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The Girl Who Never Wanted to Be Ordinary: The Life of Diane Keaton
On October 11, 2025, Diane Keaton died at her home in Los Angeles. She was 79. The news arrived without warning — she had not been seen for months, and the family asked for privacy — and Hollywood’s grief was immediate and enormous. Al Pacino, Francis Ford Coppola, Robert De Niro, Goldie Hawn, Keanu Reeves,…
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La-Dee-Dah: How Diane Keaton Accidentally Reinvented the Romantic Comedy
On April 3, 1978, at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion in Los Angeles, a small, shaggy romantic comedy with a $4-million budget beat Star Wars for Best Picture. That sentence should be impossible. Yet when the envelope was opened at the 50th Academy Awards, it was Annie Hall — a talky, neurotic, gloriously odd little film…