Diane Keaton has died

Summary

“The First Wives Club” (1996), in which she starred with Goldie Hawn and Bette Midler, was a major box-office hit, a comedy of revenge — or justice, depending on your point of view. Ms. Keaton’s character, for instance, learns that the therapist she has come to trust is actually having an affair with her estranged husband.Her final film was “Summer Camp” (2024), a comedy about three old friends at an eventful reunion.Ms. Keaton’s personal life could be fodder at times for the gossip pages as they tracked her romantic relationships, including with Mr. Beatty and Mr. Allen in addition to Mr. Pacino. She never married and adopted two children, a son, Duke Keaton, and a daughter, Dexter Keaton. Complete information on her survivors was not immediately available.“Getting older hasn’t made me wiser,” she told People magazine, with a typically self-critical eye, in 2019, insisting cheerfully, “I don’t know anything, and I haven’t learned.”Over the years, though, she wrote a dozen or so books — volumes on fashion, art and architecture as well as memoirs. Writing in The New York Times Book Review in 2014, Sheila Weller called Ms. Keaton’s memoir “Then Again” “provocatively honest” and Ms. Keaton “bitingly wry, ironic and tough about herself.”“Then Again” offered Ms. Keaton an opportunity to observe, “I learned I couldn’t shed light on love other than to feel its comings and goings and be grateful.”It also gave her a chance to challenge an adage or two. “If beauty is in the eye of the beholder,” she wrote, “does that mean mirrors are a waste of time?”Nicole Sperling contributed reporting.