I Love Diane Keaton

All day today I have been wondering where can I get a hat like Diane Keaton’s famous hat that she wore all the time. I keep reading article after article about her obsessions with hats. And I feel the same sentiment that she felt. She had hair envy issues, so she felt as though a hat would hide her hair insecurity.

I loved Diane for so many reasons. But mostly it was her freedom to burst out of the normal way of doing a scene into a hilarious, physical combustion moment when you least expect it. That kind of freedom that you don’t really see in most actors. She would bubble up with excitement, or hilarity, or rage, or sadness, and let it overtake her body in a unique way. I could only wish and dream to be like her as an actress. I want to go back and rewatch all of her films. I did watch Annie Hall this week and giggled and laughed about how expressive and interesting her performance is. It never gets old. She says that she is an oddball and that she is glad she never got married (in the many articles you can read about her celebrating her singleness). I always wondered if that was why she was so free to express herself through fashion. Because she didn’t have another person or husband telling her they didn’t like her style, she was able to fully embrace her own style and individuality.

Diane Keaton as the title character, Annie Hall, in *Annie Hall* (1977)

There’s only one other female celebrity that inspires me in fashion the way Diane did. Her name is Imogen Heap. I got to wait on her in a restaurant in my 30s on the night of the the Grammy Awards in 2007. The night I waited on her she wore a headpiece to the restaurant that was branches coming out of her head with a blue jay perched on it, and I remembered thinking who is this wild woman, not realizing I was waiting on the one and only Imogen Heap— one of my greatest inspirations through her creative style of songwriting. Diane and Imogen both have this unique boldness in their fashion that inspires me, and I only wish to be as bold. I’m a bit of a pansy when it comes to making the bold choices I wish I could achieve. There’s an old funny song that my husband Aaron and I refer to from Flight of the Concords called “Fashion is Danger”. If I had not chosen to be an actress I probably would love to devote my time and energy to being a fashion designer and designing hats and dresses. Maybe it’s not too late. All day today I’ve been googling Diane Keaton’s hat, trying to find one I could wear in my own life. Back when I was in junior high my parents started to recognize I wasn’t a normal child, because all I wanted to do was go to antique stores and thrift stores searching for hats for my hat collection. I had a wall of about fifty hats hanging on nails in my room that was painted fushcia pink. Each hat represented a different era and a different type of woman, and I’d wear them to any type of outing, including the grocery store or a fancy theater outing. It didn’t matter. I was going to wear a hat for all different types of occasions, often embarrassing my parents.

I don’t want to be Diane Keaton, but I want to be her same style of wild, unpredictable, and truthful self. Maybe there’s still time to develop this vulnerable spontaneity in my own acting. I just need practice. I think it’s time for a Diane Keaton-kick. I will set out to watch all of her movies, and I will report back with my favorite moments. It’s funny, she’s quoted as her favorite movies she did are the Father of Bride movies— they’re so heartwarming, and I could watch them over and over. I really think this is why I love film so much. It lasts forever, and you can watch it over and over for forever and you’re never lost. Diane will live on through her hilarious and open moments on screen.

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