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But in his rollicking new book “Star: How Warren Beatty Seduced America” (Simon & Schuster), biographer Peter Biskind hazards a guess about the conquests of Hollywood’s most notorious lothario — based, he says, on “simple arithmetic.”
Biskind estimates “12,775 women, give or take, a figure that does not include daytime quickies, drive-bys, casual gropings, stolen kisses and so on.”
Alright, so, assuming, naively, one per day, 365 days/year, that’s roughly 32 straight years. Daily. Now let’s just assume two per day. That’s 16 straight years. We’re talking every…single…day.
Obviously the math is much more complicated than all of that, because you can bank on any given lost weekends of 10-20 different mates or something, but even then — 12,000? REALLY? Stuff like this just…fascinates me. I’m reminded of similar awe when Wilt Chamberlain’s number was thrown around back in the day. What does the math that would yield that number even LOOK like?
(Courtesy: New York Post, via Roger Ebert.)