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Friday, 15 May 2009
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The “poet of America's emotionally disenfranchised,” Woody Allen wove his movie fables of urban neuroses in a framework of classic slapstick. As a film director, Allen viewed life as a concentration camp from which no one can escape alive.
Woody Allen or Alan Stewart Konigsberg was born on Dec. 1, 1935, in Brooklyn, N.Y. Starting from his early age and till 18, Woody read nothing but comic books, but he frpm his childhood was a natural writer. He began to sell one-liners for ten cents each to gossip columnists. In the early 1960s Allen began performing as a stand-up comic. His humor was based on exaggerations from his own life.
His very fast-changing reputation brought an offer to write and act in a movie, which became the surrealistic farce ‘What's New, Pussycat?' (1965). ‘What's Up, Tiger Lily?' (1966) was a Japanese spy film that he converted into a comedy by dubbing in his own freewheeling dialogue. Meanwhile, he had two Broadway hits—‘Don't Drink the Water' (1966) and ‘Play It Again, Sam' (1969; film 1972), in which he played one film critic who enlists the help of Humphrey Bogart's ghost to get a girl.
To get control over his stuff, Allen became a director with ‘Take the Money and Run' (1969), a mock documentary about a would-be public enemy. ‘Bananas' (1971) depicted life as a television game show. Other films, in which the bizarre sight gags submerge Allen's neuroticism, were ‘Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex' (1972), ‘Sleeper' (1973), and ‘Love and Death' (1975).
By the time he made the introspective ‘Annie Hall' (1977), his definitive chronicle of the flaws and failures of relationships, Allen was willing to delete scattershot gags that would have damaged its credibility. It brought him three Academy awards—for best picture, best direction, and best screenplay.
For ‘Manhattan' (1979), he won another Oscar for direction. ‘A Midsummer Night's Sex Comedy' (1982) was the movie in which Mia Farrow replaced Diane Keaton as the prototypical Allen heroine.
In his acclaimed ‘Zelig' (1983) Allen portrayed a man so eager to conform that he becomes a human chameleon. He developed an informal repertory of performers for films like ‘The Purple Rose of Cairo' (1985), ‘Hannah and Her Sisters' (1986, best screenplay. Among his later films were ‘Crimes and Misdemeanors' (1989), ‘Shadows and Fog' (1992), and ‘Husbands and Wives' (1992).
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Interesting facts on Woody
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Woody began analysis in 1959. He hasn’t stopped it since then.
Diane Keaton and Allen starred together in eight movies. Mia Farrow starred in thirteen Allen movies.
Has got the most Oscar nominees of all, 20 all together. Though he only won three times. In Annie Hall he was nomineed as the Best Actor in a Leading Role.
He prefers to play his clarinet at Cafe Carlyle (before 1997 he played at Michael's Pub), rather than show up at the Oscar ceremony. He thinks it’s ridiculous to compete in arts.
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Stanley Kubric’s widow claims that he wanted to use Allen in the role of Sydney Pollack’s, in the movie Eyes Wide Shut.
One of the most prolific American directors of his generation, he has written, directed, and more often than not starred in a film just about every year since 1969.
Even as a kid I always went for the wrong women, when we went to see Snow White, everyone fell in love with Snow White, I immediately fell for the wicked queen.
Should I marry W.? Not if she won't tell me the other letters in her name. (from Without Feathers)
I'm such a good lover because I practice a lot on my own.
My love life is terrible. The last time I was inside a woman was when I visited the Statue of Liberty.
Bisexuality doubles your chances of a date on a Saturday night.
Death
I don't want to achieve immortality through my work. I want to achieve it through not dying.
It's not that I'm afraid to die, I just don't want to be there when it happens.
On the plus side, death is one of the few things that can be done just as easily as lying down.
There are worse things in life than death. Have you ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman?
I think you should defend to the death their right to march, and then go down and meet them with baseball bats. (Woody Allen, on the KKK)
Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering - and it's all over much too soon.
You can live to be a hundred if you give up all the things that make you want to live to be a hundred.
Death doesn't really worry me that much, I'm not frightened about it... I just don't want to be there when it happens.
God
If only God would give me some clear sign! Like making a large deposit in my name at a Swiss bank. (from Without Feathers)
I asked the girl if she could bring a sister for me. She did. Sister Maria Teresa. It was a very slow evening. We discussed the New Testament. We agreed that He was very well adjusted for an only child.
If you want to make God laugh, tell him your future plans.
If it turns out that there is a God, I don't think that he's evil. But the worst that you can say about him is that basically he's an underachiever.
Miscellaneous
It seemed the world was divided into good and bad people. The good ones slept better ... while the bad ones seemed to enjoy the waking hours much more. (From Side Effects)
This year I'm a star, but what will I be next year? A black hole? (1977)
I took a speed reading course and read War and Peace in twenty minutes. It involves
My one regret in life is that I am not someone else.
Interestingly, according to modern astronomers, space is finite. This is a very comforting thought - particularly for people who can never remember where they have left things.
I will not eat oysters. I want my food dead. Not sick -- not wounded -- dead.
Money is better than poverty, if only for financial reasons.
What if everything is an illusion and nothing exists? In that case, I definitely overpaid for my carpet.
Why are our days numbered and not, say, lettered.
Woody's Quotes
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Some more interesting facts on Woody:
- Woody Allen is not only a good comedian and playwright but also a good musician. When he was young, he was fond of showing magic tricks and playing the clarinet. These two kinds of hobbies he continues to do today.
- Woody Allen has played the clarinet since his childhood and decided to choose his name from the famous clarinetist Woody Herman. He first performed in public in the late 1960s with the Preservation Hall Jazz Band on the soundtrack of his film ‘Sleeper’. His first televised performance was on October 20, 1971.
- In music he prefers jazz that is easily recognized in his movies' soundtracks. He likes to play the clarinet at Cafe Carlyle, rather than appear at the Oscar ceremony. He considers it’s absurd to compete in arts.
- Also, he takes part in different music festivals. Once for all he performed in the Montreal Jazz Festival in June 2008. Apart from it, Woody Allen plays with his jazz band every Monday evening at Manhattan's Carlyle Hotel.
- According to his words, he is still afraid of crowds and open spaces (agoraphobia) and of being in a small enclosed space (claustrophobia). Moreover, he has such phobias as acrophobia (heights), entomophobia (insects), necrophobia (death), heliophobia (sun), cynophobia (dogs), arachnophobia (spiders), and misophobia (germs).
- He has never wanted to watch any of his movies once released, but from all of his works he likes ‘Match point’ with Scarlett Johansson and Jonathan Meyers.
- For 17 years Woody Allen created 36films, among the latest is his famous work ‘Vicky Cristina Barcelona’ with Rebecca Hall and Scarlett Johansson, playing the best friends Vicky and Cristina. They spend their summer holidays in Barcelona and are fascinated not only by this wonderful place but also a young painter Antonio. Vicky is rather old-fashioned and means business. Cristina is uninhibited and very attractive to other people. So, Antonio can’t decide which girl to choose, because he likes them both. But their relationships become more entangled when his ex-wife enters this game. And after some intriguing moments Vicky and Cristina leave Barcelona and return to their common life.
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