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Beatty's off-screen image appears very similar to his on-screen persona. He is most often depicted as the consummate playboy-dilettante, campaigning for some liberal chic political candidate one moment (a la sister Shirley Maclaine), partying with the Aga Khan crowd the next. When will he get down to the business of serious acting? Ah, well, maybe someday we'll see the more mature Beatty--the more intelligent and reflective actor that he could and should...
...double features at the neighborhood movie palace. That was not the case. Growing up in Richmond and later Arlington, Va., Beatty (then spelled with one t) was a bookworm. His father, a high school principal, taught him to read at the age of four. He had a formidable sister, Shirley MacLaine (MacLean is Mrs. Beaty's maiden name). Three years older than Warren, she was the tomboy. Today she feels that both children were greatly influenced by the powerful personalities of their parents...
Sisterhood was there in full force, and also some brotherhood. To raise funds for the faltering Equal Rights Amendment, Shirley MacLaine, Bella Abzug, Carol Burnett, Robert Altman, Chevy Chase, Norman Lear and 300 or so others dined on chicken and chili at Mario Thomas' place in Beverly Hills. "It's a life and death struggle,"' boomed Abzug. Burnett declared: "I've always been apolitical, but this is a moral issue." Besides, as she says, "I have an investment in the future. I have three daughters...
...Shirley J. Crenshaw...
While the play might qualify as tragicomedy, it is more closely related to "life's little ironies." The locale is St. Louis in the mid-'30s, though that means more in attitude than in geography. The plot is bare-bones simple. Dorothea (Shirley Knight) is a blonde schoolteacher who has read the handwriting on the blackboard. She is spooked by incipient spinsterhood. A recent brief liaison with the school principal, a flighty socialite named Ralph T. Ellis, has lodged the romantic hope in her mind that she is his intended. Bodey...