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...Beatty's sacting career. He has not made artistic progress in his more recent films, seemingly surrendering to his press image as another pretty-faced glamour boy. The promise of his career as seen in his earlier, more substantial roles, in films like Splendour in the Grass, Bonnie and Clyde, McCabe and Mrs. Miller, and The Parallax View appears undeveloped in his more recent roles as George, the heartily-sexed hairdresser in Shampoo and as Joe Pendleton in this film...
...least. Bonnie and Clyde became a classic of '60s pop culture and the year's highest grossing film. Beatty became an international culture hero. Visiting France after the movie opened there, he found that "people everywhere were dressed like Bonnie and Clyde; it was the pervasive theme." And Beatty was celebrated as its prophet. At haul monde parties in Paris, he recalls, "you would be seated at a table with Maurice Chevalier on one side, Arthur Rubinstein on the other and Mr. and Mrs. Pompidou across the candlesticks. There were old men with beautiful young girls?not one but clusters...
After the Bonnie and Clyde hysteria died down, Beatty acted only occasionally. His single memorable performance was in Robert Altman's McCabe and Mrs. Miller (1971); it was also his first appearance opposite Julie Christie, who had been the most important woman in his life since...
...Godfather, The Way We Were, The Great Gatsby and The Sting. Once the campaign was over, Beatty got to work producing and starring in Shampoo, a trenchant social comedy about a randy Beverly Hills hairdresser. Its sexual frankness was almost as hotly debated as the violence in Bonnie and Clyde, but it was enormously successful...
Beatty is not contemplating any changes in his ways. If he has any personal complaints, they are only about the drudgery of producing. "I enjoyed it the first time, on Bonnie and Clyde," he says, "because I wanted to see if I could play with the big boys. But, you know, they don't look that big after you've been playing with them." The prospect of running for public office also has lost some appeal for him, though he doesn't rule it out altogether. "The relationship between theater and politics fascinates me," he says. "They both communicate ideas...