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Toddler Chic
“I had one problem with my
mom—she would cut
my bangs too short, and
I hated it,” Keaton says.
“I like those glasses, though.
I could use them now.”
Big-Hair Days
“In high school I was consumed
by hairspray. I refused to be in
the wind. I look like an idiot.”
Age of
Aquarius
After winning a role
in Hair on Broadway
in 1968, Keaton was
told to lose weight.
“That was the
start of my bulimia
period,” she says.
“I became a master
at hiding. Analysis
got me out of it.”
Afew days before she
accepted her Lifetime
Achievement Award
from theAmericanFilm
Institute, Diane Keaton
was a bundle of nerves. What if she
stopped the show—and not in a good way?
The event “goes on endlessly, and then
I have to speak,” she told People. “What
I would like to do is drink, but I don’t
want to weave up there and fall down!”
Luckily, she remained upright
through the star-studded June 8 gala,
which airs June 15 on TNT, as peers
including Meryl Streep and her ex
Woody Allen paid tribute. “I’m honored,
but it’s like a retirement party!”
jokes Keaton, 71. Sure, Streep got the
award 13 years ago, and she’s hardly out
to pasture, “but that’s Meryl,” Keaton
says. “Some of us are more . . . human.”
That humanness, of course, goes a long
way toward explaining Keaton’s success.
From Annie Hall through Something’s
Gotta Give, the L.A. native has projected a
kooky, relatable vulnerability.
There’s
also her acting skill
and comic genius—
but she downplays
those. “I don’t know
what playing a character
means,” she
says. “What I really
do is the best I can
do with me.”
‘I tried
modeling
classes,
but they
weren’t
for me.
I was gonna
go my
own way’
Married to
the Mob
Though she and
Al Pacino never
wed, Keaton played
his wife in 1972’s
The Godfather
and counts him
among her “many
loves.” “Look at
that laugh. How
adorable is he? But
Ihatedthatwig.
It was two times as
big as my head.”
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