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Woody Allen searches for meaning of life in new documentary
STLtoday.com
US Director Woody Allen is seen in central Rome, Thursday, July 14, 2011, during the shooting of his latest movie "The Bop Decameron". Spanish actress Penelope Cruz will act in the comedy that will also feature among others Roberto Benigni, ...
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Diane Keaton's Woody Allen affair was blighted by bulimia: Doomed flings left ...
Daily Mail
Then, at 25, for no apparent reason, she suddenly began eating normally again. It was a new beginning. Publicly, she started making a name for herself in Woody's films — first Play It Again, Sam in 1972, followed by Sleeper and Love And Death. ...
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Daily Mail
Woody Allen's son named Rhodes Scholar
USA Today
By John Bacon, USA TODAY The son of actress and activist Mia Farrow and director Woody Allen has been chosen as a Rhodes Scholar, the Associated Press reports. Ronan Farrow is among 32 American students being awarded scholarships to study at England's ...
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USA Today
Dogs, Christmas and Woody Allen
SouthCoastToday.com
A subject like Woody Allen deserves a discussion on how popular culture has changed, how Allen's beloved New York has been transformed and how movies and the movie- going audience have evolved in the past 40 years. For the record, Allen still writes ...
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Critic's Guide to Weekend TV: Woody Allen on American Masters and More!
TV Guide
"The only thing standing between greatness and me is me," says a wry Woody Allen in one of many self-lacerating moments in the revealing and amusing two-part American Masters profile Woody Allen: A Documentary (PBS, check local schedules; ...
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Viewing reminders: 'Saturday Night Live,' 'The Walking Dead,' 'Woody Allen'
Orlando Sentinel (blog)
Allen didn't like the popular “Manhattan,” but Mariel Hemingway calls it a love letter to New York. Diane Keaton says she was shocked to read “Annie Hall,” because Allen had written a love story. “We were a good team,” Keaton says. ...
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Orlando Sentinel (blog)
Woody Allen versus JM Keynes
National Post
Woody was quoted at Grano by Matt Ridley, the brilliant British author whose latestbook, The Rational Optimist, notes how the astonishing advances in wealth, health and welfare of the past 200 years have been accompanied by a constant drumbeat of doom...
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Arts on TV: Motown; Woody Allen; Herbie Hancock; Sam Gilliam
Los Angeles Times
“Woody Allen: American Masters” 9 pm, Sunday KOCE: Woody Allen'schildhood in Brooklyn, NY, his creative process and his career as director and writer. (Part 1 of 2) “Woody Allen: American Masters” 9 pm, Monday KOCE: Woody Allen's childhood in Brooklyn ...
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Los Angeles Times
Poll: Flimmaker Woody Allen's 8 best comedies ever
NOLA.com
By The Times-Picayune Longtime Woody Allen fans first fell in love with the director/writer/actor's work because he made them laugh. Once known just for silly comedy, Allen ventured into serious films, starting with 1978's "Interiors" and has since ...
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NOLA.com
Alan Alda wears a QR code on his wrist to promote Marie Curie play at Geffen
Los Angeles Daily News
... quite a figure for himself in character roles as part of Woody Allen's ensemble, on "ER" and "The West Wing," and now in "Tower Heist." In the service of promoting hisnew play, Alda wouldn't mind if you looked at the plastic bracelet on his wrist. ...
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Woody Allen: Makes the most of his twilight in 'Paris'
Variety
By John Anderson "When Woody Got His Groove Back" might have been the subtitle of "Midnight in Paris," the wry, time-traveling fantasy that has now become the comedy icon's most financially successful film. Together with "Honeymoon Motel" -- Allen's ...
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Variety
Woody Allen, Lennny Bruce, Mitch Hedberg and Louis CK are among the former ...
The List
I naturally checked out more comedians. The first to blow me away wasWoody Allen. At a time when the majority of comedians were joke-regurgitators, Allen wrote his own material which hung on his neurotic persona. His perfectly formed jokes, delivery, ...
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The List
Traffic to Stymie Even the Batmobile Shows the Two Sides of Movie Production
New York Times
By MATT FLEGENHEIMER The Queensboro Bridge was where Simon and Garfunkel felt groovy, where Woody Allen and Diane Keaton watched dawn break in “Manhattan,” where the city could be seen, as F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote, “in its first wild promise of all ...
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New York Times
TV Talk this week: Holiday chestnuts return to TV -- thank goodness
OregonLive.com
For those wanting to hold off on the holiday sweets, there's also a newshow featuring the acerbic Anthony Bourdain, and a two-part special devoted to Woody Allen, who's not exactly Mr. Sentimentality, either. "America in Primetime": The finale of this ...
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OregonLive.com
AMAs stuffed with stars, music
Lansing State Journal
As a teenager, Allan Konigsberg typed jokes and sent them to New York columnists. He made up the name "Woody Allen," so classmates wouldn't mock him. Then managers convinced this painfully shy guy to do stand-up comedy in clubs and to do anything ...
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Writer/Actor Danny Hoch Talks Broadway, Gentrification, People With TVs In ...
Gothamist
Award-winning playwright, actor and director Danny Hoch is currently on Broadway in Relatively Speaking, a trio of one-act plays by Ethan Coen, Elaine May, and Woody Allen. But Broadway isn't where you usually find Hoch, who's known for rollicking and ...
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Gothamist
This week: 'Dancing With the Stars' names winner; 'X Factor' eliminates two ...
Orlando Sentinel (blog)
4. “Woody Allen: A Documentary” offers its second half at 9 pm Monday on PBS. This portion concentrates on Allen's career since “Stardust Memories” in 1980. Allen says many admiring things about Mia Farrow, but the actress doesn't take part. ...
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Orlando Sentinel (blog)
Sunday TV Picks: 'American Music Awards'
The Seattle Times
"Woody Allen: American Masters," 9 pm (KCTS): Woody Allen's childhood in Brooklyn, NY, his creative process, and his career as director and writer. "The Good Wife," 9 pm (CBS): Tensions run high at the firm when Will and Alicia argue in front of a...
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Marchers protest burned cars in NYC Jewish enclave
The Associated Press
NEW YORK (AP) — Peaceful marchers sent a clear message Sunday to vandals who torched cars and scrawled Nazi swastikas in an Orthodox Jewish neighborhood of Brooklyn where Woody Allen was raised: Don't repeat the kind of attacks that once led to the ...
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'The Conquest': Politics As Romance As Sarkozy Rises
ThinkProgress
By Alyssa Rosenberg on Nov 18, 2011 at 2:52 pm French glamor has, inrecent years, largely been represented by Carla Bruni-Sarkozy: the whirlwind courtship! The record! The Woody Allen movie cameo! The first baby born to a French president while in ...
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ThinkProgress
Review: 'Jupiter' shines in Greenville Symphony Chamber Orchestra's all-Mozart ...
Greenville News
41 is one of the handful of things that make life worth living, mused Woody Allen in his 1979 film “Manhattan.” True enough, but perhaps that accolade should be extended to the entire symphony, subtitled “Jupiter.” We can't shortchange, after all, ...
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Musos connect with politics
Nelson Mail
MIXING MUSIC AND POLITICS: Tiki Taane makes a political statement at the recent New Zealand Music Awards a celebration of a sector in good health. I went to see Woody Allen's movie Midnight in Paris this week. I have always been a fan of Allen's ...
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Nelson Mail
Then Again: A Memoir by Diane Keaton – review
The Guardian
This was followed by Play It Again, Sam, which ran on Broadway for more than a year and began her long association with Woody Allen, one of the three co-stars and lovers she came nearest to marrying, the others being Warren Beatty (her teenage idol) ...
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The Guardian
Watch Corey Stoll and Woody Allen's Sister Talk 'Midnight' at TheWrap ...
TheWrap
By Sharon Waxman Letty Aronson is Woody Allen's sister, a once-upon-a-time schoolteacher, who has been producing her brother's movies for years. "Midnight in Paris" has become the writer-director's biggest hit ever, taking in more than $150 million in ...
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'Hart of Dixie' Recap: Crossbow'd
BuddyTV
Anywho, Zoe travels to go to the Woody Allen festival because she is from NEW YORK. As if that wasn't clear enough, George also ends up at the festival a couple towns over because he lived there for a while too. That was contrived, writers, ...
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BuddyTV
Studios hope early releases have kudos traction
Variety
Among this year's crop of awards movies and perfs looking to buck the seasonal odds are a pair of Fox Searchlight releases -- the March-debuting "Win Win" and May's "The Tree of Life" -- as well as the latest Woody Allen pic, "Midnight in Paris," which ...
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Variety
`The Descendants' review: Clooney's crisis in paradise
The Star-Ledger - NJ.com
Woody Allen has directed 16. Steven Spielberg has made 12. Certainly no one will ever accuse Payne of rushing things. And it's a good thing he doesn't. Because that care and concentration shows in every film he finally makes. “The Descendants” is his ...
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The Star-Ledger - NJ.com
Theater Listings: Nov. 18 — 24
New York Times
5) Before he started rubbing shoulders with Woody Allen and Elaine May with “Relatively Speaking” on Broadway, the filmmaker Ethan Coen was regularly cooking up one-act comedy trilogies for the Atlantic Theater Company. His third set, again directed by ...
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Love, Loss and Who I Married
New York Press
The very topicality of the evening is a slap in the face to Relatively Speaking, which practically chokes its audiences with the mustiness of the jokes contributed by trio of authors Ethan Coen, Elaine May andWoody Allen. Are there any people left ...
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New York Press
Scarlett Johansson Chooses Truman Capote Novel For Her Directorial Debut
Cinema Blend
In all honesty, though, she has worked with extremely talented filmmakers over the years, from Robert Redford and Woody Allen to Brian De Palma and Christopher Nolan. She no doubt absorbed trade secrets on the sets of their films over the years, ...
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Cinema Blend
“Hannah” serves up classic holiday side dish
Truman Index
From lovably neurotic filmmaker Woody Allen, 1986's "Hannah" tells the tale of a family boasting some of the most complicated, and at times awkward, problems in movie history. The well-structured film juxtaposes the uneven nature of the characters' ...
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Click! Chris Messina, a storytelling vessel
Inquirer.net
His recent film credits include roles in Woody Allen's “Vicky Cristina Barcelona” and Nora Ephron's “Julie and Julia.” He recently appeared in nine episodes of the acclaimed legal drama “Damages,” starring Glenn Close and Rose Byrne. ...
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Inquirer.net
Miami Book Fair: Andy Borowitz, the 51st funniest American writer
Sun-Sentinel
Funnier than Woody Allen. Funnier than Lenny Bruce. Funnier than David Sedaris. Funnier than Mark Twain even, and certainly funnier than Dave Barry. At least, the late King of Comedy is this funny if your barometer for absolute humor involves, ...
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Sun-Sentinel
The letters of Ernest Hemingway | Ernest before Papa
Livemint
On the heels of a cameo in Midnight in Paris, Woody Allen's Paris-in-the-1920s nostalgia trip, and Hemingway's Boat: Everything He Loved in Life, and Lost, 1934-1961, Paul Hendrickson's warts-and-all biography, comes The Letters of Ernest ...
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Woody Allen | Woody Allen To Share All In New Documentary ...
Woody Allen To Share All In New Documentary | Filmmaker Woody Allen Has Opened Up The Doors Of His Private Life To Become The Subject Of His Very First ...
www.contactmusic.com/.../woody-allen-to-share-all-in-new-do...
Documentary reveals elusive Woody Allen - News and Gossip ...
A new Woody Allen documentary shows the usually private filmmaker up close and personal, charming and candid, and, yes, funny.
au.tv.yahoo.com/.../documentary-reveals-elusive-woody-allen/
Television review: 'Woody Allen: A Documentary'
Writer-director Woody Allen is the subject of a new documentary by Robert Weide. ...Allen's "Match Point" debuted at the Cannes Film Festival, the news ...
www.latimes.com/.../la-et-woody-allen-20111118,0,4231184...
'Woody Allen': A revealing documentary of reclusive ... - Deseret News
In 1978, “Star Wars” didn't win the Best Picture Oscar. It went to “Annie Hall,” along with Academy Award honors for Best.
www.deseretnews.com/.../Woody-Allen-A-revealing-documen...
Woody Allen, Latest News/Blogs on Woody Allen | Firstpost
Woody Allen couldn't make it, documentary filmmaker Robert Weide said. He sent his regrets, though, Weide added, deadpan: The Woodman would like nothing ...
www.firstpost.com/tag/woody-allen
Documentary Illuminates Elusive Woody Allen | XFINITY TV News
TV News. Documentary Illuminates Elusive Woody Allen. Woody Allen (PBS) ... NEWYORK — You will see his typewriter, the Olympia portable Woody Allen has ...
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"Woody Allen: A Documentary" more comprehensive than revelatory ...
Writer-director Woody Allen is the subject of a new documentary by Robert Weide . ...Woody Allen's "Match Point" debuted at the Cannes Film Festival, the news ...
www.latimes.com/.../la-et-woody-allen-20111118,0,4231184...
Woody Allen: A Documentary | HEADLINE NEWS ONLINE | LATEST ...
TV Reviews: As comprehensive and intimate a portrait of the comic genius as his personal quirks will allow. ...
www.headlinenewsonline.com/.../woody-allen-a-documentary
Son of Mia Farrow and Woody Allen a Rhodes scholar - CBS News
Son of Mia Farrow and Woody Allen a Rhodes scholar.
www.cbsnews.com/.../son-of-mia-farrow-and-woody-allen-a-r...
'Woody Allen: A Documentary' Trailer « CityofFilms.com We Love ...
Movie News, Movie Trailers, Film Reviews, Release Dates, Podcasts, and ... The greatWoody Allen is the focus of a new documentary to air on PBS as part of ...
www.cityoffilms.com/reel.../woody-allen-a-documentary-traile...
Diane Keaton Says She Was Bulimic While Dating Woody Allen ...
Diane Keaton and Woody Allen in a still from "Annie Hall." Diane Keaton, bulimic ? It's hard to picture the self-assured woman of wit abusing her mind and body, ...
abcnews.go.com/.../diane-keaton-says-she-was-bulimic-while-...
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