Bearking—Diane Keaton, 79, has died

La di dah. La di dah.

Jees. Thought she was immortal.

Gasp.

No!!!!!,! I’m starting to bawl my eyes out!

This can’t be happening!!

Kinda surprised, it seemed like she was in good shape for her age

Thank goodness for AI

Oh,wow! This is very unexpected!! What a shocker. I liked her. She seemed like she would just always be around....

I loved her. I thought she just got more beautiful with age. So classy and talented.

Truly a WTF moment.

Redford. Keaton. And?

[quote]Kinda surprised, it seemed like she was in good shape for her age

She had receded from the public eye over the last six months or so. Her last Instagram post was in April. There had been internet murmurs about her health.

Such a sad loss. Time to put in that Looking for Mr. Goodbar BluRay.

[quote]Redford. Keaton. And?

Dickson.

Wow. Just wow.

Another 79-year-old icon also just cancelled her planned shows in Vegas in December. If Dolly goes, too, I may go postal.

Didn’t see that coming. Even if she did disappoint me by becoming a white box houseflipper.

[quote] Dickson.

Michael Dickson?

Oh wow. RIP.

How long before the Diane was my lover confessions emerge?

GodDAMN it!

I told her no good would come of her going to bars and meeting strange men!!

Damn, damn, DAMN!

Guys, there's probably going to be lots of men's suits available soon at the Goodwill in West Hollywood.

I will never forget the look in her eyes when her character sees Warren Beatty's character in the train station reunion scene in Reds. Just a master class in nonverbal acting.

I have the same ant-glare specs. IS LED fatal?

anti-glare...

Today will be the day DL dies.

79 doesn't seem that old nowadays (even though I know logically it is). RIP.

I'm going to the DK Is dead to me thread. Just out of tradition.

Variety.

Awful and totally unexpected. I loved her -- a true original.

F&F for OP. This death announcement is disrespectful and violates Datalounge rules of decorum.

Honor the dead!

[quote] I'm going to the DK Is dead to me thread.

That thread is an abortion!

This sucks. I really like her.

[quote]I'm going to the DK Is dead to me thread.

We'll endeavor to carry on without you.

We are now losing all the big stars from the 1970s. I remember being a kid and going to the movies to watch these legends and now they're gone. It seems surreal how quickly time goes by.

Only Streisand, Fonda, Goldie, Liza, Cher, Julie Andrews, Julie Christie and Bette are left of the female superstar actresses.

And yet the orange anus lives on.

Excuse me, little homosexual boy R37?

I think Jack Nicholson will probably complete the triumvirate. Redford, Keaton, Jack.

I'm probably wrong but it seems a natural progression.

R33 at least I included “Bearking”.

Lord, take Woody Allen and give Diane back to us!

So very appealing in her early Tonight Show appearances.

It's kind of amazing that are greatest actors of the 70s are still living--Beatty, Nicholson, DeNiro, Eastwood, Hoffman and Pacino.

Who will mourn her most?

Woody Allen

Al Pacino

Warren Beatty

Nancy Meyers

Walken.

The NY Times weekend skeleton crew STILL isn't on it.

Maybe they didn't have an insta-obit ready.

[quote] Maybe they didn't have an insta-obit ready.

They have to. Maybe even penned by someone who's no longer alive.

[quote] Redford. Keaton. And?

Take your eyes off my titties ! I already told you a few days ago - I ain't dead yet !

So many great performances, in addition to her classic comic ones: SHOOT THE MOON, REDS, MARVIN"S ROOM, THE GOOD MOTHER.... Yet People's obit leads with FATHER OF THE BRIDE and FIRST WIVE'S CLUB.

R27, there is nothing overacted about that scene. Maybe it just seems that way to you because Keaton didn't often raise her voice in her movie roles.

She did land some quality dick … and Woody

For some reason I never took a liking to her personally (on talk shows) or her acting. I remember her from The Godfather and First Wives Club - but really never took to her. Sorry to hear of her passing.

What r32 said

She was a movie star for a long, long, long time. loved her acting in all her movies. That Johnny Carson clip made sad. My youthful memories are fading into the wind

RIP talented lady

R53 is correct. Her acting in that scene is positively brilliant.

Even in bad movies, she was still good

[quote] I think Jack Nicholson will probably complete the triumvirate. Redford, Keaton, Jack.

Jack Nicholson is an evil, old narcissist and they live forever.

R59 see also-Trump

But Woody Allen still lives...

Use proper DL protocol for dead people, OP. That’s why your thread, although the first, will not survive.

We were always told that Jane Fonda and Julie Christie were great beauties, and they were. But oh, I thought Diane was spectacularly beautiful in a way that totally outshone anyone else of her generation.

“‘Bearking’ is an inanity: completely devoid of wit, dignity, or originality. It was memed by the lowest-vibration DL crowd. Worse yet, it’s of very recent coinage. Miss Keaton, a major Hollywood star for five decades, deserves our best.

SJP reminds me the most of Diane Keaton. Annie Hall and Carrie Bradshaw were both independent women who defined a generation of women.

I just saw the alert on my phone. Damn it. I truly adored her. RIP to a great lady and a great actress.

I will watch Annie Hall tonight in her honour

I first became aware of her way back in the 1960s when she was an unknown doing TV commercials.

I didn’t know or just plain forgot that she had adopted two children.

I see DL's resident bearking scold has shown up.

R62 = Annie Hall monitor

Agreed, R70. The poster screeching about the title clearly has no friends

Fuck the “Is Dead to Me” “tradition.” It was never amusing.

🐻👑

Same age as my mother who was similar in personality. Sad news.

She wash one of my beshst friendsh.

Worst performance ever in that stupid First Wives movie. She SCREAMED all the way through.

R77 - Goldie Hawn

She was a good egg.

Loved her in Sleeper, Something's Gotta Give (Beautiful house) and a later movie w/Morgan Freeman - Five Flights Up.

She left a wonderful legacy.

Fun fact: Before her film career took off, Diane played a quirky heiress in a 1971 episode of “Mannix.”

Diane probably would have enjoyed the use of "Bearking"

🐻👑♥️ r74 (and OP)

Jill Clayburgh was the poor man's Diane Keaton.

I loved her in Looking For Mr Goodbar and so many others but out of all her work I loved her most in Mrs Soffel .

Did not see that coming. Thanks for the laughs, Diane!

This one hurts.

Nice remembrance from Henry Winkler:

[quote] never thought Keaton would die before those old geezers Beatty, Nicholson and Pacino.

She didn’t.

Huh r88?

The opening scene from Looking For Mr. Goodbar. It's 70s AF.

Except for maybe Pacino the others are not with us, R89

That trailer is everything, r90.

r92 I wasn't even born when that movie was made and I absolutely love it. It is such a time capsule of a certain time and place. And the soundtrack was amazing.

I saw Looking For Mr. Goodbar when it came out and I have no desire to re-visit it.

[quote] Looking For Mr. Goodbar

Is this movie about candy bars? I'm hangry.

Man, I can't decide who wore it best

But I'm feeling Diane Keaton's vest

When The View returns live this week, how many want to bet Whoopi will say, 'This one really hurts' and tell us she was very good friends with her ?

I’m wearing a turtleneck out tonight in her honor

Jack Nicholson is dead?

[quote]Is this movie about candy bars?

No, it's one of the two that she won her Oscar for.

Dammit r98 I OWN that look!

***SLAP***

R92, and looks incredibly modern. I was six at the time but can’t see that without wanting to smoke a cigarette

The movie itself is grim, with bonus points for the firm asses of Richard Gere and Tom Berenger. Iconic acting from Diane.

[quote]but can’t see that without wanting to smoke a cigarette

It's crazy how movies from the 70s make you want to smoke a cigarette and have anonymous sex with a stranger.

R103 Agree - especially those Disney movies. That's why I can no longer watch 'Bedknobs and Broomsticks'.

r104 you just want to be Angela Lansbury.

The song on the Carson show was brilliant. Wish she sang more often. And recorded an album.

On Streisand's 1977 'Superman' album, she recorded the Kim Carnes song 'Love Comes From Unexpected Places'. In the liner notes, she said after recording it, she thought the song would've been appropriate as the 'theme song' to the movie Looking For Mr. Goodbar. Maybe she should have contacted the producers back then and told them ?

Then again, she was asked to record 'Nobody Does It Better' and 'Last Time I Felt Like This' for two other movies back then, and she refused to do movie themes for movies she didn't star in, so maybe she wanted the joy to string them along.

She directed music videos.

I thought it odd that Woody Allen did Bill Maher's podcast last month, since Bill is in LA and Woody in NYC.

I wonder if Woody flew out to California to say good bye to Diane?

Al Pacino recalls memories when Diane was presented with the AFI Lifetime Achievement Award in 2017.

OP, when did ‘bearking’ become a DL obituary thing? I’ve been here for years and never seen it done before. I'm old and forget my passwords, but I’d remember something that dumb. It’s giving low-effort, mean girl energy. Sweetie darling, stop trying to make ‘bearking’ happen.

[Quote]I think Jack Nicholson will probably complete the triumvirate. Redford, Keaton, Jack.

What about me?

Warren Beatty gave her clap, herpes, HPV and cooties. Left untreated...

I can understand why the spokesperson for Diane's death didn't want to give a cause for reasons of privacy, but what possible reason could there be for not giving the date and place of her death?

[Quote] I think Jack Nicholson will probably complete the triumvirate. Redford, Keaton, Jack.

Joanne Woodward, Eva Marie Saint or Dick Van Dyke

R114 Diane KeKe.

R115 Watch God fuck with us and make it Dump, which would be awesome but he definitely doesn’t deserve to occupy their orbit, metaphorically or in any fashion.

R97 😆 Ikr. But the thing is Whoopi is actually friends with these people. They just love her bohemian ass.

[quote]When The View returns live this week, how many want to bet Whoopi will say, 'This one really hurts'

I hope she says that about Fede too.

Estelle Parsons is 97.

[quote]Estelle Parsons is 97.

I hope she's not under the weather.

In the news stories about her death, there are a number of pictures of her from 2023. She looks so vibrant.

That was only 2 years ago. Incredible how our health can change so quickly and so dramatically, especially for older people.

[quote] Estelle Parsons is 97.

And I'm 29. What's your point?

It's amazing that being in the Godfather movies is not the most interesting thing about her career.

Keaton was known as a trailblazer for women in Hollywood who brought a mix of vulnerability and authenticity to her roles. She held leading roles for five decades and four Oscar nominations, including her win for Annie Hall.

She leaves behind her two children, daughter Dexter and son Duke, who she adopted when she was in her 50s. A family spokesperson told the outlet that they are asking for privacy at this time.

Bette Midler, who co-starred with Keaton in The First Wives Club, wrote on Instagram that news of “brilliant, beautiful, extraordinary” Keaton’s death made her “unbearably sad.”

“She was hilarious, a complete original, and completely without guile, or any of the competitiveness one would have expected from such a star. What you saw was who she was…oh, la, lala!” Midler wrote.

not only that, r124, but it's not true.

In Looking for Mr Goodbar when she first meets Richard Gere the book she's reading is The Godfather

R127 is Mario Puzo

Hi Sarah Jessica/r65!!

She made stupid movies like BABY BOOM watchable. So much fun in other films like CRIMES OF THE HEART.

Very good in REDS. GOODBAR. even INTERIORS.

I'll miss her.

I watched Because I Said So the other night - well I tried to - I found her acting on and off ... mostly off. As she aged, there was a quirk to her style and voice that just hit me wrong. Enjoyed her earlier works though. She will be missed.

She even charmed the horrible womanizer Jack Nicholson. He took her on a date to see the Lakers. It was the only time Inhad ever seen Jack publicly with a woman over 35.

What did she see in Jack Nicholson and especially Woody Allen? Al Pacino is more her league.

[quote] but what possible reason could there be for not giving the date and place of her death?

It was yesterday morning.

Someone in the TMZ comment section is trying to blame "the Covid jab" for her death

Ugh

Idiotic people try to blame every death on the Covid shot in comments Even suicides from jumping from windows and car accidents.

[quote] What did she see in Jack Nicholson and especially Woody Allen? Al Pacino is more her league.

What do you mean? They were all funny and successful men. Funny and successful men attract many women.

She’s hardly a conventional person.

She was quaint

R37 u forgot Sally Field.

R68- That particular commercial is from the 1970's not the 1960's.

It never occurred to me that this could happen. Shit!

Keaton’s health, according to her friend, “declined very suddenly” in the months leading up to her death.

Broad spectrum antibiotics?

Probably Tylenol, r143

She really loved those WIDE leather cinch belts.

[quote]Someone in the TMZ comment section is trying to blame "the Covid jab" for her death.]

Someone please remind me again of how unfair I'm being by calling MAGAts morons.