The actor Warren Beatty, the hapless star of the most spectacular and public fiasco in the history of the Oscars, recalls as “chaos” the night he handed the wrong envelope to Faye Dunaway and she announced the wrong winner of the best film award.
“They were insistent I think about it so I got my assistant to go out and buy me some long underwear.
He is almost as famous for the roles he has rejected as for the films he has made, including Superman.
I put them on, looked at myself in a full-length mirror and picked up the phone to say, ‘Just forget it’.”