Diane Keaton

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fuck a michael and buster (actually, much respect to the stone-faced one)

Poll Results

Option	Votes
Annie Hall	13
Manhattan	8
Sleeper	4
Love and Death	3
The First Wives Club	2
Looking for Mr. Goodbar	2
The Godfather	1
Play It Again, Sam	1
Shoot the Moon	1
Radio Days	1
Crimes of the Heart	0
The Family Stone	0
Something's Gotta Give	0
The Godfather: Part II	0
Marvin's Room	0
I Will, I Will... for Now	0
Harry and Walter Go to New York	0
Manhattan Murder Mystery	0
Father of the Bride	0
Interiors	0
The Godfather: Part III The Lemon Sisters (1990) .... Eloise Hamer	0
Reds	0
Baby Boom	0
The Little Drummer Girl	0
Mrs. Soffel	0
Because I Said So	0

― gershy, Friday, 6 April 2007 06:50 (eighteen years ago)

ok, i fucked up the lemon sisters/godfather iii, but nobody was gonna vote for them anyway, right????

― gershy, Friday, 6 April 2007 06:52 (eighteen years ago)

the "heaven is a place on earth" video

― get bent, Friday, 6 April 2007 07:01 (eighteen years ago)

i thought about that, but lazily just pasted crap from imdb

― gershy, Friday, 6 April 2007 07:04 (eighteen years ago)

i have to choose???

― stevie, Friday, 6 April 2007 07:47 (eighteen years ago)

neil peart would say "if you choose not to decide, you still have made a choice" </ayn rand>

― gershy, Friday, 6 April 2007 07:49 (eighteen years ago)

I love her in all the woody allen comedies she did. Probably if I had to choose, sleeper is my favorite. She was madcap in that one. And I don't just use the word madcap for shits and giggles mind you.

― mercurialblonde, Friday, 6 April 2007 07:54 (eighteen years ago)

Rebels are we! Born to be free! Just like the fish in the sea!

― Mark C, Friday, 6 April 2007 10:50 (eighteen years ago)

Her eighties streak (Shoot the Moon, The Little Drummer Girl, Mrs Soffel, Baby Boom, The Good Mother, hell, even Reds) constitutes her best work.

― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Friday, 6 April 2007 12:50 (eighteen years ago)

i'm from philadelphia, we believe in god

― ghost rider, Friday, 6 April 2007 13:13 (eighteen years ago)

how can i not vote annie hall though

― rrrobyn, Friday, 6 April 2007 14:15 (eighteen years ago)

Yale: You know we have to stop seeing each other, don't you.
Mary Wilke: Oh, yeah. Right. Right. I understand. I could tell by the sound of your voice on the phone. Very authoritative, y'know. Like the pope, or the computer in 2001.

― and what, Friday, 6 April 2007 14:47 (eighteen years ago)

I have never seen Annie Hall before, but I have it waiting for me @ home. AWESUM.

― David R., Friday, 6 April 2007 14:50 (eighteen years ago)

& I wish the subtitle to The Godfather Part III was The Lemon Sisters!

― David R., Friday, 6 April 2007 14:51 (eighteen years ago)

how can i not vote annie hall though

I actually voted Manhattan, because a) I think it's a better movie, and b) her character is a little heavier, a really recognizable mix of insufferable pretension and yawning need. She the center of the movie, really, the perfect example of how otherwise smart people can train themselves to talk instead of live.

― kenan, Friday, 6 April 2007 14:53 (eighteen years ago)

I dallied over Sleeper, voted Annie Hall, then wished I'd voted for Manhattan. Sigh.

― Mark C, Friday, 6 April 2007 15:07 (eighteen years ago)

it is okay

― rrrobyn, Friday, 6 April 2007 15:10 (eighteen years ago)

i mean, it'll be okay, mark

― rrrobyn, Friday, 6 April 2007 15:10 (eighteen years ago)

Me too. Well, dallied over Love and Death and Sleeper, voted Annie Hall.

― molly mummenschanz, Friday, 6 April 2007 15:11 (eighteen years ago)

I actually voted Manhattan, because a) I think it's a better movie, and b) her character is a little heavier, a really recognizable mix of insufferable pretension and yawning need

I agree, and her performance in Reds is basically a retread, only more insufferable.

― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Friday, 6 April 2007 15:21 (eighteen years ago)

i went for manhattan too.

who here knew her real name is diane "annie" hall?

fact!

― s1ocki, Friday, 6 April 2007 15:50 (eighteen years ago)

so much manhattan love warms the cockles of my heart

― ghost rider, Friday, 6 April 2007 15:52 (eighteen years ago)

Shoot the Moon is probably the greatest divorce film I've ever seen.

― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Friday, 6 April 2007 15:54 (eighteen years ago)

i voted love and death. but why no love for harry and walter go to new york?

― get bent, Friday, 6 April 2007 15:56 (eighteen years ago)

so much manhattan love warms the cockles of my heart

nothing like hot cockles!

― get bent, Friday, 6 April 2007 15:57 (eighteen years ago)

― ghost rider, Friday, 6 April 2007 15:57 (eighteen years ago)

hot cockles, check 'em and see.

― s1ocki, Friday, 6 April 2007 15:58 (eighteen years ago)

http://www.movieactors.com/freezeframes22/LoveAndDeath26.jpeg

― milo z, Friday, 6 April 2007 17:18 (eighteen years ago)

wheat, rippling wheat

― ghost rider, Friday, 6 April 2007 17:19 (eighteen years ago)

vincent van gagh

― Shakey Mo Collier, Friday, 6 April 2007 17:22 (eighteen years ago)

Napoleon: I wonder if you should be more difficult to conquor than Russia
Sonja: Well, I weigh less.

― ghost rider, Friday, 6 April 2007 17:24 (eighteen years ago)

Anna: Also some string. Ivan saved string.
Sonja: I know. It was one of the reasons why I loved him.

― ghost rider, Friday, 6 April 2007 17:26 (eighteen years ago)

i regret already voting for 'play it again, sam'

― and what, Friday, 6 April 2007 17:26 (eighteen years ago)

'van gagh! like a cossack, she speaks!'

or something like that

― and what, Friday, 6 April 2007 17:26 (eighteen years ago)

hahaha did you seriously vote for play it again sam

― ghost rider, Friday, 6 April 2007 17:27 (eighteen years ago)

i figured you more for a "baby boom" man

― ghost rider, Friday, 6 April 2007 17:29 (eighteen years ago)

i seriously did

i like the art gallery scene

― and what, Friday, 6 April 2007 17:41 (eighteen years ago)

ive never see 'the good mother' but the chapter about filming it in nimoy's autobio is bitchy and hilarious

― and what, Friday, 6 April 2007 17:42 (eighteen years ago)

this list looks like its strictly acting (as opposed to directing)...?

― Shakey Mo Collier, Friday, 6 April 2007 17:43 (eighteen years ago)

yeah she is actually good in play it again sam (it's been a while since i've seen it tho). but keaton's funnier in love and death and just generally so perfect in manhattan (which was my vote, l&d quotes aside)

― ghost rider, Friday, 6 April 2007 17:44 (eighteen years ago)

cuz her episode of Twin Peaks is really great and very funny

x-post

― Shakey Mo Collier, Friday, 6 April 2007 17:44 (eighteen years ago)

I just bought Manhattan and Annie Hall, hard to pick between the two. AH is funnier but Manhattan is more genuinely affecting.

― Shakey Mo Collier, Friday, 6 April 2007 17:45 (eighteen years ago)

my favorite scene in "play it again, sam": when woody greets his blind date and he's so nervous he proceeds to knock everything in his apartment over and the whole time he's, like, weirdly grunting and finally she feels bad for him and tries to engage in some small talk and mentions that it's raining and he says in that goofy voice, "I love the rain. It washes memories off the sidewalk of life."

But that doesn't have much to do with keaton, so I vote Manhattan.

― horseshoe, Friday, 6 April 2007 17:45 (eighteen years ago)

oh man i have to watch that again

― ghost rider, Friday, 6 April 2007 17:48 (eighteen years ago)

that scene has never failed to make me literally lol and I've seen the movie at least 20 times.

I love the "I'm from Philadelphia" lines in Manhattan. I do that, too, which is kind of worrisome.

― horseshoe, Friday, 6 April 2007 17:49 (eighteen years ago)

i say "i'm from philadelphia" with some regularity despite not being from philadelphia or ever having lived there

― ghost rider, Friday, 6 April 2007 17:51 (eighteen years ago)

i like when hes on the date with this silk-draped nympho bragging about how sensuous she is and how much she loves sex and when he makes a move she throws him out

― and what, Friday, 6 April 2007 17:57 (eighteen years ago)

Allan: You want a Fresca with a Darvon?
Linda: Unless you have apple juice.
Allan: Apple juice and Darvon is fantastic together!
Linda: Have you ever had Librium and tomato juice?
Allan: No, I haven't personally, but another neurotic tells me they're unbelievable.

― and what, Friday, 6 April 2007 17:58 (eighteen years ago)

where is the love for looking for mr. goodbar? (i mean her performance, the movie is problematic)

― bobby bedelia, Friday, 6 April 2007 17:58 (eighteen years ago)

Allan: This is a beautiful beach house.
Linda: Thank you.
Allan: Let's burn it down for the insurance money.

― and what, Friday, 6 April 2007 17:59 (eighteen years ago)

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that is awesome, scott! even if he said "sorry, kid" to you.
i watched manhattan last night and though i love her hair in it, i'm keeping my annie hall vote. also, that her character gets together with keanu in something's gotta give is pretty much the highlight of that movie.

― rrrobyn, Sunday, 8 April 2007 15:36 (eighteen years ago)

Annie Hall the predictable but deserved winner, she's just perfect in it. My favourite bits are the photography discussion ("I don't know what I'm saying-she senses I'm shallow") and when she picks him up after tennis ("Oh well la-di-da") but there are so many. She's pretty good in anything though I think?

― Ned Trifle II, Sunday, 8 April 2007 17:19 (eighteen years ago)

I've been sorta afraid of renting Looking for Mr. Goodbar. Anyone see it?

― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Sunday, 8 April 2007 17:21 (eighteen years ago)

it's great!

― scott seward, Sunday, 8 April 2007 17:29 (eighteen years ago)

Richard Brooks writing and directing it is what scares me. Richard Gere looks HAWT though.

― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Sunday, 8 April 2007 17:38 (eighteen years ago)

it's such an amazing time-capsule. definitely rent it.

― scott seward, Sunday, 8 April 2007 18:29 (eighteen years ago)

A large part of the problem is that Allen is such a limited actor.

CRAZY, CRAZY TALK

― horseshoe, Sunday, 8 April 2007 18:46 (eighteen years ago)

guys, Seth Green was, like, two in Radio Days. so, so cute.

― horseshoe, Sunday, 8 April 2007 18:49 (eighteen years ago)

A large part of the problem is that Allen is such a limited actor.

CRAZY, CRAZY TALK

Um, care to deny it?

― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Sunday, 8 April 2007 23:27 (eighteen years ago)

who the fuck votes for sleeper over love and death

C'mon, they're both great as is she in them, but in Sleeper she does her Brando and gets to sing "Rebels are we..."

I watched Reds this weekend and I still like it lots more than Alfred does (aside from the dopey rom-com scenes in the first half).

― Dr Morbius, Monday, 9 April 2007 13:08 (eighteen years ago)

also, Woody admits he's a limited actor.

― Dr Morbius, Monday, 9 April 2007 13:08 (eighteen years ago)

she was hotttt

― blueski, Monday, 9 April 2007 13:10 (eighteen years ago)

I could've seen Woody steal the Diane tribute at Lincoln Center the other night for $40 ...

I'm sure you've all, at one time or another, heard the term 'passive-aggressive'... I only mention this because every film I did with Keaton, I always wrote all the good jokes and all the good stuff and all the good scenes for me. When the picture came out, she was the funny one...she got all the reviews. So, you know, it's infuriating.

She called and asked if I would say some nice things [for this event], and I asked, 'What the hell do you want to be honored for?' Because I could never see the point of being honored; you sit there and there's adulatory things...you get bathed in obsequious adulation and all that garbage. But she liked that idea, and then I heard the desperation in her voice. So I said okay, Keaton is... Punctual? And she's... thrifty? What else can I say about her?

― Dr Morbius, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 17:00 (eighteen years ago)

sometimes I think his friendship with diane keaton is the only thing keeping woody allen human in his late-stage toadiness.

― horseshoe, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 17:01 (eighteen years ago)

What about his Knick fandom?

I put Goodbar in my Netflix queue. You better be right, Scott.

― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 17:21 (eighteen years ago)

He seems quite human, for better and worse.

― Dr Morbius, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 17:25 (eighteen years ago)

I dunno, he got really mean circa Deconstructing Harry. I guess by human I mean likable.

― horseshoe, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 17:25 (eighteen years ago)

and yes, his love of new york is another thing keeping him human.

― horseshoe, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 17:26 (eighteen years ago)

LOVED the Harry meanness. Curdled later.

― Dr Morbius, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 17:30 (eighteen years ago)

I mean, I actually worry about him, which I realize is ridiculous. I'm glad he has Diane Keaton in his life. /smurfy

― horseshoe, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 17:32 (eighteen years ago)

lame

― Catsupppppppppppppp dude ‫茄蕃‪, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 20:34 (eighteen years ago)

I know, I know

― horseshoe, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 20:36 (eighteen years ago)

David Edelstein in NY Mag on the Linc Ctr tribute... the quotes from her speech are kinda something.

Sometimes after the terror of acting passes, she said, you “do reach a beautiful plateau, you do discover a moment in time that does feel like it will live on forever.”

She sang a verse from “Seems Like Old Times” the way she did in Annie Hall, trembled audibly, then quoted a character in her underrated second feature, Unstrung Heroes, who says, “Documentation is key.”

“Looking at us then and looking at us now is all the documentation I needed to recognize that these encounters, no matter how fleeting, are all I know of heaven.”

― Dr Morbius, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 15:09 (eighteen years ago)

I put Goodbar in my Netflix queue. You better be right, Scott.

last time I saw it was 15 years ago, but it's definitely a film you should see at least once. ending is reknowned and if you don't know what happens try to keep it that way.

speaking of classic scenes, wtf, not one vote for godfather II? "it was a son michael! a son!"

― Edward III, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 15:50 (eighteen years ago)

nine years pass...

la di da

http://variety.com/2016/film/awards/diane-keaton-afi-life-achievement-award-1201880415/

― The Hon. J. Piedmont Mumblethunder (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 6 October 2016 21:23 (eight years ago)

four years pass...

A Zoomcast on Looking for Mr. Goodbar, which I saw on release and still love.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZHCdiafUsdg

― clemenza, Wednesday, 3 February 2021 19:41 (four years ago)

You've sold me--or at least you would have, if this film appeared to be available anywhere. Criterion Channel, Prime--nothing. I seem to recall it popping up on TCM every now and then, so I'll look for it.

I also remember my mom having the novel on her shelf back when I was a kid. The title would have meant nothing to me at the time, because had I known that there was something salacious about it, I definitely would have read it!

― edited for dog profanity (cryptosicko), Wednesday, 3 February 2021 19:52 (four years ago)

I don't know how averse you are to physical media, but you can buy it new for a decent price (~$20).

― clemenza, Wednesday, 3 February 2021 19:56 (four years ago)

Not adverse, just willing to wait until things I want to see come my way (always having way too many things I want to watch helps keep me busy until these other things show up, as well).

― edited for dog profanity (cryptosicko), Wednesday, 3 February 2021 20:08 (four years ago)

one year passes...

Now 45 years old: https://lecinemadreams.blogspot.com/2014/07/looking-for-mr-goodbar-1977.html

― Eric H., Wednesday, 19 October 2022 18:22 (two years ago)

Wasn't a particularly strong field, but I'm sure Keaton's Best Actress AA for Annie Hall that year was in part in recognition for Goodbar.

― clemenza, Thursday, 20 October 2022 03:00 (two years ago)

he sexual revolution had become a commoditized, cynically co-opted wave of sex merchandising and lifestyle branding that exposed the unspoken lie behind the rhetoric of sexual freedom and liberation. The lie (or perhaps, the naïve hope) being that sex was not intimacy, human physical contact bore no psychological or spiritual consequence, and that we as humans were not profoundly affected by its lack. What led me to this conclusion was the odd phenomenon of getting a good look at the faces of all the high-profile hedonists of my generation. John Holmes, Marilyn Chambers, Hugh Hefner, Linda Lovelace...they all looked like hell. The average 1970s swinger, toward the end of the decade, tended to look like a hollowed-out pod person.

my god yes

― Malevolent Arugula (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 20 October 2022 11:52 (two years ago)

wow

― We Have Never Been In Precise Modern Lovers Order (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 20 October 2022 12:35 (two years ago)

WHy am i only now realizing she is Michael Keaton's sister

― | (Latham Green), Thursday, 20 October 2022 12:40 (two years ago)

Also why are 80% of "Serious" 70's movies traumatizing to watch?

― | (Latham Green), Thursday, 20 October 2022 12:43 (two years ago)

The actors aged quickly and terribly?

― Malevolent Arugula (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 20 October 2022 14:30 (two years ago)

WHy am i only now realizing she is Michael Keaton's sister

Um, is this actually true?

― We Have Never Been In Precise Modern Lovers Order (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 20 October 2022 14:31 (two years ago)

Buster is jumping up and down on his sidecar.

― We Have Never Been In Precise Modern Lovers Order (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 20 October 2022 14:32 (two years ago)

and Elizabeth Taylor was Zachary Taylor's sis!

― Malevolent Arugula (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 20 October 2022 14:39 (two years ago)

Diane Keaton would be the perfect Batman. I want to see a crossover - Batman Betelgeuse. Diane Keaten as Batman and Michael her brother in his old role as batteljuice

― | (Latham Green), Thursday, 20 October 2022 14:51 (two years ago)

"Battlejuice" sounds completely awesome.

― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Thursday, 20 October 2022 14:54 (two years ago)

Also why are 80% of "Serious" 70's movies traumatizing to watch?

There was a market for cultural pessimism and unhappy endings that was indulged to excess.

The average 1970s swinger, toward the end of the decade, tended to look like a hollowed-out pod person.

That was a very good article. This phrase in particular makes me think of Gay Talese's 1981 book Thy Neighbour's Wife, a non-fiction exploration of the "sexual liberation" of the previous decade.

― Halfway there but for you, Thursday, 20 October 2022 14:56 (two years ago)

The average 1970s swinger, toward the end of the decade, tended to look like a hollowed-out pod person.

the first epsidoes of Karina Longworth's podcast of erotic thrillers of the 80s, goes into the tail end of the 70s and the post sexual revolution Hollywood fallacy.

― my opinionation (Hamildan), Thursday, 20 October 2022 15:44 (two years ago)

WHy am i only now realizing she is Michael Keaton's sister

Um, is this actually true?

No, this is not true. Right?

― change display name (Jordan), Thursday, 20 October 2022 15:46 (two years ago)

They are unrelated.

― henry s, Thursday, 20 October 2022 15:53 (two years ago)

It's Alex Keaton she's related to, not Michael.

― clemenza, Thursday, 20 October 2022 16:02 (two years ago)

Well I think they are probabl ydistantly related. they look similar

― | (Latham Green), Thursday, 20 October 2022 19:59 (two years ago)

Keaton is not even his real name, but this is a pretty benign conspiracy theory so go on I guess

― change display name (Jordan), Thursday, 20 October 2022 20:16 (two years ago)

They both changed their names to stick it to theur real parents. they were separated at birth. Their real last naem is probably something like "Goldenbar" or similar.
They knew they had to fight for what was theirs - their parents were against their becoming hollywood super stars!

― | (Latham Green), Thursday, 20 October 2022 21:37 (two years ago)

https://i.imgur.com/C2ATt7i.jpg

― | (Latham Green), Thursday, 20 October 2022 21:40 (two years ago)

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