New Yorker editor David Remnick referred to as B.S. on Barbra Streisand’s declare that she will’t keep in mind whether or not she ever had intercourse Warren Beatty, considered one of Hollywood’s most famously seductive heartthrobs.
Streisand made that declare in her current memoir, “My Name is Barbra,” to which Remnick mentioned to her in a brand new interview this week: “Possibly the greatest line in the whole book, to my mind, is you say you can’t remember if you slept with Warren Beatty. Now, I don’t think anyone has ever written that line in the history of sex, or Hollywood, or anything.”
MALIBU, CA – JUNE 02: Barbra Streisand attends the CHANEL Dinner Celebrating Our Majestic Oceans, A Profit For NRDC on June 2, 2018 in Malibu, California. (Picture by Wealthy Fury/Getty Photographs)
The 83-year-old “Funny Girl” legend mentioned about her Hollywood up to date: “I know I slept in the bed with him, but I can’t remember if we actually had penetration. I swear to God, I can’t. There are certain things I block out.”
Remnick wasn’t having it, telling the multi-award-winning actor, singer and director: “I didn’t think I would ever say this in my entire life, but it might be that I’m calling (expletive) on Barbra Streisand. Is that possible?”
Once more, Streisand insisted she actually can’t keep in mind ever having intercourse with Beatty, although she mentioned they’ve been mates for many years, ever since they first met earlier than both of them turned well-known — when she was 15 and he was 21 within the late Nineteen Fifties.
Maybe, Remnick ought to have reached out to the “Bonnie and Clyde” star to ask if he remembers having intercourse with Streisand. Then once more, the 88-year-old Beatty has by no means been recognized to be ungentlemanly sufficient to dish about any of his sexual conquests.
US actress Annette Bening and husband US actor Warren Beatty attend the 73rd Annual Tony Awards at Radio Metropolis Music Corridor on June 9, 2019 in New York Metropolis. (Picture by Angela Weiss / AFP) (Picture by ANGELA WEISS/AFP by way of Getty Photographs)
It’s additionally potential that Beatty can’t keep in mind sleeping with Streisand both as a result of the Oscar-winning director and actor supposedly slept with numerous girls, beginning as a younger star within the early Sixties and persevering with by way of 1991 when he married Anette Bening and slipped into a lifetime of fatherhood and reported monogamy. Throughout these a long time, he was linked to greater than 100 feminine celebrities, together with Leslie Caron, Joan Collins, Natalie Wooden, Julie Christie, Diane Keaton and Madonna.
“Warren has probably been with everybody I know,” Cher as soon as mentioned.
In 2010, Beatty’s biographer Peter Biskind estimated that the variety of girls Beatty had slept with may very well be as excessive as 12,275, in line with The Guardian. In his e-book, “Star: How Warren Beatty Seduced America,” Biskind mentioned he arrived at this determine with “simple arithmetic.” He calculated the variety of days between Beatty shedding his virginity at age 19 to when he married Bening, and assumed that Beatty bedded a special lady every day.
Though Biskind is considered a revered, achieved movie author, his logic about Beatty’s intercourse life was thought-about questionable on the time, The Guardian mentioned. And, Beatty refuted the 12,275 quantity in a 2016 interview with the AARP journal.
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Barbra Streisand stars within the comedy “What’s Up Doc?,” which will likely be screened at SF Sketchfest in honor of its forty fifth anniversary.
Beatty insisted that his Don Juan fame was wildly exaggerated and that he couldn’t probably have had intercourse with so many ladies. “Think about it, sleeping with 12,775 people,” Beatty mentioned, “not without a certain amount of glee,” AARP journal reported.
Beatty mentioned: “That would mean not just that there were multiple people a day, but that there was no repetition.”
However Beatty didn’t provide AARP a extra doubtless variety of lovers, even when simply as just a few hundred. The AARP author requested the “Shampoo” actor why none of those girls ever obtained mad sufficient that they determined to promote their story about him to the tabloids.
“Look, I never misled anyone,” Beatty advised AARP along with his well-known appeal. “And … and I’m a nice guy.”
Streisand actually appears to suppose Beatty is a pleasant man, as she advised Remnick: “I know we’re still friends. Every year on my birthday, he calls me and we have a wonderful talk about our lives, our children, and so forth.”
