Diane Keaton remains the one who got away for her ex-lovers Woody Allen and Al Pacino

Diane Keaton, the beloved prima of “Annie Hall,” “The Godfather” and “The First Wives Club,” wooed audiences arsenic overmuch arsenic she did her aggregate Hollywood boyfriends. It seems that overmuch remains existent for ex-lovers Woody Allen and Al Pacino, whose high-profile romances with the Los Angeles autochthonal are backmost successful the spotlight successful the aftermath of her decease implicit the weekend.

“Her look and laughter illuminated immoderate abstraction she entered,” Allen, Keaton’s “Annie Hall” manager and co-star, wrote Sunday.

The acclaimed and arguable filmmaker reminisced connected his dating narration with Keaton for the Free Press, recalling however they archetypal met successful Manhattan successful the precocious 1960s for his signifier accumulation of “Play It Again, Sam.” Allen’s archetypal content of the eventual Oscar victor was, helium explained, arsenic “if Huckleberry Finn was a gorgeous young woman.”

“The upshot is that she was truthful charming, truthful beautiful, truthful magical, that I questioned my sanity. I thought: Could I beryllium successful emotion truthful quickly?” helium wrote, aboriginal describing their improvement from collaborators to romanticist partners.

Keaton and Allen collaborated connected 8 movies, besides including “Stardust Memories,” “Sleeper” and “Love and Death.” The 89-year-old manager wrote that helium “made movies for an assemblage of one, Diane Keaton,” and heavy valued her opinions connected his work. As Allen praised Keaton’s radiating property (“She was a cardinal laughs to beryllium around”) helium recalled learning astir her struggles with bulimia and spending Thanksgiving with her household successful Orange County.

“Why we parted lone God and Freud mightiness beryllium capable to fig out,” Allen wrote.

Pacino, who shared the surface with Keaton successful 3 “Godfather” films and dated Keaton passim the ‘70s and ‘80s, is besides reasoning astir what could person been. “Looking back, Al admits the emotion of his beingness was Diane who he’s ever called an ‘amazing woman,’ ” a root adjacent to the 85-year-old histrion told the Daily Mail.

“I cognize helium volition everlastingly regret helium didn’t marque his determination erstwhile helium had the chance,” the root added. “For years aft helium and Diane split, Al utilized to say, ‘If it’s meant to be, it’s ne'er excessively precocious for a do-over. But sadly, present it is.’ ”

After quality of Keaton’s decease dispersed Saturday, stars including Bette Midler, Steve Martin, Viola Davis and Kate Hudson paid tribute connected societal media. “What you saw was who she was,” Midler said of her “First Wives Club” co-star. Keaton ne'er joined and is survived by 2 adopted children, Duke and Dexter Keaton.

Allen closed his effort emphasizing the value of Keaton’s death: “A fewer days agone the satellite was a spot that included Diane Keaton. Now it’s a satellite that does not. Hence it’s a drearier world.”

“Still determination are her movies,” helium wrote. “And her large laughter inactive echoes successful my head.”