Best Selling Books by Diane Keaton

NAMED ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY Janet Maslin, The New York Times • People • Vogue ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR Financial Times • Chicago Sun-Times •The Independent • Bookreporter •The Sunday Business Post Mom loved adages, quotes, slogans. There were always little reminders pasted on the kitchen wall. For example, the word THINK. I found THINK thumbtacked on a bulletin board in her darkroom. I saw it Scotch-taped on a pencil box she’d collaged. I even found a pamphlet titled THINK on her bedside table. Mom liked to THINK. So begins Diane Keaton’s unforgettable memoir about her mother and herself. In it you will meet the woman known to tens of millions as Annie Hall, but you will also meet, and fall in love with, her mother, the loving, complicated, always-thinking Dorothy Hall. To write about herself, Diane realized she had to write about her mother, too, and how their bond came to define both their lives. In a remarkable act of creation, Diane not only reveals herself to us, she also lets us meet in intimate detail her mother. Over the course of her life, Dorothy kept eighty-five journals—literally thousands of pages—in which she wrote about her marriage, her children, and, most probingly, herself. Dorothy also recorded memorable stories about Diane’s grandparents. Diane has sorted through these pages to paint an unflinching portrait of her mother—a woman restless with intellectual and creative energy, struggling to find an outlet for her talents—as well as her entire family, recounting a story that spans four generations and nearly a hundred years. More than the autobiography of a legendary actress, Then Again is a book about a very American family with very American dreams. Diane will remind you of yourself, and her bonds with her family will remind you of your own relationships with those you love the most. Look for special features inside. Join the Circle for author chats and more.

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER From Academy Award winner and bestselling author Diane Keaton comes a candid, hilarious, and deeply affecting look at beauty, aging, and the importance of staying true to yourself—no matter what anyone else thinks. Diane Keaton has spent a lifetime coloring outside the lines of the conventional notion of beauty. In Let’s Just Say It Wasn’t Pretty, she shares the wisdom she’s accumulated through the years as a mother, daughter, actress, artist, and international style icon. This is a book only Diane Keaton could write—a smart and funny chronicle of the ups and downs of living and working in a world obsessed with beauty. In her one-of-a-kind voice, Keaton offers up a message of empowerment for anyone who’s ever dreamed of kicking back against the “should”s and “supposed to”s that undermine our pursuit of beauty in all its forms. From a mortifying encounter with a makeup artist who tells her she needs to get her eyes fixed to an awkward excursion to Victoria’s Secret with her teenage daughter, Keaton shares funny and not-so-funny moments from her life in and out of the public eye. For Diane Keaton, being beautiful starts with being true to who you are, and in this book she also offers self-knowing commentary on the bold personal choices she’s made through the years: the wide-brimmed hats, outrageous shoes, and all-weather turtlenecks that have made her an inspiration to anyone who cherishes truly individual style—and catnip to paparazzi worldwide. She recounts her experiences with the many men in her life—including Warren Beatty, Jack Nicholson, Al Pacino, and Sam Shepard—shows how our ideals of beauty change as we age, and explains why a life well lived may be the most beautiful thing of all. Wryly observant and as fiercely original as Diane Keaton herself, Let’s Just Say It Wasn’t Pretty is a head-turner of a book that holds up a mirror to our beauty obsessions—and encourages us to like what we see. Praise for Let''s Just Say It Wasn''t Pretty “Behind the sterling movie credits and tomboyish wardrobe, we see a soulful and deep woman contemplating the narrative arc of her own life.”—Newsweek “Delicious writing . . . This book is like a dishy lunch with the movie star you thought you’d never be lucky enough to meet. . . . Diane Keaton is in a class by herself and this book is good for the soul.”—Liz Smith, Chicago Tribune “She’s talented, iconic, quirky . . . and wonderfully blunt. This is just a small sampling of the reasons we love Diane Keaton, and they all permeate the pages of her new memoir.”—Elle “As disarming and personable as the actress herself.”—The Huffington Post “Wise, witty, thoughtful, uplifting, the truth, unvarnished—and very funny.”—Toronto Star

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER When they were kids in the suburbs of Los Angeles in the 1950s, Diane Keaton and her younger brother, Randy, were best friends and companions. But as they grew up, Randy became troubled, then reclusive. Before he was thirty, he was divorced, an alcoholic, a man who couldn’t hold on to full-time work—his life a world away from his sister’s, and from the rest of their family. Now Diane delves into the nuances of their shared, and separate, pasts to confront the difficult question of why and how Randy ended up living his life on “the other side of normal.” In beautiful and fearless prose intertwined with journal entries, letters, and poetry—much of it Randy’s own—and supplemented by personal photographs and artwork, this insightful, heartfelt memoir contemplates the inner workings of a family, the ties of love and responsibility that hold it together, and the special bond between siblings—even those who are pulled far apart.

Diane Keaton’s cabinet of saved and found photographic curiosities is a visual autobiography of sorts and scrapbook of her fascinations and reflections. A visual autobiography of a kind as only Diane Keaton could tell it, via the celebrated star’s idiosyncratic and personal collections and ruminative texts, Savedoffers an unprecedented glimpse into the mind of the legendary film star. The book begins with an homage to movies—curiously, to old “b” grade horror flicks, such as Attack of the Puppet People—a passion that manifests in a collection of rare film stills showing large-brain aliens with crablike hands and terrified men with eyes growing from their shoulders. In a second chapter or collection, the reader encoun-ters “Cracked,” a startling selection of crinkled and neglected negatives: found portraits that speak of the past through the broken lens of time. Even more intimately revealing are photographs taken by the star herself, be they of pigeons while on downtime from the set of Reds in London or of the “greeters” of Hollywood Boulevard, caught at the other end of her Rolleiflex camera lens, now revealed as the seen, the experienced, the remembered, the cherished. But this is only the beginning, the surface of a very deep dive into the wellsprings of one of the great creative talents at work today. The book is an invitation to dive in.

A fashion icon in her own right, Keaton amusingly revisits and reflects on some of her favorite and not-so-favorite fashion moments over the decades, from childhood homemade outfits to red carpet ensembles and street style experiments she tried from the 1960s until today. Since she could remember, Keaton has been fascinated by clothing and style. As a little girl, she would pick out patterns and request that her mother make her custom outfits. This was the beginning of a love affair with clothes and looks, and sometimes, fashion. From the outset of her acting career in the 1970s, the legendary star has experimented and thought outside the lines of what a Hollywood icon should wear and still became lauded as a style icon by Vogue, W, The Hollywood Reporter, and countless fashion websites. Keaton’s style is at once timeless, experimental, bold, effortless, androgynous, quirky, and utterly and distinctly her own. This is the celebrated film star’s ode to her unforgettable fashion moments examined through Keaton’s self-deprecating, charming voice, as she comments on her favorite looks and her biggest fashion faux pas. Images includes photos of a young Keaton sporting her mother’s homemade ensembles, stylish snapshots from the 1960s and iconic 1970s looks highlighting her signature Annie Hall style, red carpet moments, magazine editorials, street-style shots, and selfies from the 1980s until present day. Striking fashion photographs by renowned photographers such as Annie Leibovitz, Ruven Afanador, and Ron Gallela are accompanied by anecdotes about Keaton’s inspiring style from her longtime friends, collaborators, and fashion designers, including Giorgio Armani, Ralph Lauren, Sarah Jessica Parker, Kris Jenner, Nancy Myers, Blake Lively, and Thom Browne. Truly entertaining and stylish, this is the book fashion lovers and fans of the inimitable actor have been waiting for.

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Bill Wood''s business was photography - and he produced tens of thousands of images over the course of his career. This title features around 300 of Wood''s photographs, and essays by Diane Keaton and Marvin Heiferman that pay respect to the skills Wood brought to the business of photography.

A luxurious, graphically compelling vision for contemporary domestic living, as observed and artfully presented by the Oscar-winning film star. House is Diane Keaton’s stunning portrayal of the way we may and do live now, in rusticated, reimagined, or repurposed spaces across the country. Inventive designers, including Annabelle Selldorf, Roy McMakin, Rick Joy, and Tom Kundig, have brought their talents to bear upon the structurally old, the disused, and the antiquated, finding in these buildings the hidden beauty that lies beneath the surface of neglect and decay, and through their work revealing to us the many possibilities we might bring to our own domestic spaces. Through innovative design and repurposing, industrial structures and farm buildings, crumbling commercial lofts and rusting hangars are transformed and vividly revealed as thoroughly engaging spaces for living. House presents a graphically striking vision, frequently marked by strong geometries and primal coloration, that ignites the imagination of those intent upon redefining the possible as it pertains to one’s space—work that is joyous and rooted in our most basic understandings of home.

At once a style guide, an inspirational tome, and a how-to volume on creating one’s home, this book will serve as a go-to reference for all those seeking to spur their own creativity as they embark on the creation of home. When Diane Keaton decided that she wanted to build her own home from the ground up, she took the advice of her dear friend, film director Nancy Meyers, and took to the boards of Pinterest to find inspiration. There she discovered the practical and the fantastical, elements and styles long adored and ones that she never knew she was drawn to. Keaton’s dream house was officially under way and this book that resulted is a compelling account of her that house, from idea to realization in brick, stone, and wood. The House that Pinterest Built defines what home and house mean to the celebrated movie star, who is known for her love affair with houses and design. Filled with ideas that reveal a personal yet engaging aesthetic, this volume includes compelling photos from Keaton’s past homes and those she admires, as well as a multitude of details from every corner of those spaces and objects that excite and inspire the house designer and dreamer—dramatic staircases and magical light fixtures, film stills and book covers, pottery and art—drawn from the visual treasure trove known as Pinterest and Keaton’s private collection, as she creates and designs her newest house. Rich imagery is accompanied by Keaton’s ideas for selecting furniture, kitchen layout, and bedroom design; she talks about the importance of lighting in the bathroom and why the living room needs to be reimagined. Beyond the interior, she explores curb appeal and environmental sensitivity, always with an eye to making home the way it should be—a place of tranquility, a place where one is restored and where one returns to dream again and again. The book culminates in the dream realized, the house she has imagined, designed, and made, now shared with the world for the first time in all-new photography. “If you want to explore. If you love to see. If you’re looking to look; this book is an example of a home made from the gifts of other people’s addictive yearnings for the perfect home, with the perfect landscape and the perfect interior. It illustrates my choices of your choices. Who knows, you might find one of your pins here. You might smile. You might shake your head and say, ‘This isn’t what I had in mind.’ You might think: ‘Hey that’s my kitchen. She copied my kitchen.’ But the truth is, as much as I tried, I could never entirely recreate the light filled photograph of a kitchen that led the way to the journey that brought me here. No one can.” – Diane Keaton

California Romantica features the most important, yet rarely seen, residential exemplars of the California Mission and Spanish Colonial styles, by such noted architects as George Washington Smith, Wallace Neff, Richard Requa, Lilian Rice, and Paul R. Williams, among others. From whitewashed stucco walls and cloistered patios to tile roofs and sumptuous gardens, each house shown is a rare masterpiece, splendidly appointed with authentic Monterey furniture, California tile, and Navajo rugs. Among the magnificent seaside estates, canyon villas, and courtyard bungalows shown is Diane Keaton''s former home in Beverly Hills, which she thoughtfully restored with noted designer Stephen Shadley, and for which she has been recognized as a committed preservationist. She brings her cinematic eye, a keen sense of natural drama, and a profound appreciation for the nuances of shadow and light to the elucidation of these buildings, through the selection of specially commissioned photography. Authoritative text by D. J. Waldie lucidly explicates the architecture and provides an intimate tour of a historic and distinctly Californian lifestyle.

Igen, járt Woody Allennel, Warren Beattyvel és Al Pacinóval, és igen, szerepelt a Keresztapában, az Annie Hallban és a Minden kezdet nehéz című filmekben. Ez a könyv azonban nem csak erről szól, jóval több annál, mint amikor egy híresség „kitálal”. A Játszd újra, Diane elgondolkodtató és néha szívszorító beszámoló családról és barátságokról, és óda Keaton bonyolult lelkű anyjáról, aki maga is a hírnévről álmodott. Ha önök Keaton-rajongók, e visszaemlékezés elolvasása után még inkább fogják őt imádni. De azok számára is izgalmas ez a mélyen átérzett, szellemes és emlékezetes írás, akik nem hallottak a neves színésznőről. Neal Thompson Ez a könyv ugyanolyan szerény és mulatságos, mint Diane Keaton a szerepeiben. Egyszersmind mély drámai íve is van: egy fiatal magára talál, majd egy anyját imádó lányból anya lesz. Vogue Olyasvalaki memoárja ez, aki egyik napról a másikra vált filmcsillaggá. El se igen hitte, pedig így történt. Los Angeles Times

Ungewöhnliche Erinnerungen einer ungewöhnlichen Frau GANZ PERSÖNLICHE ERINNERUNGEN VON DIANE KEATON. Ein Buch, so berührend, witzig und ungewöhnlich wie seine Autorin. Diane Keatons Erinnerungen erzählen die Geschichte eines gewöhnlichen Mädchens, das sich zu einer außergewöhnlichen Frau entwickelt – nicht zuletzt dank der prägenden Beziehung zur Mutter Dorothy Hall, die in ihren späten Jahren an Alzheimer erkrankt und ihr Leben in 85 Tagebüchern festhielt. Die Autobiographie der Oscar-prämierten Schauspielerin Keaton ist deshalb sowohl zutiefst persönlich als auch universell: Sie gibt Einblick in die einzigartigen Träume und Sehnsüchte von einer Mutter und ihrer Tochter, die sich manchmal decken und manchmal nicht. Ungewöhnliche Erinnerungen einer ungewöhnlichen Frau: unaufgeregt, offen, selbstkritisch.

La comédienne qui incarna à l''écran les héroïnes de Woody Allen, Francis Ford Coppola ou Warren Beatty raconte sa vie et celle des siens. Diane Keaton intime... Tous ceux qui ont vu Annie Hall ont vécu une histoire avec elle. On a aimé sa fraîcheur, on a copié son style, on se souvient de son humour, de ses coups de gueule ou de ses coups de blues. Devenu culte, ce film apparaît comme la déclaration d''amour de Woody Allen à son actrice et ancienne compagne, Diane Keaton, qu''il révéla au public en même temps qu''à elle-même. Contrairement à une idée fausse mais communément admise, Diane n''est pas la nièce de Buster Keaton – en dépit de son indéniable don pour la chose comique – mais l''aînée des quatre enfants de Dorothy Keaton et Jack Hall. Très vite, entre la mère et la fille, se noue une relation très forte, faite d''admiration, de projection et d''attente : la très belle Dorothy, ancienne Miss Highland Park des femmes au foyer, voit en Diane une personne exceptionnelle, capable de réaliser tous ses rêves. C''est cette conviction profonde qui poussera la jeune fille à venir faire ses études de théâtre à New York puis devenir une actrice de renom international, côtoyant les plus grands et récompensée des plus prestigieuses distinctions... À la mort de Dorothy, atteinte depuis des années de la maladie d''Alzheimer, Diane Keaton a retrouvé son journal, composé de quatre-vingt cinq carnets. Ces milliers de pages la révèlent comme une femme en butte au modèle d''épouse et de mère, cherchant comment exprimer sa créativité et son originalité. Plutôt que de composer ses Mémoires de manière conventionnelle, Diane Keaton a alors décidé d''écrire un récit qui les raconte toutes les deux, Dorothy et elle, mais aussi tous les membres de sa famille, ses frères et sœurs, son père, sa " grammy Hall ", ses enfants. Cette histoire, qui s''étend sur quatre générations, nous parle d''elle et nous parle de nous, des liens qui nous unissent pour toujours à ceux que nous aimons...

Nella periferia di Los Angeles degli anni Cinquanta, Diane Keaton e il suo fratellino Randy erano migliori amici e compagni inseparabili, che di sera condividevano storie nei loro letti a castello, facevano il bagno insieme, ridevano e scherzavano, si travestivano per Halloween. Nei suoi diari, e sulla pellicola della sua macchina fotografica, la madre catturava i loro sogni nel cassetto. Ma con il passare degli anni, Randy diventò sempre più problematico e solitario, fino a ritrovarsi in età adulta un uomo divorziato e schiavo dell’alcol, incapace di mantenersi un lavoro a tempo pieno, e vivendo in un mondo del tutto diverso da quello della sorella e della sua famiglia. In Fratello e sorella – arricchito da pagine di diario, lettere e poesie, molte delle quali opera dello stesso Randy – Diane si immerge nelle sfumature del loro passato, alla ricerca del complicato motivo per cui Randy sia finito a vivere la sua esistenza «dall’altra parte della normalità». Un’emozionante autobiografia che diventa letteratura: la toccante esplorazione dei cammini divergenti che un fratello e una sorella possono intraprendere nel corso delle loro vite.

Faisant pendant à Mil Besos (2009), remarquable ensemble de photographies de femmes de flamenco, Angel Gitano démontre avec exubérance l''imagination opulente de ce photographe de talent. Exploitant un contraste puissant sous le soleil blanc et implacable de l''Espagne andalouse, les images éblouissantes de Ruven Afanador présentent un univers peuplé de gitans plus vrais que nature, de musiciens expressifs et de danseurs de flamenco débordant de beauté et de panache. Immobilisés dans des poses ou au milieu d''une danse, tous incarnent la passion juvénile, sauvage, indissociable du monde du flamenco. Vêtus de superbes costumes ou bien nus, ces hommes diffusent une immense séduction râpeuse, un classicisme inné et un érotisme d''une charge singulière. Les extraordinaires photographies d''Afanador heurtent et provoquent, contestant les définitions conventionnelles de la beauté.

This amazing Coloring Book is the greatest gift for your children in this Christmas and the New Year coming Why You Will Love This Coloring Book: Kids can develop good motor skills by coloring inside this coloring book ✔ Kids can use their imagination to make wonderful images ✔ Extra-large format (8.5"x 11'''', ca. A4 size) - provides plenty of space for playful, artistic creativity ✔ You will be offered a lovely, high-quality illustrations in black and white, printed on a high-quality paper that can be used with pencils, pens, crayons, markers or paints ✔ Grab one and let your children''s creative run wild

Love is wonderful. Until it happens to your only daughter. In this remake of the Spencer Tracy classic, George and Nina Banks are the parents of young soon-to-be-wed Annie. George is a nervous father unready to face the fact that his little girl is now a woman. The preparations for the extravagant wedding provide additional comic moments.