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Woody Allen : a travesty of a mockery of a sham / Patrick McGilligan.

By: Material type: TextTextOriginal language: English Publisher: London : Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, 2025Edition: First editionDescription: xiii, 826 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780062941336 (hardcover)
  • 006294133X (hardcover)
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 791.430233092
LOC classification:
  • PN 1998.3  A432M 2025
Contents:
Fanfare: 2025: Death defying act I. Easy writer. 1935: Prep day 1955: The Woodman cometh 1961: The big noise II. Mr. Everything. 1965: The first golden age 1970: Clockwork 1977: Mr. Secretive III. Scenes from a non-marriage. 1980: The second golden age 1985: Sleepwalking into a mess 1992: The great unpleasantness IV. The great rectification campaign. 1993: The tears of a clown 1999: The Soon-Yi era 2012: Stuff happens V. A travesty of a mockery of a sham. 2016: Mr. Nothing
Summary: Across nearly nine eventful decades, Allen's life has been full of surprises. Writing jokes got him a gig as the youngest writer of Sid Caesar's television dream team. As a rising comic, he boxed a kangaroo on TV. He made a blank-check deal with a major studio for terms unmatched in Hollywood apart from early titans like Chaplin and Welles. All before Annie Hall. Yet despite once being one of the most consequen­tial American cultural figures, Allen is now persona non grata. In this judicious biography, acclaimed biographer Patrick McGilligan charts the meteoric rise and fall of the comedian whose nonconformity proved both his secret genius and Achilles' heel. Drawing on meticulous research, McGilli­gan reconstructs Allen's Brooklyn boyhood, his salad days as a television comedy writer, his rise to stand-up, and the thoughtful, award-winning film­making of his golden years in the 1970s and '80s. His messy relationships with wives and girl­friends, including Annie Hall costar Diane Keaton, were essential to his artistic development and undo­ing. Yet no one could have predicted his tumultuous personal and professional relationship with actress Mia Farrow, his alleged abuse of their adopted daughter Dylan, and his subsequent marriage to Mia's daughter Soon-Yi Previn. In this comprehensive, sweeping, and rigor­ous account of Allen's life and career, McGilligan astutely reveals the writer's writer beyond the smoke and controversy, and paints a compelling portrait of the most creative, productive, and influential film­maker of his time"-- Provided by publisher Amazon.com.
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PN 1998.3 A432L 2000 Woody Allen : a biography / PN 1998.3 A432L 2007 Conversations with Woody Allen : his films, the movies and moviemaking / PN 1998.3 A432L 2008 Entretiens avec Woody Allen / PN 1998.3 A432M 2025 Woody Allen : a travesty of a mockery of a sham / PN 1998.3 A432p 1995 Le petit Woody Allen illustré / PN 1998.3 A432w 2004 Woody Allen on Woody Allen / PN 1998.3 A432w 2016 Woody Allen : interviews /

Includes Filmography (pages 778-800).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Fanfare: 2025: Death defying act
I. Easy writer. 1935: Prep day
1955: The Woodman cometh
1961: The big noise
II. Mr. Everything. 1965: The first golden age
1970: Clockwork
1977: Mr. Secretive
III. Scenes from a non-marriage. 1980: The second golden age
1985: Sleepwalking into a mess
1992: The great unpleasantness
IV. The great rectification campaign. 1993: The tears of a clown
1999: The Soon-Yi era
2012: Stuff happens
V. A travesty of a mockery of a sham. 2016: Mr. Nothing

Across nearly nine eventful decades, Allen's life has been full of surprises. Writing jokes got him a gig as the youngest writer of Sid Caesar's television dream team. As a rising comic, he boxed a kangaroo on TV. He made a blank-check deal with a major studio for terms unmatched in Hollywood apart from early titans like Chaplin and Welles. All before Annie Hall. Yet despite once being one of the most consequen­tial American cultural figures, Allen is now persona non grata. In this judicious biography, acclaimed biographer Patrick McGilligan charts the meteoric rise and fall of the comedian whose nonconformity proved both his secret genius and Achilles' heel. Drawing on meticulous research, McGilli­gan reconstructs Allen's Brooklyn boyhood, his salad days as a television comedy writer, his rise to stand-up, and the thoughtful, award-winning film­making of his golden years in the 1970s and '80s. His messy relationships with wives and girl­friends, including Annie Hall costar Diane Keaton, were essential to his artistic development and undo­ing. Yet no one could have predicted his tumultuous personal and professional relationship with actress Mia Farrow, his alleged abuse of their adopted daughter Dylan, and his subsequent marriage to Mia's daughter Soon-Yi Previn. In this comprehensive, sweeping, and rigor­ous account of Allen's life and career, McGilligan astutely reveals the writer's writer beyond the smoke and controversy, and paints a compelling portrait of the most creative, productive, and influential film­maker of his time"-- Provided by publisher Amazon.com.

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