The Unruly Life of Woody Allen

I would say that this book was a disappointment, but then again, I didn't have high hopes for it. This "biography" of Woody Allen is more of an excuse to write about the Woody/Mia circus, which takes up over half of the text. As such, the first parts of the book, a cursory look at Allen's life up to......more

Bright as he was, or perhaps because he was so intelligent, Woody (born Allan Konigsberg) was a difficult child at school, often playing hooky, his mother making numerous trips to school to explain his behavior. He was a reluctant reader, although he would devour as many as fifty comic books per day......more

As a teenager and young adult, Woody Allen as a movie maker, short story writer and comedian was on my Mount Rushmore of influences alongside Kurt Vonnegut, Randy Newman, just about anybody involved with the first several seasons of Saturday Night Live, and John and Paul. Marion Meade's well-researc......more

An honest and unsentimental bio of Woody Allen Marion Meade’s bio of Woody Allen is an unsentimental, unflattering look at a man whose life has been controversial and tainted by scandal. Meade does a good job of covering Woody’s early years as well as his more recent ones, and presents her subject wi......more

APL Recycled Reads find. A very well written story of a flawed human who who has creative talent and his former love interest who is a nut case. Despite being a nut case she was able to adopt over a dozen children. The story points out what money can do with the rules and the legal system as well as......more