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    Death Not Sex

    Posted Thursday, February 12, 2009 9:05 AM | By Emily Yoffe
    Diane Keaton has just sold her memoir for a reported $2 million. You'd think getting the dish about her famous affairs with Woody Allen, Al Pacino, etc., would be worth the publishing world's bidding war even in these strapped days. But the subject of her memoir is how she cared for her late mother during her 15 years with Alzheimer's disease. I know these are depressing times and all, and we boomers have become obsessed with the sense that if we're lucky we might make it to the end of the month without going completely gaga. But now it's come to this: What we want from Diane Keaton is the story of how she lovingly attended to her mother's bodily needs, rather than how Warren Beatty lovingly attended to hers.
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