Out & About
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Lady La-de-dah
“Seems like old times, dinner dates and flowers”: Diane Keaton sang these lines — and teared up — in the closing moments of the Film Society of Lincoln Center’s tribute to her Monday. The event, directed and edited by Wendy Keys and underwritten by Bernard and Irene Schwartz, raised more than $1 million.
The audience at Avery Fisher Hall had indeed experienced an evening of old-time moments, stirred by a screening of film clips, including Ms. Keaton’s first meeting with Woody Allen in “Annie Hall,” a fight with Warren Beatty in “Reds,” another fight with Al Pacino in “Godfather II”, and the “First Wives Club” scene in which she, Bette Midler, and Goldie Hawn sing “You Don’t Own Me.”
Colleagues described Ms. Keaton as an actress who does it all — drama, slapstick, singing — as well as a cultural and fashion icon who showed women they could be vulnerable and smart at the same time.
Meryl Streep talked about her “wacky grace and compassion.” Steve Martin plucked a tune on the banjo in her honor and showed off the program for a high school production of “Carousel” in which she had the lead and he was a stagehand.
“What I did with Keaton, I always wrote all the good stuff for me, and when the picture came out, she’d get the laughs and all the reviews. You know, it’s infuriating,” Mr. Allen said.
