Woody
Subtitle: the biography
By: David Evanier
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 384
ISBN-13: 9781250047267
Subjects: Motion picture producers and directors; Biography; Comedians; Motion picture actors and actresses
Description: "In this first biography of Woody Allen in over a decade, David Evanier discusses key movies, plays and prose as well as Allen's personal life. Evanier tackles the themes that Allen has spent a lifetime sorting through in art: morality, sexuality, Judaism, the eternal struggle of head and heart. Woody will be the definitive word on a major American talent as he begins his ninth decade, and his sixth decade of making movies"--
Notes: Subtitle from cover.

Includes filmography (pages 353-362), bibliographical references (pages 363-366) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: How I got to Woody; title: Enchantment was the reason; title: "Writing saved his life"; title: The real Broadway Danny Rose; title: "Woody, c'est moi"; title: Bathing in honey; title: "As tough and romantic as the city he loved"; title: The woman who saves Leonard Zelig; title: Dick and Woody; title: "Startling intimations of greatness"; title: Sex, lies, and videotapes; title: Woody pulls the rabbit out of the hat-again; title: Balls of steel; title: Epilogue: Touching the entire world.