so late for a sunrise. Bring back standard time.
"7:08 is so late for a sunrise."
Sunrise is around 8:15 in January where I am. Standard time. And some people want year-round DST. 9:15 sunrise? No thanks.
There’s a young woman on an HGTV program who is nearly a dead ringer for Keaton. She remodels homes with her brother on the show.
I have found her deodorant commercial.
Sexy! What a grin.
"I had forgotten about Mr. Goodbar. One of very few movies I walked out of before the ending."
I thought Goodbar was great. Dark, of course, but powerful. My recollection is some critics didn't like it because they saw it as anti-feminist, promoting old-fashioned values by depicting the dangers of promiscuity. In any case, Keaton was very good in it.
Diane was one of the best Actresses in history. This is a huge loss.
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