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 Woody Allen - John Baxter
 Woody Allen - John Baxter ... with her adopted daughter Soon-Yi Previn, the furore that swept the world media...Newest Review: ... place. Baxter skims through Allen' early life without coming up with anything especially earth - shattering for Allen fans. ... more ... Woody hated school, he prefered cinema and doing magic tricks to reality and wanted to be a magician once. He even had dreams of becoming a boxer like the great Willie Pep, who Baxter wrongly informs us was a flyweight. Pep was a featherweight but I digress. Allen's one talent is his ability to come up with jokes and one - liners. In the spring of 1952 Allen begins sending jokes to newspaper columnists and is soon making money. There are some evocative sections about the young Woody's days as a stand - up comic in th...more |
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Woody Allen - John Baxter: Enigma (1358 words)
by - written on 03/08/08 (Very useful, 193 readings)
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'Woody Allen: A Biography' was first published in 1998 and written by John Baxter, whose previous books include biographies of various cinematic greats such as Stanley Kubrick and Fellini. It won't come as a huge suprise to know that Woody Allen had nothing to do with this book which can be aptly described as 'Un - sycophantic'. The front cover features the top half of Allen's head as if he is peering over a wall. Yes, we get it, Woody Allen isn't very tall. With that huge revelation, that I'm sure no one had ever noticed before, we begin. The book begins with a preface. Woody Allen is playing clarinet at a local New York pub, as he has done for ... Read the complete review
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