Peter Larsen, The Orange County Register

ANAHEIM, Calif. — As a teen growing up at the end of the ’60s, Nikki Nash had a celebrity crush like young people do, but hers was something different, Nash writes in her new memoir.

Where her girlfriends got dreamy-eyed over Paul McCartney , the cute Beatle, or Davy Jones , the cute Monkee, the 14-year-old Nash fell for film star Warren Beatty one night while watching “Splendor in the Grass” on television at home in Tarzana.

This is the one, Nash decided when the movie ended. When I grow up, I will meet him, and will know him for the rest of my life, she promised herself.

Teenage crushes, how cute, you may be thinking.

But five years later, in 1974, when Nash was 19, Beatty walked into the Old World restaurant in Beverly Hills, where Nas

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