Diane Keaton
The first time she entered my consciousness was 1969, in a deodorant ad
She was completely unique, especially by Madison Ave standards.
What to make of her, they must have wondered.
“Ok. Let’s put her hair up and give her some shorts and let her pretend she’s a busy mom.”
Which she wasn’t, in real life, until she was in her 50s. She said she became a mother because she so loved being a daughter, and when she lost her father, she thought it would help her move on. So she adopted her two children, and they became her world.
The TV screen was too small to contain her. She quickly moved from ads to Broadway and on to her storied movie career. Her incandescent aura was lit from within. Her originality never wavered. Even here, in this 1969 ad.
We’ve lost an American treasure. Watch her movies, read her books, seek out the films and TV episodes she directed, read about the LA houses she restored.
She was a tireless champion of human — but make no mistake, female — creativity.
I remember that ad so clearly. "Between housework, kids, and shopping, I must put on five miles a day." She was fresh and guileless. I might have seen in her someone I wanted to be..
Yep! Lost a good one.