Talk:Warren Beatty/References

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*Henry Warren Beaty 
**Claim that his birth name had only one t from IMDB bio.
**E!Online bio disagrees.
**Moviedose bio agrees with IMDB.
**Amburn bio agrees. (p. 2, "he added the extra "t" when he became an actor")
*(born March 30, 1937 in Richmond, Virginia)
**IMDB
*now known as Warren Beatty, is an American actor, producer, screenwriter, and director.
**Self-evident, from rest of article.
*He long had a reputation as a womanizer and playboy, 
**IMDB; "Beatty is almost as famous for his love life as he is for his movie-making"
*but that reputation has faded since his 1992 marriage. 
**allmovie.com; "Beatty's ... history of high-profile romances ... came to an abrupt end upon his 1992 marriage" - Not sure how convicing this is...
*The Academy Awards honored him with the Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award in 2000,
**Academy's database.
*presented by his close friend Jack Nicholson,
**Caption on photograph at muzi.com "Warren Beatty is presented the Irving Thalberg Award by Jack Nicholson" 
*while in 2004 he received Kennedy Center Honor.
**Offical site list of past honoress
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*Beatty was born to an American father whose family had lived in Virginia for several centuries,
**Amburn bio backs up most of this: p. 2 "Ira Owens Beaty [Warren's father] a boozer from Front Royal, a small town in Virginia"
*and a Canadian mother 
**Amburn bio; p. 2 "marrying a quiet, thin Canadian"
*of half Scottish and half Irish descent;
**Unreferenced.
*the family was devoutly Baptist.
** adherents.com claims "Warren Beatty was raised in a devout, churchgoing Baptist family.", and gives the source as "Ellis Amburn, The Sexiest Man Alive: A Biography of Warren Beatty, HarperCollins Publishers: New York (2002), page 3."; book source not verified yet.
** Amburn bio confirmed: p. 3 "settled for respectable middle-class Baptist family life." and "a strict Baptist atmosphere".
*His sister is Shirley MacLaine.
**IMDB, and many others.
*Beatty got his start in film under Elia Kazan's direction and opposite Natalie Wood in Splendor in the Grass (1961)
**IMDB, and others.
*though he had previous television experience in The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis (1959).
**IMDB
*At age 30 he achieved critical acclaim and power as a producer and star of Bonnie and Clyde (1967),
**age self-evident, IMDB; "the movie that would elevate his status in Hollywood, the classic Bonnie and Clyde (1967)", listed as a producer on IMDB page for the movie.
*which was nominated for 10 Academy Awards.
**Count of list on IMDB page for the movie.
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*Subsequent Beatty films include McCabe & Mrs. Miller (1971), The Parallax View (1974), Shampoo (1975), and Heaven Can Wait (1978).
**IMDB.
*The last film gave him the box-office power he hadn't had since Bonnie & Clyde. 
**Amburn bio mostly supports this: p. 229 "his least venturesome film [Heaven Can Wait] became one of his most successful"
*He used this to make Reds (1981),
**Unreferenced
*Reds (1981), a historical epic about famed Communist journalist John Reed in the Russian Revolution. It won Academy Awards for Best Director, Best Cinematography, and Best Actress in a Supporting Role while losing Best Picture to Chariots of Fire. It was nominated for eight other Oscars
**Wikipedia article Reds (which should contain sources for these assertions, but doesn't, AFAIK, as of 06:30, 30 January 2006 (UTC)