‘Shine Your Fairy Mud Up There, Lady’

Goldie Hawn, who starred with Diane Keaton within the 1996 comedy hit “The First Wives Membership,” wrote movingly of her friendship with the late star, who died unexpectedly Saturday at 79.

Hawn, additionally 79, poured her coronary heart out on Fb, writing, “We aren’t able to lose you. You’ve left us with a path of fairy mud, crammed with particles of sunshine and reminiscences past creativeness. How do we are saying goodbye? What phrases can come to thoughts when your coronary heart is damaged? You by no means favored reward, so humble, however now you’ll be able to’t inform me to “shut up” honey. There was, and will probably be, nobody such as you.”

She went on, “You stole the hearts of the world and shared your genius with hundreds of thousands, making movies that made us snicker and cry in methods solely you can. I used to be blessed to make ‘First Wives Membership’ with you, our days beginning with espresso within the make-up trailer, laughing and joking, proper by to the final day of filming. It was a curler coaster of affection.

Hawn additionally revealed, “We agreed to develop previous collectively, and at some point, perhaps reside along with all our girlfriends. Nicely, we by no means bought to reside collectively, however we did get older collectively. Who is aware of… perhaps within the subsequent life. Shine your fairy mud up there, girlfriend. I’m going to overlook the hell out of you.”

Keaton and Hawn’s “First Wives Membership” co-star Bette Midler, 79, wrote, “The good, lovely, extraordinary Diane Keaton has died. I can’t inform you how unbearably unhappy this makes me. She was hilarious, a whole authentic, and fully with out guile, or any of the competitiveness one would have anticipated from such a star. What you noticed was who she was … oh, la, lala!”

Midler’s submit attracted shocked and saddened reactions from Julianne Moore, Eric McCormack (“Gutted”), Melba Moore, Jessica Alba, Katie Couric (“I’m so so so unhappy”), Debi Mazar, Melanie Griffith, Carnie Wilson (“I am unable to management my tears” ), and extra big followers of the inimitable actress.

Woody Allen, Keaton’s 89-year-old good friend and former romantic accomplice, didn’t remark publicly, however is alleged to be “extraordinarily distraught.”

Mia Farrow, 80, even remembered Keaton fondly, regardless of Keaton’s steadfast help when Farrow’s daughter with Allen, Dylan Farrow, accused the living-legend director of sexually molesting her as a baby. Farrow provided, “She was a fully great actress- and a uncommon and engaging individual. Ideas along with her kids and sisters. Relaxation in peace Diane.”

Hollywood legend Jane Fonda, 87, who continues to be reeling from the loss of life of longtime pal Robert Redford, wrote on Instagram, “It’s onerous to consider…or settle for…that Diane has handed. She was all the time a spark of life and lightweight, consistently laughing at her personal foibles, being limitlessly inventive…in her performing, her wardrobe, her books, her pals, her properties, her library, her world view. Distinctive is what she was. And, although she didn’t understand it or wouldn’t admit it, man she was a effective actress!”

Candice Bergen, 79, instructed USA At present, “Diane was a real artist — tremendously gifted and uniquely gifted in so many disciplines but additionally modest and splendidly eccentric.  I’ll miss her terribly.”

Steve Martin, 80, wrote merely, “Liked! La dee da, la dee da,” quoting “Annie Corridor” (1977), the movie for which Keaton received her Oscar.

Eighty-one-year-old Michael Douglas remembered her with, “RIP to my good friend Diane Keaton. A heartbreaking lack of one of many best icons in our trade. I’ve so many fond reminiscences of working with Diane on our movie And So It Goes practically twelve years in the past. Sending my deepest condolences to the Keaton household throughout this troublesome time.”

Douglas’ “Primary Intuition” co-star Sharon Stone replied to his phrases, “And [condolences] to you my good friend and mentor.”

Julia Louis-Dreyfus, 64, wrote, “She was a revolutionary actor-both comedically and dramatically. She was a singular artist. I’m so grateful to her and should she relaxation in peace.”

Reese Witherspoon, 49, took trip from an occasion Saturday to handle Keaton’s loss of life. “I simply needed to speak to you for one second as a result of, and I’m gonna attempt to get by this with out tearing up, however I don’t know in case you guys heard that Diane Keaton handed. And I needed to take a second to only actually give it some thought as a result of once I was 15 years previous — Diane was actually necessary she was one in all my first mentors on this enterprise — I used to be 15 years previous and I used to be from Nashville, Tennessee, and I didn’t know anyone and I got here on, it was my second perhaps my third film audition ever, and I auditioned for her and she or he checked out me after… and she or he goes, who’re you?”

When she stated, “I’m Reese Witherspoon. I’m from Nashville Tennessee,’ she stated Keaton replied, “Are you making that up? That accent that you simply’re doing? Nicely, you’re employed in the present day, tomorrow [and] the subsequent day. I don’t know who you might be, however I’m excited to have you ever.'”

Kimberly Williams-Paisley, 54, who performed Keaton’s daughter within the “Father of the Bride” films, wrote on Instagram, “Diane, working with you’ll all the time be one of many highlights of my life. You might be one in all a form, and it was thrilling to be in your orbit for a time. Thanks on your kindness, your generosity, your expertise, and above all, your laughter. 🙏🏻🕊️💔❤️❤️❤️.”

Her form phrases attracted sympathetic feedback from Olivia Munn, LeAnn Rimes, Jessica Capshaw, and extra.

Composer Marc Shaiman, 65, wrote that Keaton was a “true authentic” and “irreplaceable mild.”

Ben Stiller, 59, wrote on X, “Diane Keaton. One of many best movie actors ever. An icon of favor, humor and comedy. Sensible. What an individual.”