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Woody Allen | | Birth Date: |
December 1, 1935 | | Place of Birth: |
Brooklyn, New York, United States | | Nationality: |
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filmmaker, director, actor, author, comedian |
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 Biography of Woody Allen
6,312 words, approx. 21 pages
 Woody Allen falls into one of the most rarified categories of artist: the auteur filmmaker whose vision pervades every aspect of his work. Allen is also one of the most recognized cinematic figures of the twentieth century; indeed, he has more "name... summary from source:
 Biography of Woody Allen
3,731 words, approx. 12 pages
Woody Allen is one of the most prominent and important figures in contemporary film comedy. As his career has progressed, he has evolved from stand-up comic to talented writer and director, to sophisticated filmmaker. Born Allen Stewart Konigsberg, the... summary from source:
 Biography of Woody Allen
2,505 words, approx. 8 pages
Woody Allen (born 1935) has been one of America's most prominent filmmakers, with a series of very personal films about the subjects that have always obsessed him: sex, death, and the meaning of life. "If I sat down to do something popular, I don't... 
Encyclopedia and Summary Information
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 Allen, Woody (1935—) Summary
731 words, approx. 2 pages Woody Allen is as close to an auteur as contemporary popular culture permits. While his style has changed dramatically since the release of Take the Money and Run (1969), his work has always been distinctively his. Over the last thirty years, he has... summary from source:
 Woody Allen Information
6,444 words, approx. 22 pages
Woody Allen (born Allen Stewart Königsberg on December 1, 1935) is a three-time Academy Award-winning American film director, writer, actor, jazz musician, comedian and playwright. His large body of work and cerebral film style, mixing satire, wit and...
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 AP News Burns says wooing Turlington was tricky
9/17/2007: 371 words, approx. 1 pagesEd Burns says it took hard work to woo Christy Turlington. "Friends of ours had tried to fix us up _ we both live in New York, we're both pretty low-key, both heterosexual _ but she was like, 'Uh, not really interested,'" the 39-year-old actor-director... summary from source:
The New York Observer Into the Woody
6/19/2007: 553 words, approx. 2 pagesMERE ANARCHYBy Woody Allen Random House, 160 pages, $21.95 THE INSANITY DEFENSE: THE COMPLETE PROSE By Woody Allen Random House, 342 pages, $15.95 Like every other kind of writer, humorists go in and out of fashion. Nobody seems to read Stephen Leacock anymore,...
Literary Criticism
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 Critical Essay by Joan Didion
1,939 words, approx. 7 pages
Self-absorption is general, as is self-doubt. In the large coastal cities of the United States this summer many people wanted to be dressed in "real linen," cut by Calvin Klein to wrinkle, which implies real money. In the large coastal cities of the United States this summer many people wanted to be served the perfect vegetable terrine. It was a summer in which only have-nots wanted a cigarette or a vodka-and-tonic or a charcoal-broiled steak. It was a summer in which the more hopeful members ... summary from source:
Critical Essay by Vernon Young
695 words, approx. 2 pages
Woody Allen, since 1971, if no farther back, had thirsted to make what he thought of as a "European" film, preferably in the monastic style of Ingmar Bergman. Finally he has made it, and contingently it resembles (at least in outline) the particular Bergman number [Autumn Sonata] which arrived almost at the same hour of release. (p. 60) Impressed by the austerity of Bergman's style and by what he reads as Bergman's tragic view of life, he endangered his project at the outset; he ... summary from source:
Critical Essay by Molly Haskell
634 words, approx. 2 pages
[Woody Allen] has encouraged a "just fun" attitude toward his films while stealthily adding more elaborate sketches to his repertory in order to invite comparison with the great comedians of the past…. But Allen's sense of his own identity is too strong and too obtrusive for him ever to successfully camouflage himself as a mechanical man, the way Chaplin does in The Circus, the way Keaton enters animistically into harmony with other organisms. Nor can he quite envision a world of...
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