Star: How Warren Beatty Seduced America

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Does Warren Beatty deserve a spot in the pantheon of Hollywood greats?

If Hollywood's a gingerbread house, Hansel and Gretel would do well

to watch out for Warren Beatty. As depicted by Peter Biskind in his

new biography Star, the 72-year-old

actor/director/producer/writer/lothario might not devour small

children, but will assuredly hijack directors' chairs, steal

screenwriting credits, bankrupt studios, and canoodle every woman in

sight - Gretel included.

Though its subject is as well known for his prowess with ladies -

Julie Christie, Diane Keaton, Madonna, and, by Biskind's math,

12,772 others (click …