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THE UNRULY LIFE OF WOODY ALLEN
Marion Meade
NEW Hardcover
$28
Woody Allen was one of our era’s most celebrated, distinctive, and confounding filmmakers. To fans, his films have represented an ongoing autobiography, through which he has bared his self-deprecating overanalytical soul to the world. It was not until 1992, when his stormy private life turned into sensational headlines, that the cracks in the familiar persona appeared. The lines separating art and fact, myth and reality, public and private life, became increasingly blurred. Marion Meade tracked down scores of people in Allen’s life who had never before spoken on the record about Allen: boyhood pals; Brooklyn neighbors and teachers; colleagues Buddy Hackett and Mel Brooks; actors Maureen Stapleton, Max von Sydow, and Bob Hope; director Sydney Pollack; and the film reviewers who have followed his career for decades. Meade also details numerous examples of art imitating life in Allen’s films, particularly the saga behind his marriage to the adopted daughter of his long-time lover, Mia Farrow. In reconstructing Allen’s life, Meade explores the cult of celebrity in America — how it is our own infatuation with the rich and famous that has made it possible for this supremely talented man to shrewdly manipulate both the media and the moviegoing public.
384 pages, ISBN 978-0684833743
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