Warren Beatty: A Private Man

Despite his much publicised love life, Warren Beatty has always guarded hisrivacy zealously, giving few interviews and asking his friends not to talkbout him to the press. But now acclaimed biographer Suzanne Finstad has beenble to obtain unprecedented interviews with friends such as Mike Nichols,ary Hart and Senator George McGovern as well as former lovers like Joanollins and Jane Fonda and to gain access to rare photographs, letters andiaries. The result is a fascinating and intimate portrait of one ofollywood's key figures - actor, writer director, producer and, of course,egendary lothario. Finstad describes Beatty's upbringing, his early dayslaying the piano in New York cocktail lounges, his complex relationship withis older sister, Shirley MacLaine, and his romances with a iconic actressesrom Joan Collins and Nathalie Wood to Julie Christie, Diane Keaton, Cher andnnette Bening, the woman he finally married. She also writes with skill andnsight about Beatty's movies, from "Splendour in the Grass", "Bonnie andlyde" (the film that made him and legend) "Heaven Can Wait and Reds", and