Article: Taming of the screw; He was the ultimate Hollywood lothario, but then Warren Beatty met Annette Bening. And his life changed.

Byline: CHRISTOPHER GOODWIN

WOULD somebody please give Warren Beatty's phone number to Russell Crowe.

The stark contrast at the recent Bafta awards between the vile bullying of Hollywood's reigning bad boy and the sweet, self-deprecating charms of the ageing king of Tinseltown showed just how much the world has coarsened in the past couple of decades.

Warren Beatty may have been a very bad boy himself - even into his fifties - but his worst habits, until tamed by his lovely and clearly remarkable wife Annette Bening, were to be overly smitten with Hollywood's most delightful leading ladies. In fact he seemed hopelessly addicted to the allure of ...

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