Though his romantic adventures as the womanizer du-jour for over four decades occasionally overshadowed his creative endeavors, Warren Beatty was an actor and Academy Award-winning director and writer who starred in and made some of the most ambitious and influential films of the 1960s into the 1990s. His c.v. may have been shorter than some of his more celebrated peers, but few could boast such films as “Bonnie and Clyde” (1967), “McCabe and Mrs. Miller” (1971), “Shampoo” (1975), “Reds” (1981) and “Bugsy” (1991) as their own. Beatty was also deeply involved in liberal politics, befriending
