There is a big new biography out on Warren Beatty. I don’t know if I’ve got the umph to read the entire thing–I admire Beatty’s best movies, Bonnie and Clyde, McCabe and Mrs Miller, Shampoo, Reds, but I have never fully understood his appeal as a sex symbol.
Still, there is a plump excerpt of Peter Biskand’s biography in the current issue of Vanity Fair. In many ways, it is the ultimate Vanity Fair piece–high-class fluff that is not especially insightful but compulsively readable. The excerpt is about the disaster that is known as Ishtar. Amazingly enough, Dustin Hoffman comes across as the sane one.
Review in the NYT ripped the book apart. Most info date or previously aired. No recent access to the subject. insufficient coverage of McCabe and the political movie the name of which I cannot remember. I would only read it if his wife wrote it.