Remembering 2025’s Losses: Diane Keaton

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Along with the people in the world of music we lost, I’m paying tribute to folks from other walks of life that we said goodbye to last year. Today we break the baseball streak (to wild cheers ) and turn to one of the best actors of her generation. Diane Keaton I’d call her one of the best actors of her generation if the only movies she’d ever made were The Godfather and The Godfather Part II. Of course, that’s not all she ever did. I’m not a fan of Woody Allen’s stuff, so I’ve never seen her Oscar-winning performance in Annie Hall. I have read, though, that people consider it one of the greatest performances to ever win an Academy Award. I have seen other things that show her brilliance. I love The Godfather, and I simply cannot imagine ANYONE else playing Kay Corleone. It would be a completely different movie without her. (Yeah, the fact that she was dating Al Pacino, who played Michael, didn’t hurt, but still…) She was the lead in the based-on-a-true-story film Looking For Mr. Goodbar (an interesting fact about that film said that she couldn’t do nude scenes without Bach music playing). The clip below is her, Bette Midler, and Goldie Hawn obviously having the time of their lives in The First Wives Club. Under normal circumstances people might criticize the obvious lip-synching, but this isn’t ordinary, it’s a celebration. And Diane Keaton wasn’t an ordinary actor. Diane Keaton Born Diane Hall, January 5, 1946, Los Angeles, California Died October 11, 2025, Santa Monica, California (bacterial pneumonia) (age 79) Keaton, Bette Midler, and Goldie Hawn doing “You Don’t Own Me” in The First Wives Club: