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One of Hollywood\u2019s biggest stars has stopped being the outgoing, culturally ubiquitous figure he was for so many decades, choosing instead to hole up in his Los Angeles home, where the Oscar winner rarely entertains visitors and instead spends his time in his garden or watching movies, a new report says.<\/p>\n

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This report comes from the Daily Mail and concerns 89-year-old Warren Beatty. It said that the one-time powerhouse actor and director has not been seen in public for four years \u2014 last making an appearance at a special, 2022 Turner Classic Movies screening of a 1933 John Barrymore film. Notably, the \u201cBonnie and Clyde\u201d and \u201cShampoo\u201d star did not accompany his wife, Annette Bening, to the 2024 Academy Awards, when she was nominated for a best actress Oscar.<\/p>\n

The Daily Mail also said that Beatty and Bening have stopped hosting their \u201cfamous dinner parties,\u201d where they would gather together glamorous A-listers and others in the best-and-the-brightest category.<\/p>\n

\u201cWarren is a total recluse these days at his Los Angeles home, he does not really go out anywhere at all,\u201d a source told the Daily Mail. \u201cHe has gotten tired and is not in the mood for socializing, he is over it.\u201d<\/p>\n

It\u2019s not clear from this report whether Beatty has any health issues that would keep him at home. But the report said that one reason he has turned his back on the Hollywood scene is \u201cthe humiliation\u201d he faced at the Academy Awards in 2017. That\u2019s when he and his \u201cBonnie and Clyde\u201d co-star Faye Dunaway were tasked with announcing the winner of best picture.<\/p>\n

In one of the most awkward, embarrassing moments in Oscars history, Beatty and Dunaway announced the wrong name \u2014 \u201cLa La Land\u201d instead of \u201cMoonlight.\u201d<\/p>\n

In the immediate aftermath, the error was blamed on the two stars and their ages, according to the Daily Mail.\u00a0 Beatty was then 79, and Dunaway was 76. But it was soon revealed that the actors were given the wrong envelope by accountants from Pricewaterhouse Coopers, the firm charged with counting Oscar votes, keeping the results secret and organizing and handing out envelopes to presenters.<\/p>\n

Beatty and Dunaway were asked to return to the Academy Awards in 2018 to again present best picture, which they correctly announced that year as \u201cThe Shape of Water,\u201d as E! News recounted. They also received a standing ovation when they walked on stage, with Beatty telling the crowd, \u201cThank you, it\u2019s so nice seeing you again.\u201d<\/p>\n

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But according to the Daily Mail, the overall situation left him disenchanted.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat\u00a0made him want to stay away from Hollywood because it was so unfair and rude, he was like, \u2018I\u2019m out folks,’\u201d the source told the Daily Mail. \u201cYou have to remember he came from a classy era where people were nicer. So he felt like he did not want to be involved in such a mean-spirited era.\u201d<\/p>\n

Beatty\u2019s feelings about Hollywood also could have soured after his final film as a director \u2014 \u201cRules Don\u2019t Apply\u201d in 2016 \u2014 bombed at the box office and received mixed reviews.<\/p>\n

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Moreover, Beatty was more in the news that year for giving a rare, in-depth interview to AARP The Magazine, opening up about his legendary bachelor past. From the early 1960s through to his 1991 marriage to Bening, the heartthrob was linked to more than 100 female celebrities, including Leslie Caron, Joan Collins, Natalie Wood, Julie Christie, Barbra Streisand, Diane Keaton and Madonna.<\/p>\n

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Cher once said, \u201cWarren has probably been with everybody I know.\u201d Beatty\u2019s biographer, Peter Biskind, also famously estimated that the number of women Beatty had slept with could be as high as 12,275. But the actor laughed off that number in his AARP interview, though \u201cnot without a certain amount of glee.\u201d He said sleeping with that many women would have been mathematically and physically impossible.<\/p>\n

Beatty began acting in the late 1950s in TV, with his breakout role coming in the 1961 film, \u201cSplendor in the Grass,\u201d opposite Wood. He turned himself into a film industry power player when he both produced and starred in \u201cBonnie and Clyde,\u201d the groundbreaking 1967 film that helped usher in the \u201cNew Hollywood\u201d era.<\/p>\n

Beatty\u2019s heyday continued through the 1990s when he starred in other classics, including \u201cMcCabe and Mrs. Miller,\u201d \u201cThe Parallax View\u201d and \u201cShampoo.\u201d\u00a0 He then turned to directing, along with acting, winning multiple Oscar nominations and a best director Academy Award for his Russian Revolution epic, \u201cReds,\u201d in 1981.<\/p>\n

Beatty also had a cameo role, as himself, in Madonna\u2019s 1991 documentary, \u201cTruth or Dare.\u201d At the time, he was dating the pop star, who had cemented herself as a global cultural icon.<\/p>\n

After Madonna, he met and married Bening when they co-starred in the film \u201cBugsy.\u201d They have four children together, Stephen, 34, Benjamin, 31, Isabel, 29, and Ella, 26. The Daily Mail said his children are among the only visitors he sees.<\/p>\n

Speaking of AARP, a source told the Daily Mail that the last time they saw Beatty was at the magazine\u2019s 19th annual Movies For Grownups Awards in early 2020, where Bening received a Career Achievement Award.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe was a bit spaced out and it did not seem like he wanted to be there at all, he was just sort of enduring the night,\u201d the source said. \u201cHe clung to Annette and they barely worked the room.\u201d<\/p>\n

These days, Bening continues to be \u201cin demand,\u201d while Beatty is apparently content to stay at home, according to the Daily Mail. The source said: \u201cHe is like, \u2018Go do your thing, chase your passion, just don\u2019t drag me along!\u2019 He just wants to be home.\u201d<\/p>\n

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