Diane Keaton
I am an unapologetic Woody Allen fan, and I loved Diane Keaton since I first saw her in Annie Hall when I was a high school junior, and started tracking back through her earlier stuff, which got screened fairly frequent at the student theater at Vanderbilt University, so saw Love and Death soon after Annie Hall, and I have followed her pretty closely ever since then. She went off on some pretty strange tangents, including the sex addict of Looking for Mr Goodbar, and the strange espionage of The Little Drummer Girl.
Woo boy, has she done some stinkers, but her best ten are among the very best among all current movie actors. I still think her best stuff is as Woody’s muse. If only she had been 30 years younger, they might still be together.
Ten best roles: 10) Crimes of the Heart 9) The Godfather Part III 8) Play It Again Sam 7) Manhattan Murder Mystery 6) The Godfather Part II 5) Sleeper 4) Reds 3) Love and Death 2) Manhattan 1) Annie Hall
Percentile rating: 98.79
Peak period: 1972 – 1977
Neighborhood: George Clooney, Albert Finney, Mel Gibson, Tom Hanks, Anthony Hopkins, William Hurt
June 6th, 2009 at 11:33 pm
“She stinks just standing there”
A line I (Jack Immel) coined. Originally about Melanie Griffith but if the shoe fits… ( I’m trying to claim that one too)