Heywood Allen (born Allan Stewart Konigsberg ; December 1, 1935) is an American director, writer, actor, comedian and musician whose career spans more than six decades. He began his career as a comedy writer in the 1950s, writing jokes and scripts for television and publishing short books on short pieces of humor. In the early 1960s, Allen began to appear as a standing comedian, emphasizing monologues rather than traditional jokes. As a comedian, he developed an insecure, intellectual, and restless nebbish personality, which he maintained was very different from the personality of his original life. In 2004, Comedy Central placed Allen 4th on the list of 100 biggest stand-up comedians, while the UK survey rated Allen as the third largest comedian.
In the mid-1960s, Allen wrote and directed the film, first specializing in slapstick comedies before moving on to the dramatic material influenced by European art cinema during the 1970s, and alternating between comedy and drama to date. He is often identified as part of a new wave of Hollywood filmmakers from the mid-1960s to the late 1970s. Allen often starred in his films, usually in the persona he developed as a standup. Some of the most famous of over 50 films are Annie Hall (1977), Manhattan (1979), Hannah and Her Sisters (1986)) , and Crime and Breach (1989). In 2007 he said Stardust Memories (1980), The Purple Rose of Cairo (1985), and Match Point (2005) was his best film.. Critic Roger Ebert described Allen as a "treasure trove of the cinema".
Allen has received many awards and honors throughout his career. She has won four Academy Awards: three for Best Original Screenplay and one for Best Director. He also collected nine British Film Academy Awards. The scenario for Annie Hall is named the funniest scenario by the Writers Guild of America in the "101 Funniest Screenplays" list. In 2011, PBS broadcast a biography film of Woody Allen: A Documentary on the American Masters TV series.
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Allen was born Allan Stewart Konigsberg in the Brooklyn district of New York City, New York. He and his sister, Letty (born 1943), grew up in Midwood, Brooklyn. He was the son of Nettie (nÃÆ' Â © e Cherry, 8 November 1906 - January 27, 2002), a bookkeeper at his family's food store, and Martin Konigsberg (December 25, 1900 - January 8, 2001), a carver and jeweler. His family was Jewish, and his grandparents immigrated to the US from Russia and Austria and spoke Yiddish, Hebrew, and German. Both parents of Allen were born and raised in the Lower East Side of Manhattan.
His childhood was not very pleasant; his parents do not get along, and he has a rocky relationship with his stubborn and temperamental mother. Allen spoke a little German in his early years. He then joked that when he was young he was often sent to inter-faith summer camps. While attending Hebrew school for eight years, he went to 99 (now Ishak Asimov School of Science and Literature) and to Midwood Middle School, where he graduated in 1953. At that time, he lived in an apartment in 968 East to-14. Street. Unlike his comic character, he is more interested in baseball than the school and his strong arms ensure he is first chosen for the team. He impressed the students with his amazing talent on cards and magic tricks.
To pay, he wrote a joke (or "joke") for agent David O. Alber, who sold it to a newspaper columnist. At the age of 17, he officially changed his name to Heywood Allen and then started calling himself Woody Allen. According to Allen, his first published joke reads: "Woody Allen says he eats at a restaurant that's O.P.S.-exceeds people's salary." He then gets more than two combined parents. After high school, he studied at New York University, studying communications and films in 1953, before quitting after failing in the course "Moving Image Production". He then briefly studied film at City College of New York in 1954, but did not complete the semester. Then, he taught himself, rather than in the classroom. He finally taught at The New School. He also studied by writing teacher Lajos Egri. p.74 His status before the Selective Service System was "4-F", a medical suspension, though he later claimed his true status was "4-P, hostage".
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Careers
Comedy writer
Allen started writing short jokes when he was 15 years old, and the following year began sending them to various Broadway writers to see if they were interested in buying. He also started using the name "Woody Allen". One such writer is Abe Burrows, co-author of Guys and Dolls, who writes, "Wow! The stuff is so dazzling." Burrows then wrote Allen's introductory letters to Sid Caesar, Phil Silvers, and Peter Lind Hayes, who immediately sent Allen a check just a joke that Burrows inserted as a sample.
As a result of Allen's jokes sent to various authors, he was invited, then age 19, to join the NBC Writer Development Program in 1955, followed by work at The NBC Comedy Hour in Los Angeles. He was then hired as a full-time writer for Herbis Herb Shriner, originally earning $ 25 a week. He began writing scripts for The Ed Sullivan Show The Tonight Show , special for Sid Caesar post- Caesar's Hour (1954-1957), and other television shows. p.111 By the time he worked for Caesar he earned $ 1,500 a week; along with Caesar, he worked with Danny Simon, whom Allen trusted to help shape his writing style. In 1962 he estimated that he wrote twenty thousand jokes for various comics.
Allen also writes for the Candid Camera television show, and appears in several episodes. Along with the show, he wrote jokes for sitcom Buddy Hackett Stanley and The Pat Boone Chevy Showroom . And in 1958 he composed some specials Sid Caesar with Larry Gelbart. After writing for many of the leading comedians and television comedy shows, Allen earned a reputation as a "genius", says composer Mary Rodgers. When given the task for the show he will go and return the next day with a "ream of paper", according to producer Max Liebman. Similarly, after writing for Bob Hope, Hope calls him "half genius".
The daily writing routine can last for fifteen hours, and he can focus and write wherever it takes. Dick Cavett marveled at Allen's ability to write: "He can go to the typewriter after breakfast and sit there until the sun goes down and his head pounding, interrupting work just for coffee and taking a walk, and then spending the whole night working. "When Allen writes for another comedian, they will use eight of his ten jokes. When he started performing as a stand-up, he was far more selective, usually using only one in ten jokes. He estimated that to prepare for the 30-minute show, he spent six months writing intensively. However, she loves to write, even though there is work: "Nothing makes me happier than ripping piles of paper, and I can not wait to fill it! I love to do it."
Allen started writing short stories and cartoon titles for magazines such as The New Yorker ; he was inspired by the humorous New Yorker tradition of S. J. Perelman, George S. Kaufman, Robert Benchley and Max Shulman, whose material was modernized. Allen has published four collections of short works. These are Getting Even , No Feather , Side Effects , and Mere Anarchy . Comic fiction was initially greatly influenced by the humorous humor of S.J. Perelman. In 2010, Allen released a digital oral word version of his four books, where he read 73 short story choices from his work and for him he was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Spoken Album.
Stand-up comedian
From 1960 to 1969, Allen appeared as a stand-up comedian to complete his comedy writing. His contemporaries during those years included Lenny Bruce, Shelley Berman, Mike Nichols and Elaine May's team, and Mort Sahl, his personal favorites. Comedian historian Gerald Nachman notes that Allen, though not the first to stand-up, will eventually have a greater impact than others in the 1960s, and will redefine the meaning of stand-up comedy: "He helped turn it into a bite , a brutal and honest satire comment about the cultural and psychological tenets of the age. "
After Allen was taken under the wings of his new manager, Jack Rollins, who recently found Nichols and May, Rollins advised him to do his written joke as a stand-up. Allen holds on at first, but after seeing Mort Sahl on stage, he feels safer to try it: "I never had the courage to talk about it before then Mort Sahl came up with a whole new style of humor, opening up the view for people like me. "Allen made his professional stage debut at Blue Angel nightclub in Manhattan in October 1960, in which comedian Shelley Berman introduced him as a young television writer who would do his own material.
Initial performances with different humor styles are not always well received or understood by the audience. Unlike other comedians, Allen speaks to his listeners with gentle style and conversation, often appearing to search for words, even though his style is well trained. He acts "normal", dressed casually, and does not attempt to project the "personality" of the stage. And he did not improvise: "I have very little emphasis on improvisation," he told Studs Terkel. The jokes are created from life experiences, and are usually presented with a serious attitude that makes them more funny: "I do not think my family likes me, they put teddy bears living in my crib."
The subject of the joke is rarely topical, political or socially relevant. Unlike Bruce and Sahl, he does not discuss current events like civil rights, women's rights, the Cold War, or Vietnam. And although he is described as a "classical nebbish", he does not tell Jewish jokes. Larry Gelbart comedy scriptwriter compares Allen's style with Elaine May: "She just arranged herself completely after her," he said. Like Nichols and May, he often makes fun of intellectuals.
TV chat talk show host Dick Cavett, one of the minorities who quickly appreciated Allen's unique style, since the audience at Blue Angel largely ignored Allen's monologue: "I immediately recognized that no young comedienne in this country is in the same class as him because of the brilliance of jokes, and I hate the fact that the audience is too stupid to realize what they get. "It was the presence of a quiet stage, while initially unappreciated, which eventually became one of Allen's strongest attributes, explains Nachman:" The absence of showbiz veneer and shtick is the best shtick ever made by any comedian.This easy onstage artistry becomes a trademark. "When he finally noticed the media, writers like New York Times ' Arthur Gelb will describe the quality of Allen's nebby as "Chaplineque" and "refreshing".
Allen develops an anxious, nervous, and intellectual personality for his actions, a successful move that ensures regular performances for him in nightclubs and on television. Allen brings innovation to the monologue comedy genre and his stand-up comedy will be considered influential. Allen first appeared on the The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson on November 1, 1963 and over nine years of guest appearances including seventeen in the host seat. She later released three LP albums of live nightclub recording: self-titled Woody Allen (1964), Volume 2 (1965), and Third Woody Allen Album
In 1965, Allen had his own special TV in the UK called The Woody Allen Show. In 1967 he hosted an episode of The Kraft Music Hall in which he would jingle his humor by interviewing famous people, including conservative writer William F. Buckley. In 1969 he hosted his first American special for CBS television which included a place of humor with The Rev. Billy Graham. He also performs stand-up comedy in other series including The Andy Williams Show and The Perry Como Show where he will interact with other guests and sometimes sing. In 1971, Allen hosted one of his last Tonight Shows, which included guests Bob Hope and James Coco.
Playwright
In 1966, Allen wrote the drama Do not Drink the Water . The drama stars Lou Jacobi, Kay Medford, Anita Gillette, and Allen's future movie star, Tony Roberts. The film adaptation of the drama, directed by Howard Morris, was released in 1969, starring Jackie Gleason. Because he was not very happy with the 1969 film version of his drama, in 1994, Allen directed and starred in the second version for television, with Michael J. Fox and Mayim Bialik.
The next drama Allen wrote for Broadway was Play It Again, Sam , where he also starred. The drama opened on February 12, 1969, and ran for 453 shows. It featured Diane Keaton and Roberts. The drama is important for Keaton's novice career, and he has stated that he "marveled" at Allen even before auditioning for his role, which was the first time he had met him. During an interview in 2013, Keaton stated that he "immediately fell in love with her," adding, "I want to be his girlfriend so I do something about it." After starring alongside Allen in the next movie version of Play It Again, Sam , he will then become a star on Sleeper, Love and Death , > Interior , Manhattan and Annie Hall . "He showed me the rope and I followed his boss He is the most disciplined person I know He works very hard," Keaton has stated. "I find the same sexy thing in a man now as I always have: humor, I like when they're funny.This is to die for."
For the March 21, 1969 edition, Life featured Allen on the cover. In 1981, his game
On October 20, 2011, the one-act drama of the Allen Honeymoon Motel opened as part of a larger section titled Relative Speaking on Broadway, with two other one-act dramas, one by Ethan Coen and one by Elaine May.
Initial movie
His first film was Charles K. Feldman's production What's New Pussycat? in 1965, where he wrote the scenario. He was disappointed with the final product, which inspired him to direct every movie he would write later. Allen's first director effort is What's Up, Tiger Lily? (1966, co-written with Mickey Rose), where there is a Japanese spy film - Kokusai himitsu keisatsu: Kagi no kagi (1965), "International Secret Police: Key Lock" redubbed in English by Allen and friends with fresh new comic dialogue. In 1967, Allen played Jimmy Bond in 007 spoof Casino Royale .
Allen directed, starred, and co-wrote (with Mickey Rose) Take Money and Run in 1969, which received positive reviews. He then signed an agreement with United Artists to produce several films. The films eventually became Banana (1971, co-written with Rose), Everything You Always Know About Sex * (1972), Sleeper > (1973), and Love and Death (1975). Sleeper is the first of four scenarios co-written by Allen and Marshall Brickman.
In 1972, Allen wrote and starred in the movie version of Play It Again, Sam , directed by Herbert Ross and starring Diane Keaton. In 1976, he starred as Howard Prince's cashier, on The Front, directed by Martin Ritt. Front is a funny and moving account from Hollywood blacklisted during the 1950s; Ritt, screenwriter Walter Bernstein, and three of Allen's colleagues, Samuel "Zero" Mostel, Herschel Bernardi, and Lloyd Gough, have been blacklisted.
Then came the two most popular films from Allen. Annie Hall won four Academy Awards in 1977, including Best Picture, Best Actress in Main Role for Diane Keaton, Best Original Screenplay and Best Director for Woody Allen. Annie Hall sets the standard for modern romantic comedy and sparks fashion trends with clothes worn by Diane Keaton in the film. In an interview with journalist Katie Couric, Keaton did not deny that Allen wrote a section for her and about her. He also explained that Allen wrote a part based on his personality aspect at the time:
Of course I recognize myself in the role [Woody Allen] writes. I mean, in Annie Hall (1977) especially. I am a beginner who has a lot of feelings but does not know how to express herself, and I see her in Annie. I think Woody used some of the important qualities he found in me at the time, and I'm glad he did it because it worked so well in movies.
The film was ranked No. 35 in the American Film Films "100 Best Movies" and no. 4 on the AFI's "100 Best Comedy list."
Manhattan (1979), is a black-and-white film often seen as a tribute to New York City. As in many of Allen's films, the main protagonist is a high-class writer and academic. The love-hate opinion of the cerebral people found in Manhattan is characteristic of many of Allen's films, including Crime and Breaches and Annie Hall. Manhattan focuses on the complicated relationship between Isaac Davis (Allen) middle-aged with 17-year-old Tracy (Mariel Hemingway) and fellow star Diane Keaton.
Keaton, who made eight films with Allen during his career, tried to explain why his movie was unique:
He just had thoughts like everyone else. He's brave. He has a lot of strength, a lot of courage in terms of his work. And that's what it takes to do something truly unique. Along with the imagination of genius.
Between Annie Hall and Manhattan, Allen wrote and directed the dark drama Interiors (1978), in the style of Swedish director Ingmar Bergman, one of the main Influences Allen. Interiors represents the departure from the early, funny comedies of Allen (a line from the 1980s 1980s
Allen's 1980s films, even comedy, have a grim and philosophical tone, with their influence as the work of European directors, especially Ingmar Bergman and Federico Fellini. Stardust Memories is based on 8Ã,½ , which he parodies, and Wild Strawberries . The Summer Sex Comedy is adapted from Smiles of a Summer Night . In Hannah and His Sisters , part of the film's structure and background was borrowed from Fanny and Alexander . Amarcord inspires Radio Days . September resembles Autumn Sonata . Allen uses many elements from Wild Strawberries . In Crime and Harassment , Allen references the scene from Wild Strawberries .
Stardust Memories (1980) featured Sandy Bates, a successful filmmaker played by Allen, who expressed hatred and scorn for his fans. Overcome by the death of a recent friend of the disease, the character states, "I do not want to make a funny movie anymore" and the jokes that flooded had many people (including visiting alien spaceships) who told Bates that they appreciated his films, especially the early and funny ones. "Allen believes this to be one of his best films.
Sex Comedy on Summer Evening (1982) is the first film of 13 films starring Allen Farrow, who goes into the role of Diane Keaton when Keaton shoots Reds . He then produced a very strange tragi-funny parody in a documentary film, Zelig , in which he starred as Leonard Zelig, a man who has the ability to change his appearance to the people who surround him.
Allen has incorporated tragic and comic elements in films such as Hannah and Her Sisters 1986 and Crimes and Misdemeanors (1989), in which he narrates two connected stories end. She also made three films about show business: Broadway Danny Rose , where she plays a New York show business agent, Purple Rose Cairo , a film that shows the importance of cinema during the Depression through the naïve Cecilia character, and Radio Days , a film about her childhood in Brooklyn and the importance of radio. The film starring Farrow in Allen's section writes exclusively for him.
The Purple Rose of Cairo is named by Time as one of the 100 greatest movies of all time and Allen describes it as one of her three best movies, along with Stardust Memories and Match Point (Allen defines them as "best" not in terms of quality but because they come closest to his vision). In 1989, Allen worked with the directors of Francis Ford Coppola and Martin Scorsese to create New York Stories, an anthology film about New York. In short Allen, Oedipus Wrecks , is about a neurotic lawyer and his critical mother. Short critics are happy, but New York Stories bombed at the box office.
1990s
The 1991 film Shadows and Fog was a black-and-white tribute to a German expressionist and featured Kurt Weill's music. Allen later made his critically acclaimed comedies Husbands and Wives (1992), who received two Oscar nominations: Best Supporting Actress for Judy Davis and Best Original Screenplay for Allen. His film Manhattan Murder Mystery (1993) combines tension with dark comedy and marks the return of Diane Keaton, Alan Alda and Anjelica Huston.
He returned to light films such as Bullets over Broadway (1994), who earned an Academy Award nomination for Best Director, followed by musicals, Everyone Say I Love You (1996). The singing and dancing scene in Everyone Saying I Love You is similar to a musical starring Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers. Comedy Mighty Aphrodite (1995), in which the Greek drama played a major role, won an Academy Award for Mira Sorvino. Allen's 1999 jazz-based comedy-drama Sweet and Lowdown was nominated for two Academy Awards for Sean Penn (Best Actor) and Samantha Morton (Best Supporting Actress). In contrast to these light films, Allen deviates into a darker satire towards the end of this decade with Deconstructing Harry (1997) and Celebrity (1998).
During this decade, Allen also starred in the film The Sunshine Boys (1995), based on Neil Simon's game of the same name.
Allen made one sitcom "appearance" over the phone at Just Shoot Me! in the 1997 episode, "My Dinner with Woody", which paid tribute to some of his films. Allen provided the Z sound in DreamWorks' first animated film, Antz (1998), featuring many actors who had worked with him; Allen's character is similar to his previous neurotic role.
2000s
Small Time Crooks (2000) is Allen's first film with DreamWorks studio and represents a change of direction: Allen begins to give more interviews and strives to get back to his slapstick roots. This movie is similar to the 1942 film Larceny, Inc. (from the drama by S.J. Perelman). Allen never commented whether this was intentional or if the movie was inspired by him. Little Time Crime was a relative financial success, grossing over $ 17 million domestically but the next four films from Allen were found at the box office, including the most expensive film from Allen, The Curse of the Jade Scorpion (with a budget of $ 26 million). Hollywood Ending , Anything Else , and Melinda and Melinda were rated "rotten" from the Rotten Tomatoes movie review website and each got less from $ 4 million domestically. Some critics have claimed that Allen's 2000s films were below standard and expressed concern that Allen's best years were behind him. Other less rude; reviewing Melinda and Melinda a bit, Roger Ebert wrote, "I can not escape the suspicion that if Woody had never made a movie before, if every new one was a Sundance Woody debut, it would have been better. The reception is not a dead shark, but albatross, which with Allen's admirable economy has arranged for the critics to carry their own necks. "Woody gave his son Quincy Rose a small section in Melinda and Melinda.
Allen was elected a Fellow at the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2001.
Match Point (2005) was one of Allen's most successful films of the decade, garnering positive reviews. Set in London, it stars Jonathan Rhys Meyers and Scarlett Johansson. It's definitely darker than Allen's first four films with DreamWorks SKG. In Match Point , Allen shifted the focus from upper class New York intellectuals to upper class money from London. The film earned more than $ 23 million domestically (more than his films in nearly 20 years) and more than $ 62 million in international box office sales. Match Point earned Allen her first Academy Award nomination since 1998, for Best Original Writing - Screenplay, directing and writing nominations at the Golden Globes, her first nomination at Globe since 1987. In a 2006 interview with > Premiere Magazine , Allen says this is the best movie ever made.
Allen returned to London to film Scoop, also starring Johansson, Hugh Jackman, Ian McShane, Kevin McNally and Allen himself. The film was released on July 28, 2006, and received mixed reviews. She filmed Cassandra's Dream in London. Cassandra's Dream was released in November 2007, and starring Colin Farrell, Ewan McGregor and Tom Wilkinson.
After finishing his third London film, Allen headed to Spain. He reached an agreement to film Vicky Cristina Barcelona in AvilÃÆ'Â © s, Barcelona and Oviedo, where the filming began on July 9, 2007. Scarlett Johansson, Javier Bardem, Rebecca Hall and PenÃÆ'Â © lope Cruz. Speaking of his experience there, Allen said: "I am delighted to be working with Mediapro and making a movie in Spain, a country that has become so special to me." Vicky Cristina Barcelona is well received, winning Best Motion Picture - Musical or Comedy at the Golden Globe award. PenÃÆ' Â © lope Cruz received an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her role in the film.
Allen said that he "survived" in the European market. Viewers there tend to be more receptive to the film, especially in Spain, France, and Italy - countries where it has a lot of audience (joking about at Hollywood Ending ). "In the United States things have changed, and it's hard to make a good little movie right now," Allen said in a 2004 interview. "Spooky studios do not care about a good movie - if they get a good movie they're twice as happy , but the money-making film is their goal, they just want these $ 100 million photographs to make $ 500 million. "
In April 2008, he began filming Whatever Works , a film focused more on older audiences, starring Larry David, Patricia Clarkson, and Evan Rachel Wood. Released in 2009 and portrayed as a dark comedy, this follows a story of a failed suicide attempt into a messy love triangle. Whatever Works was originally written by Allen in the 1970s, and the character played by David was written for Zero Mostel, who died in Annie Hall out.
2010s
You Will Meet a Stranger Dark , filmed in London, starring Antonio Banderas, Josh Brolin, Anthony Hopkins, Anupam Kher, Freida Pinto, and Naomi Watts. Filming began in July 2009. It was released theatrically in the US on September 23, 2010, following Cannes's debut in May 2010, and a screening of the film at the Toronto International Film Festival on September 12, 2010. Allen announced that the next film will be titled Midnight in Paris, starring Adrien Brody, Owen Wilson, Marion Cotillard, Rachel McAdams, Kathy Bates, Michael Sheen, Gad Elmaleh, and Carla Bruni, the First Lady of France at the time of production. The film follows young couples engaged in Paris who see their lives change. It debuted at the 2011 Cannes Film Festival on May 12, 2011. Allen said he wanted to "show the city emotionally," during a press conference. "I just want it to be the way I see Paris - Paris through my eyes," he added. Accepted critically, the film is considered a sign of returning to its form. Midnight in Paris won an Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay and became his best-selling movie, making $ 151 million worldwide with a $ 17 million budget. The next movie, To Rome with Love , is a Rome-set comedy released in 2012. The film is organized into four sketches featuring dialogues in Italian and English. This marks the return of Allen to act since his last role in Scoop .
Blue Jasmine debuted in July 2013. The film is set in San Francisco and New York, and starred Alec Baldwin, Cate Blanchett, Louis C.K., Andrew Dice Clay, Sally Hawkins, and Peter Sarsgaard. Opening for critical acclaim, the film earned Allen an Academy Award nomination for Best Original Screenplay, and Blanchett went on to receive an Academy Award for Best Actress. Allen starred alongside John Turturro on Fading Gigolo, written and directed by Turturro, which aired in September 2013. In 2013, Allen recorded a romantic comedy Magic in the Moonlight in Nice, France. The film, created in 1920 on the French Riviera, starring Colin Firth and Emma Stone, and released in 2014.
From July to August 2014, Allen filmed the Irrational Man drama in Newport, Rhode Island, with Joaquin Phoenix, Emma Stone, Parker Posey, and Jamie Blackley. Allen said that the film, as well as the three that he planned, has the funding and full support of Sony Pictures Classics. The next Allen film, CafÃÆ'Â © Society , starred in the ensemble cast, including Jesse Eisenberg, Kristen Stewart, and Blake Lively. Bruce Willis is set up for his opponent, but was replaced by Steve Carell during the filming. The film is distributed by Amazon Studios, and opened the Cannes Film Festival 2016 on May 11, 2016, marking the third time Allen has opened the festival.
On January 14, 2015, Allen will be writing and directing the half-hour episode TV series for Amazon Studios, marking the first time he has developed a television show. It will be available exclusively on Amazon Prime Instant Video, and Amazon Studios has booked a full season. Allen said of the series, "I do not know how I can get into this, I have no idea and I'm not sure where to start, my guess is that Roy Price [the head of Amazon Studios] will regret this." At the 2015 Cannes Film Festival, Allen said, referring to the upcoming Amazon show, "It was a big mistake I do not know what I'm doing, I'm floundering, I hope it's a cosmic catastrophe." On September 30, 2016, Amazon Video debuted the production of Allen's first television series, titled Crisis in Six Scenes . The series is a comedy that lasted during the 1960s. It focuses on suburban family life after surprise visitors create chaos between them. It stars Allen with Elaine May and Miley Cyrus. Cyrus plays part of a radical hippie fugitive who sells marijuana.
In September 2016, Allen began filming the Wonder Wheel, made in the 1950s on Coney Island, and starring Kate Winslet and Justin Timberlake. The film became the closing night option at the 55th New York Film Festival on October 15, 2017, and was theatricalally released on December 1, 2017, as the first film to be distributed to theaters by Amazon Studios. The movie A Rainy Day in New York, starring Timothée Chalamet, Selena Gomez, Elle Fanning, Jude Law, Diego Luna and Liev Schreiber started production in New York in September 2017.
Theater
While famous for his films, Allen has enjoyed a successful career in theater, starting since 1960, when he wrote sketches for revue From A to Z. His first success was Do not Drink the Water , which opened in 1968, and ran for 598 performances for almost two years on Broadway. His success continued with Play It Again, Sam , which opened in 1969, starring Allen and Diane Keaton. The show was played for 453 performances and was nominated for three Tony Awards, although there was no nomination for the writing or acting of Allen.
In the 1970s, Allen wrote a number of one-act dramas, the most famous of which was God and Death, published in his 1975 Without Feathers collection.. In 1981, Allen The Floating Light Bulb was opened on Broadway. The drama was a critical success and failed commercially. Despite Tony's two nominations, Tony won over acting Brian Backer (who won the 1981 Theater World Award and Drama Table Award for his work), the show only played for 62 shows. After a long absence from the stage, Allen returned to the theater in 1995, with a one-action Central Park West, a installment on the night of the theater known as Death Defying Acts. a new job by David Mamet and Elaine May.
Over the next few years, Allen had no direct involvement with the stage, but the famous production of his work was staged. Production God was staged at the Bank of Brazil Cultural Center in Rio de Janeiro, and a theater adaptation of Allen Bullets Over Broadway and September movies was produced at Italy and France, without Allen's involvement. In 1997, rumor Allen returned to the theater to write a lead role for his wife Immediately-Yi Previn was wrong. In 2003, Allen finally returned to the stage with Writer's Block , night with two single action - Old Saybrook and Riverside Drive - played out Broadway. Production marked the stage directing debut for Allen. Production sold out the entire run. Also in 2003, Allen's report wrote a book for music based on Broadway Bullet appeared, and opened in New York in 2014. The musical closes on August 24, 2014, after 156 shows and 33 previews. In 2004, Allen's first full-length game since 1981, A Second Hand Memory , was directed by Allen and enjoyed a long-range Off-Broadway run. In June 2007, it was announced that Allen would make two more creative debuts in the theater, directing a work he did not write and directing Puccini's Gianni Schicchi reinterpretations to Los Angeles. Opera - which debuted at Dorothy Chandler Pavilion on September 6, 2008. Commenting on the opera's direction, Allen said, "I do not know what I'm doing." Its operational production opened the World Two Festival in Spoleto, Italy, in June 2009.
In October 2011, Woody Allen's one-act drama called Honeymoon Motel was aired as one of a series of one-of-a-kind Broadway drama Reliable Speaking . Also contributing to the drama are Elaine May and Ethan Coen with John Turturro directing. It was announced in February 2012 that Allen will adapt Bullet over Broadway into Broadway musicals. Opened on April 10, 2014 and closed on August 24, 2014.
Music
Allen is a big fan of jazz, prominent in the soundtrack for his films. She started playing the clarinet as a child and took her stage name from Woody Herman's clarinet. He has appeared in public since at least the late 1960s, especially with Preservation Hall Preservation Band on the soundtrack of Sleeper . One of his earliest televised performances was at The Dick Cavett Show on October 20, 1971.
Woody Allen and his New Orleans Jazz Band have played every Monday night at the Carlyle Manhattan Hotel for years (in 2011, specializing in classic New Orleans jazz from the early 20th century). He played songs by Sidney Bechet, George Lewis, Johnny Dodds, Jimmie Noone and Louis Armstrong. The Wild Man Blues documentary (directed by Barbara Kopple) documented a 1996 European tour by Allen and his band, as well as his relationship with Previn. The band has released two CDs: The Bunk Project (1993) and the soundtrack of Wild Man Blues (1997). In a 2011 review of the concert by jazz band Allen, critic Kirk Silsbee from L.A. The Times suggested that Allen should be regarded as a competent music buff with a sincere appreciation for early jazz: "Allen's clarinet will not make anyone forget Sidney Bechet, Barney Bigard or Evan Christopher.Her pipes and string staccato notes can not predict melodic or lyrical phrases. But his sincerity and the obvious thing he has for traditional jazz means something. "
Allen and his band played the Montreal International Jazz Festival on two consecutive nights in June 2008. For years, Allen wanted to make a movie about the origin of jazz in New Orleans. The film, while titled the American Blues , will follow a very different career from Louis Armstrong and Sidney Bechet. Allen stated that the film would cost between $ 80 and $ 100 million and is therefore not possible.
Personal life
Allen married three times, with Harlene Rosen (1956-1959), Louise Lasser (1966-1970) and Soon-Yi Previn (1997-present). He also has a 12-year relationship with actor Mia Farrow and relationships with Stacey Nelkin and Diane Keaton.
Early marriage and relationships
Allen married 17-year-old Harlene Rosen when she was 20 in 1956; the marriage lasted until 1959. Rosen, called Allen in his act as "the Dread Mrs Allen", sued him for defamation as a result of comments made during television appearances shortly after their divorce. In his stand-up album mid-1960s Standup Comic, Allen said that Rosen had sued him for the joke he made in an interview. Rosen has been sexually assaulted outside her apartment. According to Allen, the newspaper reported that he had been "broken". In the interview, Allen said, "Knowing my ex-wife, it's probably not a moving offense." In an interview on The Dick Cavett Show, Allen repeated his comments and said he had been prosecuted for "$ 1 million."
Allen married Louise Lasser in 1966. They divorced in 1970, after a year apart. Lasser appeared in Allen's three movies just before and after the divorce - Take Money and Run Banana , and Everything You Always Know About Sex * (* But Is Afraid to Ask) - and then briefly appear in Stardust Memories . In 1969 Allen threw Diane Keaton in his Broadway show, Play It Again, Sam. During his run he and Allen become romantically involved. Though they broke up after a year, he continued to star in his movie, including Sleeper as a futuristic poet and Love and Death as a combined character based on Tolstoy and Dostoevsky's novels. Annie Hall is very important in Allen and Keaton's career. It is said that the role was written for him, as Diane Keaton's birth name is Diane Hall. He then starred in Interiors as a poet, followed by Manhattan . In 1987, he had a cameo as a nightclub singer on Radio Days, and he was chosen to replace Mia Farrow in Manhattan Murder Mystery after Allen and Farrow started having problems with them. relationship. In 2004 Keaton and Allen remained close friends.
The movie Manhattan is said by the Los Angeles Times is widely known to have been based on Allen's romantic relationship with actor Stacey Nelkin. The little part of Annie Hall ended up on the cutting room floor, and their relationship, though never publicly acknowledged by Allen, reportedly began when she was 17 years old and a student at New York Stuyvesant High School. Nelkin played Rita's role in the 1994 Woody Allen film, Bullet Aboard Broadway .
Mia Farrow
Allen and Mia Farrow met in 1979 and started a 12-year relationship in 1980; Farrow starred in Allen's 13 films from 1982 to 1992. Throughout their relationship lived in separate apartments on the opposite side of Central Park in Manhattan. Farrow had seven children when they met; there were three biological sons from his marriage to composer AndrÃÆ' © Previn, three adopted daughters (two Vietnamese and one Korean, Soon-Yi Previn), and a adopted son, Moses Farrow.
In 1984 he and Allen tried to have a biological child together; Allen agrees with this on the understanding that she does not need to be involved in childcare. When the attempt to conceive failed, Farrow adopted a baby girl, Dylan Farrow, in July 1985. Allen was not involved in adoption, but when Dylan arrived, he took the parent role against him and started spending more time at Farrow's house. On December 19, 1987, Farrow gave birth to Allen's biological child, Satchel Farrow (later known as Ronan Farrow). In 1991 Farrow wanted to adopt another child. According to the 1993 detention hearings, Allen told him that he would not object to another adoption as long as he would approve the adoption of Dylan and Moses; The adoption was completed in December 1991. Eric Lax, Allen's biographer, wrote in The New York Times in February 1991 that Allen was there before they [the children] got up in the morning, he see them during the day and he helps put them to sleep at night ".
Immediately-Yi Previn
In 1978 Farrow and AndrÃÆ' Â © Previn adopted Soon-Yi Previn, who was left in the slums of Seoul. At the time of adoption, his passport said he was seven years old; Bone scan in the US reportedly determined that he was between five and seven. Living with Farrow, Soon-Yi is said to have had little contact with Allen until 1990, when she requested to accompany her to a basketball game. They attended more matches together and in 1991 became closer. In September 1991, he began his studies at Drew University in New Jersey.
In January 1992, Farrow found 22-year-old nude photos of Soon-Yi at Allen's house. Allen, 57, told Farrow that he had taken them the day before, about two weeks after he first had sex with Soon-Yi. This resulted in the breakup of Farrow and Allen relations; both sides instructed the lawyer not long after the photos were found. That summer, Soon-Yi was asked to leave the summer camp because she spent too much time receiving calls from "Mr. Simon", which turned out to be Allen. Allen issued a statement on August 17, 1992, saying that he fell in love with Soon-Yi. They married in Venice on December 23, 1997, and adopted two children, Bechet and Manzie. They live in the Carnegie Hill section on the Upper East Side of Manhattan.
Assault allegations
According to court testimony, on August 4, 1992, Allen visited the children at Mia Farrow's home in Bridgewater, Connecticut, while she was shopping with a friend. The next day, the friend's babysitter told his employer that he had seen Allen behave inappropriately with Dylan. When Farrow asks Dylan about it, Dylan alleges that Allen has touched Dylan's "private part" when they were alone together in the attic. A woman working to care for Farrow's children said that for about 20 minutes that afternoon she did not know where Dylan was, while the two said that, at one point, Dylan was not wearing underwear under her shirt. Farrow told Dylan's specialist doctor, who told the authorities.
After being informed of the allegations, Allen began acting in New York High Court for the sole custody of Farrow's biological son, Satchel, as well as Dylan and Moses, two adopted adopted children of Farrow as well. He strongly denies the allegation, calling it "the cruel and extremely destructive manipulation of innocent and innocent children for revenge and self-serving motives." A month-long investigation by the Child Child's Abuse Clinic of Yale-New Haven Hospital concluded that Dylan had never been sexually assaulted. In June 1993 the judge rejected Allen's offer for custody. He said that the reluctance of the Yale-New Haven team to testify in court, except through deposition, along with the destruction of his records, has made his report "sanitized and, therefore, less than reliable". In September of that year, the public prosecutor announced that he would not sue. On May 23, 2018, a blog post by Moses Farrow, the son of Woody Allen and Mia Farrow, defended Allen against the allegations addressed to him by Mia and Dylan Farrow.
Work
Theatrical function
In addition to directing, writing and acting in film, Allen has written and performed in a number of Broadway theater productions.
Filmography and awards
Works about Allen
Apart from the Wild Man Blues , directed by Barbara Kopple, there is another documentary featuring Woody Allen, including the cable television documentary 2001 Woody Allen: Live in the Movie , directed by > Time film critic Richard Schickel, who interviewed Allen's interviews with his movie clip, and Meetin 'WA , Allen's short interview by French director Jean-Luc Godard. In 2011, the PBS series American Masters also produced the documentary film Woody Allen: a Documentary, directed by Robert B. Weide.
Eric Lax wrote this book Woody Allen: A Biography . From 1976 to 1984, Stuart Hample wrote and drew Inside Woody Allen, a comic strip based on Allen's film persona.
See also
- Woody Allen's Bibliography
Note
References
External links
- Official website
- Woody Allen on IMDb
- Woody Allen at AllMovie
- Woody Allen in the TCM Film Database
- Woody Allen on Broadway Internet Database
- Woody Allen at National Public Radio June 15, 2009
- Woody Allen on the Internet Off-Broadway Database
- Appearance in C-SPAN
- Works by or about Woody Allen in the library (WorldCat catalog)
- "Woody Allen collects news and comments". The Guardian .
- "Woody Allen collects news and comments". The New York Times .
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