{more of what THE NY POST says}
'How many women were there? Easier to count the stars in the sky
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.
{MEANWHILE website NEWSER'S Nathan Heller calculates}
13 Reasons Warren Beatty Didn't Bed 13K Women
Herewith, 13 reasons why Warren Beatty probably seduced less of America than his biographer believes:
1 - Biskind assumes either that Beatty bedded each partner only once, in the manner of insects, or that he carried on at least two relationships every day of his life, which challenges everything we know about the possibilities for getting from here to there in L.A. traffic.
2 - Today, good noninvasive birth-control measures have a failure rate of about 1 percent. If Beatty's encounters had followed these odds, he might have conceived more than 100 children. For the intractable complications thereof, see (1).
3 - If Beatty failed to make a conquest in the course of a day, he would have needed to redouble his efforts to maintain Biskind's average. For example, he might have had to seduce four separate women one day to catch up after inclement weather or a rigorous filming schedule. An observation from personal experience: I met two friends on opposite ends of town for coffee on Saturday. It took the whole day. Good luck fitting sex in there.
4 - Another observation from personal experience: Seducing four women a day is not possible.
5 - Biskind's proposed seduction rate also does not allow for the possibility of intermittent trips to the grocery store.
6 - Or squash.
7 - Why was Beatty, a movie star, coming into contact with so many strangers, anyway? Was he a) going door-to-door? b) hanging out in malls?
8 - If he was hanging out in malls, should we feel sorry for him? Note that Beatty had no iPhone.
9 - In order to meet Biskind's estimate, Beatty would have had to seduce more women per week than James Bond, which is impossible to fathom.
10 - Bedsores.
11 - Herpes.
12 - Biskind's model doesn't account for the fact that Beatty came increasingly to resemble Rick Moranis.
13 - Was Warren Beatty ever really that irresistible to begin with? François Truffaut famously said of the actor, on turning down Bonnie and Clyde, a script he admired, "Better not to make a film at all than to make it with men like this." Surely Truffaut was not an isolated case.
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