By StephanieLee Elliott
FROM WIKIPEDIA COMMONS
Henry Warren Beatty (né Beaty; born March 30, 1937) is an American actor and filmmaker. His career has spanned over six decades, and he has received an Academy Award and three Golden Globe Awards. He also received the Irving G. Thalberg Award in 1999, the BAFTA Fellowship in 2002, the Kennedy Center Honors in 2004, the Cecil B. DeMille Award in 2007, and the AFI Life Achievement Award in 2008.
Beatty has been nominated for 14 Academy Awards, including four for Best Actor, four for Best Picture, two for Best Director, three for Original Screenplay, and one for Adapted Screenplay – winning Best Director for Reds (1981). He was nominated for his performances as Clyde Barrow in the crime drama Bonnie and Clyde (1967), a quarterback mistakenly taken to heaven in the sports fantasy drama Heaven Can Wait (1978), John Reed in the historical epic Reds (1981), and Bugsy Siegel in the crime drama Bugsy (1991), the later three of which he also directed.
Beatty made his acting debut as a teenager in love in the Elia Kazan drama Splendor in the Grass (1961). He later acted in John Frankenheimer‘s drama All Fall Down (1962), Robert Altman‘s revisionist western McCabe & Mrs. Miller (1971), Alan J. Pakula‘s political thriller The Parallax View (1974), Hal Ashby‘s comedy Shampoo (1975), and Elaine May‘s road movie Ishtar (1987). He also directed and starred in the action crime film Dick Tracy (1990), the political satire Bulworth (1998), and the romance Rules Don’t Apply (2016), all of which he also produced.
On stage, Beatty made his Broadway debut in the William Inge kitchen sink drama A Loss of Roses (1960) for which he was nominated for the Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Play.
Beatty’s older sister is actress, dancer and writer Shirley MacLaine. His uncle by marriage was Canadian politician A.A. MacLeod.
Beatty has been married to actress Annette Bening since 1992. They have four children, including actress Ella Beatty.
TODAY’S ALMANAC
The fourth Sunday of Lent was traditionally a break from the austere rigors of the season, and on that day boys living away from home, such as apprentices or students, were allowed to return home to visit their mothers. It was customary for them to bring a simnel—a highly spiced fruitcake—as a present. The visit was termed “going a-mothering,” and on this occasion the mother bestowed a blessing upon her child.
Question of the Day
Advice of the Day
Home Hint of the Day
Word of the Day
Puzzle of the Day
Born
- Moses Maimonides (rabbi) –
- Anna Sewell (author) –
- Vincent van Gogh (Dutch artist ) –
- Sean O’Casey (playwright) –
- Jo Davidson (sculptor) –
- Warren Beatty (actor) –
- Eric Clapton (musician) –
- Tracy Chapman (musician) –
- Celine Dion (singer) –
- Secretariat (racehorse) –
- Norah Jones (singer) –
- Scott Moffatt (musician, of The Moffatts) –
- Anna Nalick (musician) –
Died
- Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother (Britain’s beloved “Queen Mum” was the mother of Queen Elizabeth II) –
- Timi Yuro (singer) –
Events
- President Washington proclaimed boundary of new capital city on Potomac River –
- Dr. Crawford Long of Jefferson, GA, placed an ether-soaked towel over the face of James Venable and removed a tumor from his neck. This was the first recorded use of anesthesia –
- H. L. Lipman, of Philadelphia, patented the first pencil with eraser –
- America bought Alaska from Russia due to pressure from Secretary of State William Seward (Seward’s Folly). The price was $7.2 million, or slightly more than $0.02 an acre –
- Impeachment trial of President Andrew Johnson began –
- Texas readmitted to the Union –
- Queensboro Bridge, the first double-decker, opened in New York City –
- Official opening of Canada’s first subway (Toronto) –
- Woody Guthrie’s song This Land is Your Land copyrighted –
- Jeopardy! game show made its television debut –
- The last rum ration was issued in the Royal Canadian Navy –
- President Ronald Reagan was shot and wounded outside a Washington, D.C., hotel –
- An anonymous buyer paid over $39 million for Vincent van Gogh’s Sunflowers –
- Possible UFO seen, Little Fox Lake, Yukon Territory –
- Superathletes Kirill Shimko and Pavel Soroka pulled five railway cars more than 20 feet –
Weather
- Hurricane-force winds uprooted trees and brought high tides to the coast and heavy snows inland from Pennsylvania to Maine –
- In North Dakota, heavy rain and snowmelt around Fargo produced severe flooding –
- A line of thunderstorms and tornadoes tore up homes and knocked down power lines in Kansas, Missouri, Iowa, and Nebraska –
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