What a year 2025 is turning out to be, with the loss now of another great, in the extraordinary Diane Keaton. It is funny feeling so sad about people you don’t know when they pass. But it is in the nature of their work that they gifted us fun, laughter and thought-provoking acting, that helped us escape our less glamorous lives. So it stands to reason we will miss at least a form of them, the part they so generously shared with us.
The thing about Ms Keaton was the warmth and vulnerability that she couldn’t hold in, which emanated every character she played. And of course the strength, and her characters always prevailed. Which made the truth of this finite life such a nasty contradiction to her immortal life on screen.
Many will write about the big films, Annie Hall, The Godfather, First Wives Club but my favourites are in this order: Something’s Gotta Give, The Family Stone and Morning Glory, the latter two where she was not the lead, but stole the show.
“Colleen Peck” in Morning Glory
Her comedic timing and chemistry with the likes of Jack Nicholson (Somethings Gotta Give), Harrison Ford (Morning Glory) and Richard Gere (Maybe I do) is just something to behold.
Meryl Streep described Robert Redford as a Lion and indeed I think the moniker fits Diane as well, she was the pride’s Lioness, still roaring on screen only last year! Her self-deprecating humour made us love her even more, but she was wrong when she said “I’m hardly Iconic”, her humility made her even more so, if that could have been possible. She was an icon to me and I will that smile and the laughter she invoked enormously
RIP Annie
1947 - 2025
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