Faye Dunaway and Warren Beatty
His appearance at the Hollywood Academy Awards gala was planned as a tribute to Bonnie and Clyde, the film that immortalized them as the robbery couple in history in 1967.
However, an error by one of the notaries with the winners' envelopes made that moment one of the most embarrassing of the year. Warren Beatty's face made him an unfair meme. It also didn't help that Dunaway fled the scene of the crime. However, with him 80 years old and her 76, there is still time for this to not be the image that several generations keep of those who have been icons of romantic and criminal passion, inspiring the change that took place in Hollywood at the end of the 60s.
Barbra Streissand and Nick Nolte
They broke the doctor/patient pact from the poster, but what was at stake was more important than making the psychotherapeutic community happy. In The Prince of Tides, the relationship between the teacher and coach Nick Nolte (76 years old) and Barbra Streisand (75), a psychologist willing to solve the traumas of the brother of a suicide, was intense, convincing, passionate, complicit on screen. Thanks to the false takes of the shooting, directed by Barbra herself, we know that this was not a mirage. She now prefers the Las Vegas stage and only returns to the movies occasionally to play the mother of Ben Stiller in the Her Parents franchise. For her part, Nolte has not lifted his foot off the accelerator and in October he will premiere the second season of the series he stars in, Graves.
Meryl Streep and Clint Eastwood
He was 65 years old when he played this bridge-collecting photographer. She had just turned 45, exactly like the character in the novel on which the film was based. However, the study only raised issues with Meryl Streep's age. "He's too old for him." Clint Eastwood, who fell in love with the story to the point of wanting to direct a rare romantic drama in her filmography, said that if she wasn't there, he didn't want to do it. "I've never seen a couple love each other so much, they exuded a special energy on the set," said producer Kathleen Kennedy. Submerged in the bathtub or in the middle of the rain, they starred in a romance that left those of Danielle Steele on wet paper. If they do not come up with new stories to repeat this pairing, there is always the possibility of taking the musical adaptation that was made on Broadway of The Bridges of Madison County to the cinema.
Anjelica Huston and Jack Nicholson
For almost two decades, in the 1970s and 1980s, Anjelica Huston and Jack Nicholson were off-screen couples. Without starring in major scandals but with evidence of various episodes of cuckolding, excesses, and fits of anger, they were a civilized and Guadianesque version of Liz Taylor and Richard Burton. It all ended when Nicholson got a model pregnant. For the second time since they were together, although then it was another model, that one from Denmark, this one from Kentucky. In the cinema, they were ex-lovers in Prizzi's Honor (1982) and ex-husband and wife in Crossing the Darkness (1995). Jack clarified in a 2013 interview with Vanity Fair that he is not retired or suffering from memory loss, "I just feel like working less than before." At 80 years old and with nothing on the bill since 2010, perhaps a reunion with John Huston's daughter could be what encourages him to leave home.
Billy Crystal and Meg Ryan
In When Harry Met Sally, pastrami sandwiches became fashionable, they gave visibility to the female orgasm and theirs was the idea of commenting on the phone about what they saw on TV. Also, Meg Ryan and Billy Crystal were adorable as a couple. Today neither of them is going through their best moment. It seems that they also share a plastic surgeon judging by their current faces. Perhaps all they need is to see each other 28 years later – no intentional reference to the infected saga – to recover their smile. Nobody tells Meg that Billy wanted to trade her for Helen Mirren.
