Warren Beatty, washing machine

http://www.cinemastudio.com/moviegallery/bulworth.JPG

"You got half your kids are out of work and the other half are in jail. Do you see ANY Democrat doing anything about it? Certainly not me! So what're you gonna do, vote Republican? Come on! Come on, you're not gonna vote Republican! Let's call a spade a spade!
I mean - come on! You can have a Billion Man March! If you don't put down that malt liquor and chicken wings, and get behind someone other than a running back who stabs his wife, you're NEVER gonna get rid of somebody like me!"

And Beatty actually made a comic-strip movie that LOOKED like one, instead of these gr*phic n*vel basement-boy jizzfests. I love when he says to Tess, slipping out of the opera, "I'll be back, I wanna see how it comes out."

Re: comic strip movies that look like comic strips, be more specific about what you are talking about because you'll find that a lot of these movies DO look like exactly what they are based off of. Just because they're not the versions you like doesn't mean they aren't imitating the look of the comic. This is not a defense of Frank Fucking Miller, just a comment. Though I do have to say I preferred Batman Begins >>>>>>>> Tim Burton's first Batman flick.

Bulworth is not a great movie, and I find its attitude too diffident/distant/cynical/unserious (it's what you think about politics if your major role in it is going to Hollywood events and sending people lots of money), but at least he's trying and I liked it a lot the first time around (it doesn't hold up that well).

Dick Tracy is ridiculous, but I think seriously underrated. Also perhaps the role best-suited for him.

wrong!!!! you just like bale more than keaton!!!

http://www.famouslocations.com/images/movies/shampoo_.jpg

A sure sign of insanity.

'shampoo', 'shamPOO' more like.

I FUCKED 'EM ALL

I skimmed through a biography of the man in a bookstore...one of the best examples of how being successful in yr chosen field, being filthy rich, and having virtually unlimited access to yr choice of sexual partners does not equal "happiness"

it's the ultimate boomer movie

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great movie. not as good as McCabe and Mrs. Miller tho. Or Bonnie and Clyde.

Still one of the best dressed men. I would kill to have his tailor who is oddly, Frank Foster, the now famous tailor responsible for fashionable skinheads (e.g. Nick Knight).

I could never understand what made him so desirable. Does he stick $20 bills in their vaginas?

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I could never understand what made him so desirable. Does he stick $20 bills in their vaginas?

to paraphrase another actor: "I've got the TEETH, I've got the HAIR"

in Mark Harris' new book about the films of 1967, Beatty comes off as the only guy who could irritate Godard and Truffaut equally.

i think being handsome, rich, and famous does it for a lotta chicks.

he's a good-looking dude, of which there are no shortage of in Hollywood, obv...but, also, presumably he's managed to communicate a charismatic, sexay vibe

one of my favorite parts of the "Raging Bulls, Easy Riders" book is when it talks about him having whispery, hushed-toned late-night/early dawn conversations with Robert Towne. Please bring on the transcripts of that shit!

The only time I ever found him hawt was watching him learn Russian in Reds (then the scene with the dog barking killed it).

Think, alf, think. Not just hair or teeth. Skin. Clothes. Cheekbones. Manicure. Car. House. Power. Money. Fame. Not a lot of women can stand up to that package. xp

(I know he didn't direct the latter, but just for comparison's sake.)

$25M is low-budget for a period piece.

I've been meaning to watch Reds for years and years. I'm unlikely to have 4 hours to spare to watch it in one go, would it ruin it if I tried to watch it episodically?

if you must, I would go with halves; there's an intermission. It's only 3:20.

That sounds do-able, thanks Morbs.

Rules is not bad! All three principals are pretty good, in fact. Steve Coogan has one very funny scene in a cockpit while HH sings a Jolson medley.

Steve Mnuchin was a producer and has a wordless cameo (alongside a small gem of an Oliver Platt performance).

Beatty literally closes the curtain on his career in his last scene, works as a masked autobiography in many ways.

80 today!

the Karl story:

http://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2017/02/warren-beatty-pauline-kael-love-and-money

didn't know the lead actress in RDA was Paperlate's daughter

good take here:

http://www.csmonitor.com/The-Culture/Movies/2016/1123/Rules-Don-t-Apply-Warren-Beatty-s-directorial-return-is-disarmingly-light

rewatched Dick Tracy; love Pacino, Headly, the production design/effects and most of the jokes.

don't like La Ciccone and the loudness/replication of Burton's Batman in the last half hour (down to Elfman scoring it).

this is the best Sondheim song in it:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yDUZgORmrSY

Yeah thats about how i feel about it too

Madonna has one good line reading where she sez about the Kid "What a cute little boy," like she wants to smother him.

She is a terrible actress

well she's not even a compelling presence in this

This works:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KJN5DO4Lvx0

https://variety.com/2018/film/news/beatty-rules-dont-apply-test-audience-ethnic-1202935368/

“I’m not looking for acclaim for the movie,” wrote Beatty, who is 81. “The movie will be recognized for what it is. It’s that I want money to come back to our investors to cover the P&A shortfall, in order to compensate them for the mistake of our finally gambling on a higher awareness for a movie starring two unknown young people and an old guy who hasn’t been on the theatrical screen for 15 years.”

That article is great, I loved Rules Don't Apply

“One possibility discussed was that the public was just not interested in the film, its stars, or its subject matter.”

My conclusions about Reds since my second viewing in 2006 remain unchanged: a confused movie made by a guy attracted to capital-I-ideas filtered through Old Hollywood notions of chivalry and moviemaking. When Jack Reed is burning dinner or bumping his head against chandeliers, I want to bury the DVD in the backyard. While the film captures Reed's magnetism (from what I've read about him), it misses his energy and commitment. To a degree I admire that Beatty, a product of the mummified remains of the studio system, conceived of Reed as a passive force, to the point of being topped by Lousie whenever they fuck often in the second half (their sex drives increase as the Revolution triumphs, yet anothe of the film's howlers).

Also, the film has no clue what to do about Louise Bryant. Is she untalented, hence her anger? Is he a frustrated talent? Is he Annie Hall, yelling "fuck" and throwing things and gibbering la-dee-da to herself?"

*is she

Just now had a vague memory of something about the way the talking heads were presented in Zelig being a critique of the way this was done in Reds.

Proud to say I still have my Rules Don’t Apply cocktail glasses, commemorating a movie I enjoy https://t.co/XKqX2P3kcd pic.twitter.com/SDZiLZork1

— Splat! Prigge (@mattprigge) October 25, 2019

It’s a good movie

https://screencrush.com/warren-beatty-dick-tracy-special-2023/

In Dick Tracy Special: Tracy Zooms In, TCM host Ben Mankiewicz invites film critic Leonard Maltin over to his office as he prepares for a Zoom call with the famous comic strip and movie cop, Dick Tracy. Tracy (Beatty) calls Mankiewicz and Maltin on Zoom — Beatty is seated in a black void while wearing Tracy’s trademark yellow hat and overcoat — first to compliment Mankiewicz on an interview he did with Beatty for TCM some time earlier. Then “Dick Tracy” explains his issues with the movie Beatty made about him in 1990, while he watches clips from the film. A good five minutes of this 30 minute show were literally just Warren Beatty dressed as Dick Tracy watching the Dick Tracy movie while muttering things like “Yes! Yes, that’s good!” and “No! No! That’s terrible!”

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2023’s Tracy Zooms In special builds to Maltin adding the “real” Warren Beatty to the Zoom call, and — as Mankiewicz and Maltin look on in disbelief — the two Beattys get into a rambling debate about the Dick Tracy movie and moviemaking in general.

it's fucking great and is making me wanna rewatch Dick Tracy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QwYcwB_deG8

if i were warren beatty, i would get two dozen of these outfits made and not wear anything but
he should also go back to dating madonna

excellent, thx. this was the first movie i saw in a theater in america and still one of my favorite movies of all time.

Everytime Madonna comes onscreen=Tracy: "No no no..."

30 seconds no more Dick

Today is the day Warren Beatty's character in Heaven Can Wait was actually supposed to die.

https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQwLORCGVNct_WmlJ9iMQZUN6NVv3niEI_KIQ&s

If he passes today...

87 years old. If it happens, he had a great run and pretty much did everything he hoped to do, but he'd probably want to live to see the U.S. pull itself out of its fascist tailspin.