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Woody / David Evanier.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York : St. Martin's Press, 2015Copyright date: ©2015Edition: First editionDescription: 384 pages : illustrations ; 25 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781250047267
  • 1250047269
Subject(s): Genre/Form:
Contents:
Introduction: How I got to Woody -- Enchantment was the reason -- "Writing saved his life" -- The real Broadway Danny Rose -- "Woody, c'est moi" -- Bathing in honey -- "As tough and romantic as the city he loved" -- The woman who saves Leonard Zelig -- Dick and Woody -- "Startling intimations of greatness" -- Sex, lies, and videotapes -- Woody pulls the rabbit out of the hat-again -- Balls of steel -- Epilogue: Touching the entire world.
Summary: "In this first biography of Woody Allen in over a decade, David Evanier discusses key movies, plays and prose as well as Allen's personal life. Evanier tackles the themes that Allen has spent a lifetime sorting through in art: morality, sexuality, Judaism, the eternal struggle of head and heart. Woody will be the definitive word on a major American talent as he begins his ninth decade, and his sixth decade of making movies"-- Provided by publisher.
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Adult Book Adult Book Main Library Biography Allen, W. B552 Available 33111008339042
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

Woody Allen is not only one of the great movie directors but one of the foremost creative artists of our time. In over forty-five movies, from Annie Hall to Midnight in Paris, and through a career that's included stand-up, play-writing, screenwriting, directing, and acting, Woody has evolved more than reinvented himself. In the first biography of Allen in over twenty years, David Evanier writes about Allen's private life as well as his very public career. He untangles fact from rumor about Allen's relationship with Mia Farrow as well as the great scandals that surfaced in the 1990s and recently resurfaced, and makes thoughtful connections between Allen's romantic relationships and the characters in his movies.In fresh interviews with collaborators, boyhood pals, family and friends, Evanier fills in fascinating details about where Woody came from, how he got his start, and how he has been able to be moral in his business dealings and make exactly the movies that interest him most with the people who interest him most, from Diane Keaton to Cate Blanchett to Michael Caine. Even the closest Allen-watcher will be riveted by Evanier's rich portrait: detailed but sweeping, Woody is the biography of an artist who has never lost his passion, talent and capacity to break new artistic ground, who has always been swept up in the creative act of becoming.

"The biography"--Jacket.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 363-366) and index.

"In this first biography of Woody Allen in over a decade, David Evanier discusses key movies, plays and prose as well as Allen's personal life. Evanier tackles the themes that Allen has spent a lifetime sorting through in art: morality, sexuality, Judaism, the eternal struggle of head and heart. Woody will be the definitive word on a major American talent as he begins his ninth decade, and his sixth decade of making movies"-- Provided by publisher.

Introduction: How I got to Woody -- Enchantment was the reason -- "Writing saved his life" -- The real Broadway Danny Rose -- "Woody, c'est moi" -- Bathing in honey -- "As tough and romantic as the city he loved" -- The woman who saves Leonard Zelig -- Dick and Woody -- "Startling intimations of greatness" -- Sex, lies, and videotapes -- Woody pulls the rabbit out of the hat-again -- Balls of steel -- Epilogue: Touching the entire world.

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