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Synopsis
After Woody Allen's almost 40 years in the spotlight, the lines have been blurred separating art and fact, myth and reality, and public and private life. Meade now offers the first uncensored biography to investigate this most celebrated, distinctive, and confounding filmmaker and reveals the controversial life behind the iconic public persona. of photos.
About the Author
Marion Meade is the author of Dorothy Parker: What Fresh Hell Is This? "Finally, this biography restores Parker to her true stature," raved the Chicago Tribune. She has also written biographies of Buster Keaton, Eleanor of Aquitaine, Madame Blavatsky, and Victoria Woodhull, as well as two novels. A graduate of Northwestern University and the Columbia Graduate School of Journalism, Meade has contributed articles to The New York Times, The Village Voice, and Ms. magazine. She lives in New York City.
Table of Contents
Contents AUTHOR'S NOTE
PROLOGUE: GRAPES OF WRATH
1 God and Carpeting
2 The Purple Rose of Midwood
3 Stand-Up
4 What's New, Pussycat?
5 The "Coatcheck Girl"
6 The Medici
7 "A Picture About Me"
8 Vanity Fair
9 Beware of Young Girls
10 Woody in Love
11 Pushing the Baby Cart
12 Dead Sharks
13 Sidney Kugelmass Meets His Biographers
14 The Coiled Cobra
15 What the Heart Wants
16 Dirty Laundry
17 Allen v. Farrow
18 Second Law of Thermodynamics
19 The Cost of Running Amok
20 Getting Even
21 "Help"
EPILOGUE: VICTIM OF AN IRREGULAR VERB
POSTSCRIPT
THE CAREER OF WOODY ALLEN
NOTES
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
INDEX