Word: keaton
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...tell you the truth, I just don't have a clue," says Bette Midler. "But I'm so excited I couldn't care less." "Do you believe it?" asks Diane Keaton, "I just thought it was going to be a nice comedy," she says. Only Goldie Hawn asserts that while she didn't necessarily expect such success, "I totally get it." The movie, she feels, is about "that primordial thing that men feel and women innately know." And that is? The consequences of the male impulse "to just walk around and impregnate and spread their seed...
Director Hugh Wilson (Guarding Tess) took the helm and thought the script was "too fluffy." He proposed big changes (in his version, for example, Keaton's child is retarded). "I wanted to make it more realistic and, I thought, funnier," he recalls. "I was saying, 'It's too easy; they all have money. What does a woman do who doesn't have money? And why the hell do they just have two children [among them]?' I thought it should be more in line with the average person." Now he says in relief, "Thank God I got talked...
...parallels her character's, Midler (still on her first marriage) says she relates to the first wife's plight. "I always read the papers, and I keep up with all the great divorces, and I am as chagrined and appalled as the next person," she declares. The never married Keaton has been linked in the past with Warren Beatty and Woody Allen, both of whom have gone through their share of women. But Keaton reports that her romances were "nothing like in this movie." Hawn, longtime roommate of Kurt Russell (she has paid alimony to an ex-husband), says...
...trio, Hawn's character clings most tenaciously to youth, but the actress herself says she wasn't worried about showing her years onscreen. "What are you trying to protect?" she asks. "A career? A perception? I mean, we've been around the block a hundred times. What the hell?" Keaton agrees: "I can't play the younger babe. I was just happy to have the part, and I'm not kidding...
...aging ("If I give you one more face-lift," Dr. Rob Reiner warns Hawn, "you're gonna be able to blink your lips") that make the movie a more genteel version of the misogynistic She-Devil and Death Becomes Her. And the audience applauds when Midler, Hawn and Diane Keaton take comic revenge on their duplicitous mates. In movie theaters around the country, similar crowds registered similar approval for the movie--enough to set Hollywood to scratching its (male) head and to give women moviegoers cause to hope for more films like...