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Posted by David Hepworth on 4 January 2010 - 6:23pm.
A new biography of Warren Beatty estimates that he has slept with 12,775 women in the course of his 72 years. Apparently this does not include "daytime quickies, drive-bys, casual gropings, stolen kisses," Is that possible?
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and he presumably "stopped"
in 1991 when he got married? so that's only 40 years assuming he was early developer.
To get to that number...
he'd have had to have been trying to cop off with his umbilical cord. Methinks this number is possibly inaccurate.
'Estimated' numbers
I'm always suspicious of estimated numbers quoted to 5 significant figures. The 12775 quoted is 'one-a-day' for 35 years. Pretty 'estimated' in my book.
Nice to know he took leap year days off though.
Drive-bys?
I'm pretty sure that one's impossible.
We ARE talking about America
Right?
Given the modern age of google and such how long do you reckon it would take the Enquirer to trace these women and rate him on his performance?
a "Drive by"
does bring to mind the porridge sketch where fletch has to see the doctor and is asked to fill a specimum bottle and answers "what from here......
And ANYTHING'S possible in America,
right?
What's this biography called?
Beatty Around The Bush?
Sorry.
I didn't know
she'd met him.
"Drive By"......
that must be one of Tiger's moves........
"Drive-by"?
Don't you mean lay-by?
So let's say
he started at 16. That's 193 different women every year!!
yep everyone he's met most likely
except maybe the Queen and Mother Theresa.
Only 193 a year ?
pah !
In his pomp...
...I can well imagine he scored every time he went out. And probably with more than one woman each night - well it'd be rude not to - so that has to work out at 5 a week on average, minimum. 260 a year sounds plausible.
His conquests must pale in comparison with gay men with gargantuan social lives, which I gather can involve multiple liaisons frequently.
How lovely.
Homophobic stereotyping in our midst.
Sorry to offend
I have to say that was not my intention at all; sorry it came across like that.
Many years ago....
...I shared a flat with a couple of members of what was then called The Gay Liberation Front Youth Group and you would have to have been blind not to notice the differences in what we might call "courtship rituals". Some of the most energetic promoters of gay stereotypes, in my experience, are gay friends.
Joke told to me by a gay man
I went to the recruiting office to join the army. They asked me if I could kill a man.
Mmm. Eventually...
Boom tish!
What a
slag
OMG! LOL!
That was funny. Thanks.
Wilt Chamberlain
The former NBA player, nicknamed 'The Stilt' (He was 7' 1"), claimed to have had over 20,000 !!!
It will explain
why he appears not to read scripts before he accepts film roles.
No wonder
he's so vain.
He probably thinks this post is about him
Not a second time...
Statistics like this remind me of the comeback to (I think) Peter Stringfellow, whose own numerical prowess was met with a comment along the lines of 'So, not many of them felt the desire to come back for a second helping, then.'
I feel the need to state for the record,
that I am a woman, and I have never slept with Warren Beatty.
not even
a "stolen kiss" round the back of the Merrion Centre...
How many of those 12,775...
said to him "I love you."?
88 mph
I am a woman and I too have never slept with Warren Beattie. Though now I know I probably could have I'm feverishly working on building a working time machine.
nope
I've never slept with him either. Actually quite repulsed by the idea.
I Met Him Once
We talked for about 15 minutes at some film do in the early '90s. Even then, when he must have been in his early 50s, he struck me as incredibly good-looking though a tad dull. I seem to remember he banged on about the media's obsession with box office takings, and made a few suggestions for how to improve Empire, the mag I was editing at the time. I resisted the temptation to tell him how to fix some of his films, and we left it at that.
I have to ask
But was he shagging someone at the same time?
No, but I bet his eyes were scanning the room over
Barney's shoulder.
12,775?
Milk's not the only thing that comes in pints, then.
for the people of the Central Asian Steppes with an interest ...
... in the 1970s NYC punk scene, love comes in yurts
/coat
"oh no, it hurts!"
(no wonder!)
Reminds me of a joke...
Husband to wife - "The milkman's boasting he's had every woman in our road except one!"
Wife - "I bet it's that snotty bitch at number twelve!"
Where's my coat?
Rather puts
Nick 'Lothario' Clegg's 35 in the poor place.
But, but
that was at one party. Bloody students...
An office person claimed 10,000
On behalf of his brother, who was in his late 20s. When confronted with the statistical improbability of this, his response was "ahaaa...but you don't know my brother".
Wouldn't it have...
...rotted, worn out or fallen off at some point in that lifelong marathon?
So vain to no vein, if you will.
"Doctor,
- my wife's a nymphomaniac and demands it 5 times a night, plus I'm having an affair with my secretary who's equally demanding and we end up doing it in my office, in the stationery cupboard, the car park..."
"Er, I see - but what exactly is the problem?"
"Well, when I masturbate I feel slightly faint"
I remember an interview I read once...
... with Dustin Hoffman.
The memorable quote was along the lines of "anyone who thinks I haven't done as well with women as Warren Beatty and Jack Nicholson is wrong."
That means 38,325 women between the three of them if this figure and Mr Hoffman's boasting is accurate.
If anything it explains Ishtar, Love Affair, Town and Country, Reds and many other crappy films. He was just distracted when he agreed to do them
Reds
isn't crap
To quote Jake Thackray
Surely, after 12775 conquests wouldn't it be like posting a letter or stirring your tea? Everything gets boring eventually, even taking starlets to heaven and back. I'd imagine.
What can he say?
He's a giver.
who remembers the sketch
in which a reporter on a film set was talking to the camera and Warren Beatty's motorhome was shown continuously rocking in the background, I think sheep were involved. Which show was that?
Warren's done OK, but..
I remember a documentary about one of the pioneering Californian surfers who lived extremely fast and died very young. He was a bit of a spoiled rich boy but tall, muscular and very good-loking. And a fine surfer. With somewhat of an eye for the girlies.
I forget the exact statistics but it was something along the lines of an average of five different girls PER DAY for the ten year period before he died. Probably of exhaustion. Bet they struggled to nail the lid of the coffin down. I've been trying to search for him to get the statistics but have had no joy.
Simple Arithmetic
72 years : assume he started at 12 (for ease of counting)
60 x 365 = 21,900 nights in his span - approx 60% hit rate. Assuming no "return visits"
As was said of a friend of mine (who fancied himself as a lothario, and was rather hurt when he heard this phrase) - "He's been called many things but he's never been called fussy".
If he can...
...sleep with 12,775 women in one lifetime, I'm a bit concerned by what he might regard as a 'casual' groping.
Is it worth pointing out
that if this estimate were being bandied about (it is estimate by an author) for say Madonna the whole tone of the thing would be different.
Also assuming he and his partners used contraception the failure rate for most forms is 1-3% (I believe) he will have 130 approx. little Warrens & Warreens running around. In fact his name his very appropriate thinking about it now.
Condom failure
I think the failure rate (that is sex resulting in conception despite use of condoms) isn't 1-3% of occaisions used, but 1-3% over the course a year for a couple using no other means of contraception.
I think when you get to Warren's level
of "testing" we are in new areas of research but you're right i had that distiction in the back of my mind. But I still bet a Jnr Beatty remake of "Shampoo" would be on the cards and also god help us "Dick Tracey"!
Warren says it's all bollocks
Well, sort of....
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/news/theres-no-way-i-have-slept...
Woody Allen's...
..gag(in Sleeper I think) about wanting to be reincarnated as "Warren Beatty's fingertips".Sensory overload.
Some (mid-90s, Swedish) stats
http://polymer.bu.edu/hes/articles/leasa01.pdf
on Front row Biskind
claims Warren had a "sabbatical" while he shot "Reds" to channel his energies into his work"! So his average just went up again by 9 months at least.
Also hats off to Peter Biskind for promoting his book so well!