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why do stars get plastic surgery and get it bad, buy a new face that sucks .Actor Donald Sutherland has emphatically denied an assertion that he and actress Julie Christie actually had sex during a graphic love scene in the 1973 film Don't Look Now.

In a book called Famous Players: A Tale Of Movies, The Mob, (And Sex), former Variety editor Peter Bart claims he was on the film's set and saw the two stars engaging in real sex.

But 75-year-old Sutherland totally rejects Bart's claim, calling it 'mendacious'.

In an email sent to the New York Daily News, he said the claim was: 'Not true. None of it. Not the sex. Not him witnessing it.e added: 'From beginning to end there were four people in that room. No one else. Wires under the locked door led out side and this was twenty years before video monitors.'

The four people he was referring to were himself and Christie, director Nicolas Roeg and cinematographer Anthony Richmond.

Unsurprisingly, it is one of the most notorious ‘did they or didn’t they?’ moment in movie history.

So passionate was the love scene between Christie and Sutherland that ever since there has been speculation the pair were actually having sex.

The stars have always maintained the steaminess was down to good acting and inspired direction in what was an unscripted improvisation.Bart's graphic account reveals how he visited the Venice set as a young Paramount Pictures executive on what he calls that ‘auspicious day’.

As he arrived, the director Nicolas Roeg reportedly told him: ‘Good day to come by’, Mr Bart says. At first he claims his mind drifted off for a few moments as he sat watching the filming but then he suddenly focused on the actors, who were both completely naked.

‘It was clear to me they were no longer simply acting: they were ****ing on camera,’ writes Mr Bart, according to a report in the Los Angeles-based Hollywood Reporter which obtained an advance copy of his book, called ‘Infamous Players: A Tale of Movies, the Mob, (and Sex)’.

Mr Bart says he then whispered to Roeg: ‘Nic, don’t they expect you to say “cut”?’, to which Roeg replied: ‘I just want to be sure I have the coverage.’This apparently prompted Mr Bart to comment on what he could see going on and to say: ‘That’s beyond coverage.’

It has long been rumoured in the movie world that the love-making was real – and have even claimed that out-takes from the scene were viewed in private Beverly Hills screening rooms.

British actress Miss Christie, 69, won an Oscar in 1965 for the John Schlesinger film Darling, although her most famous performances were in Dr Zhivago, also 1965, and Don’t Look Now.

She and Canadian Mr Sutherland, now 75, were in their 30s and at the height of their careers when the latter, a psychological thriller adapted from a short story by Daphne du Maurier, was released amid considerable controversy over the sex scene, which was unusually graphic for the time.

Miss Christie later said she found the scene difficult to film and once said: ‘People didn’t do scenes like that in those days. I just went blank and Nic [Roeg] shouted instructions. 

‘I hardly knew Donald then. But, apart from being a bloody good actor, he is a responsible one and he took responsibility for the scene, helping me through it.

‘Making love on camera is such hard work that there is no time for the libido to take over.’

In another anecdote from his new book, due out in May, Mr Bart claims Warren Beatty, who had a serious relationship with Miss Christie, demanded that the sex scene be re-edited because it was too graphic.

Miss Christie turned her back on Hollywood in the Seventies when her affair with Beatty ended and has since described being a celebrity as ‘like always having chewing gum stuck in your hair’.

She earned an Oscar nomination in 2008 for her poignant portrayal of an Alzheimer’s sufferer in Away From Her.

Neither she nor Mr Sutherland, whose also had memorable roles in MASH and Ordinary People among many other films, commented on the claims made in Mr Bart’s book.

In a 2005 interview, Donald Sutherland insisted their realistic romp was the result of quality editing.

‘Julie and I lay side by side on the bed, Nic yelled instructions, "Donald kiss Julie’s breast, Julie tilt your head back".

‘What made that scene wonderful to people was the editing. The audience never ended up being a voyeur, they watched a cinematic collage and were reminded of themselves. That’s what it made 

After insisting for decades that she saw “no reason” ever to marry, Julie Christie has finally wed her long-term partner Duncan Campbell.

The Oscar-winning actress, 66, told her brother Clive Christie that she and Mr Campbell had married in a secret ceremony in India two months ago.

Christie, who won the Screen Actors Guild award for best screen actress three days ago and who has spent decades shunning the limelight, has been with Mr Campbell, a journalist, for 28 years.

Although details of the ceremony remain unclear, Mr Christie, a retired university lecturer, confirmed yesterday that the wedding had taken place, but said he had not attended.

But how can you stay with campbell for 28 years?