#diane-keaton

#diane-keaton

In the days following Diane Keaton's death at 79, fans, friends, and fellow actors have remembered the screen icon with touching tributes and personal memories. Now, Keaton's family is opening up about how she died and sharing one meaningful way fans can honor the late star. Diane Keaton's Cause Of Death In a new statement to People, Keaton's family shared that the mom of two died of pneumonia on Oct. 11.

There was nobody like her. Bright, talented, generous, and very smart and witty. She had more than just a sense of humour; she was hysterical. Whatever it was, she just had it. The first time I saw her was in a deodorant commercial where she bit somebody's ear. Everything about her was original. I'd be interested in anything she was involved in because she was so keen and so smart and so witty.

She published her first memoir, Then Again, in 2011, as well as 2014's Let's Just Say It Wasn't Pretty, 2020's Brother & Sister, and 2024's Fashion First. Speaking to NPR about her writing in November 2011, she explained that it helped keep her from bottling up her feelings. "When you think about my fame, it was really that I became famous for being an inarticulate woman in a Woody Allen movie," she said, "but I found a way to express myself through words."

Diane Keaton had been an icon since before I was even born; who was I to direct her? To fill her head with my dialogue? To give her a note, suggesting: It might be even funnier if you tried ? And yet, as she towered over me in sky-high Gucci platform booties, she never made me feel even one inch less tall as I guided her through what would wind up being her final film.

She was very nice to me. [A] generous, generous artist and a very special, unique person.

How do we say goodbye? What words can come to mind when your heart is broken? You never liked praise, so humble, but now you can't tell me to "shut up" honey. There was, and will be, no one like you,

Diane Keaton always knew she didn't fit the mold of the classical beautiful movie star and lamented, before she was even in high school, that the attractive genes in her family had passed on to her two younger sisters. But the Oscar-winning Keaton, who died Saturday at age 79, came to be known as a world-class beauty and a fashion icon in her own way,

Our love of her films is pretty much the only cultural taste I inherited from her. I was about 10 when she first let me watch a VHS off the grown-up shelf. She picked Baby Boom. I might wonder what the appeal of a film about a high-flying 80s businesswoman inheriting a baby was to a kid were it not so plainly funny, spanning Keaton's talents from screwball to synonymous with comfort, and a curious lens on adult life.

"I mean, do I really care if a handful of my poems are read after I'm gone forever? Is that supposed to be some kind of compensation? I used to think it was. Now, for some reason...I can't seem to shake the real implication of dying," says Diane Keaton to her unseen therapist, to us, in 1978's " Interiors." She's red-eyed from tears and gripping a cigarette like a life raft. When she's on screen, she's the entire movie. That was how it was, even during her last buddy comedies in her final years of life.

For queer people though, there's a distinct selection of Keaton films that have shaped and inspired them more than any others. gained gay cult classic status in 1996 for its camp lesbian bar scene and queer representation in Annie's daughter, Chris. 2005's The Family Stone, in which Keaton played the mother of a gay and deaf son, was praised for its powerful, affirmative dinner table scene. The following year she dropped Surrender, Dorothy, featuring a dragged up Chris Pine.

Diane Keaton appeared in 60 films, performed more than two dozen television parts, earned four Best Actress Oscar nominations (and one win, for 1977's), accrued multiple directing credits (including an episode of ), and wielded seismic influence on women's fashion. All of it was driven by a quest to understand and embody beauty - a word that haunted her since her father told her on her 15th birthday that she was pretty. Keaton didn't want to be pretty. She wanted to be beautiful.

Keaton's character, Kay Adams-Corleone, is one of the few main female characters to grace the silver screen in the film. Her scene in the beginning of the film is one to remember: Sitting at a table with Al Pacino's character, Michael Corleone, she is regaled the tale of Vito Corleone's mobster cruelty. The scene, just shy of a minute and a half long, has been replayed on YouTube thousands upon thousands of times.

Diane, we aren't ready to lose you. You've left us with a trail of fairy dust, filled with particles of light and memories beyond imagination. How do we say goodbye? What words can come to mind when your heart is broken? You never liked praise, so humble, but now you can't tell me to 'shut up' honey. There was, and will be, no one like you.

Her activism included efforts to save the Ennis House, an iconic 1920s residence in the Hollywood Hills that was designed by the famed architect Frank Lloyd Wright. The Northridge earthquake in 1994 and heavy rains a decade later caused significant damage. The National Trust for Historic Preservation placed the house on its 2005 list of America's 11 Most Endangered Historic Places. It was partially restored by the nonprofit Ennis House Foundation, then was purchased and fully restored in 2011. According to the Frank Lloyd Wright Building Conservancy, Keaton called on the Hollywood community to help save the house, which has been featured in numerous films, and eventually joined the Ennis House Foundation board.

The millpond calm of her face, its beauty, its gentleness, its openness and unworldliness became even more heart stopping when she laughed or cried and generations of moviegoers felt their own crush on Diane Keaton escalate into something more. She was more than America's sweetheart: Keaton was the sophisticated, sweet-natured, unaffectedly sensual woman with whom America was unrequitedly in love.

It's hard to believe...or accept...that Diane has passed. She was always a spark of life and light, constantly giggling at her own foibles, being limitlessly creative...in her acting, her wardrobe, her books, her friends, her homes, her library. Unique is what she was. And, though she didn't know it or wouldn't admit it, man she was a fine actress!