Beatty And Haiti Poem by gershon hepner

AND HAITI

The number of the female conquests made by Warren Beatty
is said to be twelve thousand, seven hundred seventy five,
a number that’s far smaller than the earthquake deaths in Haiti,
and all of Beatty’s victims still probably are alive.

God may be behind the movement of the earth in quakes,
megadeaths to Him a concept that is hardly foreign,
but Beatty’s conquests find that sex with him is all it takes
to make them feel the earth has moved, and cry out loud: “Oh Warren! ”

Many thousand victims does not seem for God to be
a number that’s unreasonable, and everyone’s his fan.
Warren’s number is more reasonable and his esprit
does les harm to the corps for whom he is the triggerman

Stephen M. Silverman reports in People.com, January 3,2010
Warren Beatty's legendary gold crown for womanizing is about to get some added polish, with this week's publication of Star: How Warren Beatty Seduced America – though the 72-year-old star has already issued a statement though his attorney to refute the book's claims. 'Using simple arithmetic, ' author Peter Biskind calculates, according to New York Post, Beatty bedded '12,775 women, give or take, a figure that does not include daytime quickies, drive-bys, casual gropings, stolen kisses and so on.' But in a statement to the Huffington Post, Beatty's attorney, Bertram Fields, denies that the book – which the Post reported was authorized – was, in fact, sanctioned by the actor. 'Mr. Biskind's tedious and boring book on Mr. Beatty was not authorized by Mr. Beatty and should not be published as an authorized biography, ' according to the attorney. 'It contains many false assertions and purportedly quotes Mr. Beatty as saying things he never said. Other media should not repeat things from the book on the assumption that they are true or that the book is an authorized biography.' Among Beatty's conquests, Biskind writes, the Bonnie and Clyde, Heaven Can Wait and Reds star-producer can claim Jane Fonda (who at first thought her costar was gay) , Joan Collins (whom he exhausted) , Leslie Caron, Isabelle Adjani, Julie Christie, Diane Keaton, Madonna and, of course, the actress Beatty married in 1992, Annette Bening.
Patrick Goldstein reports in the LA Times, January 14,2010 (“The story behind the bio”) :

When I pressed him about whether it (12,775) was an invented number, he responded: “Warren did say to someone else that he couldn’t get to sleep at night without having sex with someone, so I just added up the days. It didn’t seem an unreasonable figure.”

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