Beloved actress Diane Keaton, famed for her roles in The Godfather trilogy and Annie Hall, has died at the age of 79.
Keaton, a celebrated and prolific actress, earned an Academy Award for Best Actress for Annie Hall, along with a BAFTA, two Golden Globes, and nominations for Emmys and a Tony, showing her ability to balance humor with emotion. She appeared in numerous other films, including Woody Allen’s Manhattan and all three Godfather movies, playing Kay, Michael Corleone’s wife.
Tributes poured in from stars such as Reese Witherspoon, Jane Fonda, Goldie Hawn, and Steve Martin, who remembered her as “a truly original person.”
Keaton’s death came as a shock, although she had largely stepped back from public life in recent years.
Following her sudden passing, her friend, Grammy and Oscar-winning songwriter Carole Bayer Sager, recalled her final meeting with Keaton, sharing with People that the two had met “two or three weeks ago,” and that Diane had “lost so much weight.”
Keaton was spending most of her time in Palm Springs after the devastating California fires. “She had to go to Palm Springs because her house had been damaged inside, and they had to clean everything. She was down there for a while, and when she came back, I was kind of stunned by how much weight she’d lost,” Sager said, adding that Keaton was “a magic light for everyone.”
Sager added that even in her later years, Keaton never missed a chance to flaunt her stylish outfits. “She went to the movies always dressed like she was about to shoot another scene for Annie Hall,” she continued. “She’d wear her hats and her jackets and her baggy pants, and her belts, she was a fashion icon of her own making.”
Bette Midler also paid tribute to her dear friend on Instagram, calling Keaton “brilliant, beautiful, and extraordinary.”
“I cannot tell you how unbearably sad this makes me. She was hilarious, a complete original, and completely without guile or any of the competitiveness one would have expected from such a star. What you saw was who she was…oh, la, lala!” Middler wrote.
She added: “She lived exactly how she wanted to, which was on her own terms, surrounded by the people and things she really loved.
“In these last few years, she kept a close circle, and she liked it that way. She was funny right up until the end and she had this way of making even ordinary moments feel special. That was just who she was.”
Keaton’s fellow co-star Goldie Hawn wrote, “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.
“You stole the hearts of the world and shared your genius with millions, making films that made us laugh and cry in ways only you could.”
Actor Ben Stiller paid tribute on X, writing: “Diane Keaton. One of the greatest film actors ever. An icon of style, humor and comedy. Brilliant. What a person.”
Keaton left a lasting legacy as an Oscar-winning, iconic actress whose career spanned decades.
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Prince William & Harry’s bitter feud was ‘triggered by brutal childhood comment’, according to an insider
Late Princess Diana made her sons promise her that they would be friends forever, and truth is, the two brothers did share a close bond growing up, but during the last couple of years, that changed drastically.
Ever since Harry and Meghan stepped down from their royal duties and moved to the States, the relationship between Harry and the rest of the royals, including William, has gone downhills. It was mainly because of the interviews the Duke of Sussex gave in which he accused his family of a number of things. Their relationship became even worse when Harry published his all-tell memoir Spare.
Among the rest, Harry detailed a meeting in his book with William during which he had called his wife, Meghan, “abrasive,” “rude,” and “difficult,” something Harry referred to as to “parroting the press narrative.”
Allegedly, things escalated and Harry described how William “grabbed me by the collar, ripping my necklace, and … knocked me to the floor.”
“He set down the water, called me another name, then came at me. It all happened so fast. So very fast. He grabbed me by the collar, ripping my necklace, and he knocked me to the floor. I landed on the dog’s bowl, which cracked under my back, the pieces cutting into me. I lay there for a moment, dazed, then got to my feet and told him to get out,” Harry wrote.
According to a friend of William, the brother’s relationship is at a such low point that William is considering excluding Harry from his coronation when he becomes king. “They are estranged, which is dreadfully sad,” the source told The Times.
However, royal expert and author Christopher Andersen told Fox he is “convinced” that the Duke will be there. “Despite all the bad blood between the brothers, I’m convinced that, when the time does come, William will not be foolish enough to exclude his only sibling, now fifth in line to the throne, from his coronation,” Andersen said.
“Things probably have never been worse between the brothers than they are now. William and Charles have pretty much made the joint decision to effectively cut Harry out of their lives, at least for the time being. There is no sign of a reconciliation on the horizon, and everyone involved seems to have pretty much come to terms with that.”
While the brothers seemed to be getting along until the family feud and the Sussexes departure from the royal family, Princess Diana’s former butler, Paul Burrell, claims Harry’s feelings of being the “spare” might have been triggered all the way back when they were children.
He suggested that the cause might have been something like the nanny showing preference for William, who was — and remains — the future king.
“I heard one of the nannies say to William, ‘I’m going to give you three sausages, William. You need to grow big and strong, because you’re going to be king one day,’” Burrell said.
Burrell, who started working at Buckingham Palace when he was 18 and later became King Charles’ butler, spent a lot of time around William and Harry. He saw their rivalry start when they were kids and carry on as they grew up.
“I met both William and Harry in their early 20s, at a polo match, and chatted to them, and you could see that Harry always felt he was in second place.”
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