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- He describes women he dated as “delectable bohemian little kumquats.” Of second wife Louise Lasser, Allen writes, “She’d make a real effort to be the perfect girlfriend, but she never met a mattress she didn’t like and had a cottontail’s libido.”
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Apr 22, 2020 · Because mostly, Allen portrays Rosen not as a contentious intellectual castrater but as an attractive speedbump on his way to his second marriage. “She was Louise Lasser,” he writes.
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Jun 29, 2020 · He denies having realized that his gorgeous second wife, Louise Lasser, had serious emotional problems.
Jun 7, 2020 · Woody Allen’s memoir, Apropos of Nothing, is three things: a lively and deeply interesting account of his development as an artist; a lengthy, lurid, and vengeful denial of the child-abuse...
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Born in New York as Allan Stewart Konigsberg in 1935, the man who would later become famous as Woody Allen enjoyed a joyful, boisterous childhood. His father was a devil-may-care gun-loving bookmaker and cab driver, whose philosophy of life was as simple as “if you don’t have your health, you got nothing.” “Never a worry nor a care ever disturbed h...
Growing up as a kid in Brooklyn, Allen had a few fixations, but literature, philosophy and movies were not among them; sports and girls, on the other hand, were. He was, for lack of a better description, just an ordinary teenage boy. In fact, contrary to popular misconceptions, Allen wasn’t a “nerd” or a “geek” in school, but a skillful athlete, “t...
More than Chaplin or Ernst Lubitsch, Allen loved W. C. Fields and the Marx Brothers. And even more than them, he loved British stand-up comedian Bob Hope. He never missed a movie or a radio show featuring him. Slowly but surely, Allen’s desire to become a comedian flattened all the others. An event that contributed toward this outcome happened in h...
Allen was just 20 years old when he married Harlene Rosen, who was three years younger than he was. It was pretty much a marriage on a whim: Allen had a Plymouth convertible, a room at the Hollywood Hawaiian Hotel and a desperate desire to share these privileges of being in show business with his girlfriend. Besides, he says, “there was nothing els...
Allen was 30 years old when he was offered $30,000 by Warren Beatty and Charles Feldman for a comedy movie about male sex addiction. After many rewrites and even more recastings, “What’s New Pussycat?” hit the screens with Peter O’Toole, Romy Schneider and Peter Sellers in the main roles, and Allen in a minor one. The critics at the time were lukew...
Before Mia Farrow began a relationship with Woody Allen in 1980, she had gone through two failed marriages, both of them to men much older than her: singer Frank Sinatra and composer André Previn. With the latter, she had three biological sons and adopted three more children from Asia, including 7-year-old Korean Soon-Yi in 1977. Soon after beginni...
Despite his alleged misanthropy, Allen does seem disappointed with quite a few of his Hollywood peers, subtly reproaching some of them for hypocrisy or, more precisely, for publicly denouncing him just so they wouldn’t be shunned from public life and awards ceremonies by the “Appropriate Police” and the “#MeToo zealots.” In themselves, these two ph...
Reviewing “Apropos of Nothing” for Deadline Hollywood, Peter Bart described Allen’s memoir best when he said it was actually an anthology of three books: “One is a hilarious account of his Brooklyn upbringing; the second is a superbly revealing analysis of triumphs and flaws in his filmmaking; and the third is a baffling and unhinged report of his ...
Lest we want to create a dystopian “guilty by accusation” world, we ought to adhere to the fundamental principle of justice, as old as the Ancient Greeks and Romans: Audi alteram partem, “Let the other side be heard as well.”
Apr 6, 2022 · Woody Allen is not large, but he contains multitudes, and some of them show up in his “controversial” autobiography, Apropos of Nothing, which the powers of righteous wokitude finally allowed to be published back in 2020, which I got around to reading in 2021 and am now “reviewing” in 2022.
Apr 2, 2020 · Despite his marriage to Soon-Yi, 35 years his junior, Allen denies that he has been attracted to young girls, citing his relationships with Louise Lasser, Diane Keaton and Mia Farrow.
Apropos of Nothing is a 2020 memoir by American filmmaker and humorist Woody Allen. The book was originally due to be published by Grand Central Publishing, an imprint of Hachette Book Group, in April 2020, but on March 6, 2020, Hachette said they would no longer publish it.
