Best Selling Books by Woody ALLEN

The Long-Awaited, Enormously Entertaining Memoir by One of the Great Artists of Our Time—Now a New York Times, USA Today, Los Angeles Times, and Publisher’s Weekly Bestseller. In this candid and often hilarious memoir, the celebrated director, comedian, writer, and actor offers a comprehensive, personal look at his tumultuous life. Beginning with his Brooklyn childhood and his stint as a writer for the Sid Caesar variety show in the early days of television, working alongside comedy greats, Allen tells of his difficult early days doing standup before he achieved recognition and success. With his unique storytelling pizzazz, he recounts his departure into moviemaking, with such slapstick comedies as Take the Money and Run, and revisits his entire, sixty-year-long, and enormously productive career as a writer and director, from his classics Annie Hall, Manhattan, and Annie and Her Sisters to his most recent films, including Midnight in Paris. Along the way, he discusses his marriages, his romances and famous friendships, his jazz playing, and his books and plays. We learn about his demons, his mistakes, his successes, and those he loved, worked with, and learned from in equal measure. This is a hugely entertaining, deeply honest, rich and brilliant self-portrait of a celebrated artist who is ranked among the greatest filmmakers of our time.

Interviews with the well-known director of Manhattan, Hannah and Her Sisters, Crimes and Misdemeanors, Bullets Over Broadway, and the Oscar-winning Annie Hall

His first new collection of short humor in fifteen years is classic Woody Allen. Zero Gravity is the fifth collection of comic pieces by Woody Allen, a hilarious prose stylist whose enduring appeal readers have savored since his classics Getting Even, Without Feathers, Side Effects, and Mere Anarchy. This new work combines pieces that have appeared in The New Yorker along with eleven written exclusively for this book, each a comic inspiration. Whether he’s writing about horses that paint, cars that think, the sex lives of celebrities, or how General Tso’s Chicken got its name, he is always totally original, broad yet sophisticated, acutely observant, and most important, relentlessly funny. Along with titles like “Buffalo Wings, Woncha Come Out Tonight” and “When Your Hood Ornament Is Nietzsche,” included in this collection is his poignant but very funny short story, "Growing Up in Manhattan.” Daphne Merkin has written the foreword. Zero Gravity implies writing not to be taken seriously, but, as with any true humor, not all the laughs are weightless.

Three delightful one-act plays set in and around New York, in which sophisticated characters confound one another in ways only Woody Allen could imagine Woody Allen’s first dramatic writing published in years, “Riverside Drive,” “Old Saybrook,” and “Central Park West” are humorous, insightful, and unusually readable plays about infidelity. The characters, archetypal New Yorkers all, start out talking innocently enough, but soon the most unexpected things arise—and the reader enjoys every minute of it (though not all the characters do). These plays (successfully produced on the New York stage and in regional theaters on the East Coast) dramatize Allen’s continuing preoccupation with people who rationalize their actions, hide what they’re doing, and inevitably slip into sexual deception—all of it revealed in Allen’s quintessentially pell-mell dialogue.

In a series of interviews Woody Allen shares the anxieties, frustrations, and inspirations in his life.

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Polêmica, espirituosa, poética e muito esperada: Woody Allen: a autobiografia Neste livro Woody Allen não se poupa de nenhum assunto. Em um relato destemido, cômico e profundo, o diretor, comediante, escritor e ator traz um olhar pessoal e completo sobre sua vida repleta de polêmicas e conquistas. Woody Allen: a autobiografia parte de sua infância no Brooklyn passando pelo início da carreira como roteirista-assistente de grandes nomes da comédia televisiva norte-americana. O artista fala sobre as dificuldades desse processo, como quando fazia apresentações de stand-up em clubes obscuros, e relembra como migrou para o cinema com comédias pastelão que hoje se tornaram clássicos, como Um assaltante bem trapalhão. Enquanto revisita seus sessenta anos de carreira e suas produções que marcaram gerações, como Noivo neurótico, noiva nervosa, Manhattan e Annie e suas irmãs, até suas produções mais recentes (Meia-noite em Paris e Um dia de chuva em Nova York), Woody fala sobre seus casamentos, romances, amigos, sua relação com o jazz, seus livros e suas peças. De forma audaciosa, o cineasta não se poupa de nenhum assunto e avalia seus demônios, erros, sucessos e aqueles a quem amou e com quem trabalhou. Ele esmiúça sua conturbada relação com a ex-companheira Mia Farrow, estrela de vários de seus filmes, incluindo as acusações de abuso sexual contra Dylan, a filha adotiva do casal; o polêmico casamento com Soon-Yi; o rompimento da amizade com o banqueiro brasileiro Jacqui Safra, financiador de vários de seus filmes e como a política do cancelamento atingiu sua vida e obra. Woody Allen: a autobiografia é um retrato profundamente honesto, ousado e cômico do mais celebrado e controverso cineasta do nosso tempo.

Here, in his first collection since his three hilarious classics Getting Even, Without Feathers, and Side Effects, Woody Allen has managed to write a book that not only answers the most profound questions of human existence but is also the perfect size to place under any short table leg to prevent wobbling. In hysterical flights of inspirational sanity we are introduced to a cast of characters only Allen could imagine: Jasper Nutmeat, Flanders Mealworm, and the independent film mogul E. Coli Biggs, just to name a few. Whether he is writing about art, sex, food, or crime, he is explosively funny. In “This Nib for Hire,” a Hollywood bigwig comes across an author’s book in a little country store and describes it in a way that aptly captures this magnificent volume: “Actually,” the producer says, “I’d never seen a book remaindered in the kindling section before.” Praise for Mere Anarchy: INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER “The stories in Mere Anarchy deliver the same joys and foibles that have been with its author from the start.” –Janet Maslin, The New York Times “Uproarious . . . In each story the ornate and the vulgate slam together and make it rain polysyllabic absurdity.” –The Wall Street Journal “Nostalgically enjoyable . . . The stories in Mere Anarchy deliver the same joys and foibles that have been with its author from the start.” –The New York Times “Brilliant neurotica . . . unfailingly entertaining . . . [an] obsessive and seriously funny book.” –Los Angeles Times Book Review “Like the Carnegie’s one-pound sandwiches, Allen’s literary slapstick is . . . comedy on wry.” –USA Today

For the first time in one hardcover edition, here are three best-selling books by one of 20th century''s greatest movie directors. Woody Allen is an American cultural icon -- funny, philosophical, and controversial in his work and personal life. In this side-splitting collection, containing Without Feathers, Getting Even, and Side Effects. the Academy Award-winning filmmaker explores subjects ranging from sleeplessness to the UFO menace. No Woolly fan will want to be without his hilarious ruminations on the moral and ethical predicaments of modern life.

Comprising the classic bestsellers Getting Even, Without Feathers, and Side Effects, this definitive collection of comic writings is from a man who needs no Introduction. Really–this book has no Introduction. The Insanity Defense reveals many sides of Woody Allen as he holds forth on the most human of urges (“Why does man kill? He kills for food. And not only for food: frequently there must be a beverage”); reflects on death (“I don’t believe in an afterlife, although I am bringing a change of underwear”); and notes the effect on history wrought by trick chewing gum, the dribble glass, and other novelties. There is also an inspiring story of the futile race to beat Dr. Heimlich to the punch: “The food went down the wrong pipe, and choking occurred. Grasping the mouse firmly by the tail, I snapped it like a small whip, and the morsel of cheese came loose. If we can transfer the procedure to humans, we may have something. Too early to tell.” All Woody Allen fans will cherish this uproarious treasury–and those who don’t enjoy The Insanity Defense are just plain crazy. “If you don’t care if you break into helpless whoops of laughter on buses, trains, or wherever you happen to be reading it.” –Chicago Tribune, on Without Feathers “Brilliant flights of fancy whose comic detail and inspired silliness are at once dramatic and controlled.” –The New York Times, on Side Effects

Farce / 12m, 4f / Int. A cascade of comedy and a solid hit on Broadway, this affair takes place inside an American embassy behind the Iron Curtain. An American tourist, a caterer by trade, and his wife and daughter rush into the embassy two steps ahead of the police who suspect them of spying and picture taking. It''s not much of a refuge, for the ambassador is absent and his son, now in charge, has been expelled from a dozen countries and the continent of Africa. Nevertheless, they carefully

Collects three hundred "Inside Woody Allen" newspaper comic strips by Stuart Hample from between 1976 and 1984, shot off the original art and based on the life and jokes of Woody Allen.

Three more marvelously readable screenplays of movies by the incomparable Woody Allen. Stills throughout.

Celebration of a great talent.

Each play is an absurdist take on marital infidelity, one instance set on the Upper West Side of Manhattan and the other in Old Saybrook, Connecticut. "Riverside Drive''s" Fred Savage, a homicidal, paranoid, schizophrenic vagrant ex-copywriter, has been stalking a screenwriter for weeks, convinced that his prey stole his idea - in fact, his life - to create a successful movie plot. In "Old Saybrooke," an orthodontist is hosting her sister and golf-mad brother-in-law, a plastic surgeon, at her grand suburban house. When a couple who once owned the building stops by, they spark an old fashioned sex farce that is full of verve and cunning.

Comedy Woody Allen Characters: 18 male, 2 female (doubling possible). Bare stage, simple props. A maniacal killer is at large and Kleinman is caught between conflicting factions with plans on how to catch him. Kleinman, a logical man in a mad world, is indecisive and insecure; he doesn''t want to get involved but everyone is after him to make a choice. He is even accused of being the culprit. When Kleinman confronts the maniac (who looks no different from anyone els

Quien no recuerda, entre los acordes de Rhapsody in blue, las imagenes de los rascacielos y puentes de Manhattan con que arranca el mejor homenaje de un director a Nueva York y a sus neuroticos habitantes ? B+Amaba Nueva Yorkb& La habia hecho desproporcionadamente romantica. No importaba cual fuese la estacion, para el era una ciudad en blanco y negro que vibraba al son de las grandes melodias de George GershwinB; , dice la voz en off de Isaac (Woody Allen) al comienzo de Manhattan, la comica y encantadora cronica de varias parejas de la seudointelectualidad neoyorkina.Nadie negara que en un cine como el de Woody Allen, donde los personajes no paran de hablar, se interrumpen y se atropellan con asombrosa espontaneidad, la lectura del guion siempre resulta gozosamente enriquecedora, no solo para cinefilos y entusiastas, sino tambien para el lector comun, que puede leer el filme como si de una narracion dialogada se tratara y sorprenderse con la sinceridad y el humor de su autor.

Woody Allen ha sido siempre un provocador. Con esa pinta de infeliz que no se come una rosca, se permite insolencias que ni siquiera los más «duros» pueden a veces perdonar. Tras ser expulsado de la New York University y del City College, se dedicó a lo que realmente le interesaba : escribir para la radio y la televisión. También escribió su primer guión cinematográfico : What ́s new Pussicat. No contento con violentar a la gente desde un escenario, consiguió finalmente hacerlo desde la pantalla. Le faltaba un medio para mejor fastidiar : la palabra escrita. De modo que empezó a colaborar regularmente en la revista The New Yorker, de donde proviene la mayoría de los textos reunidos en este volumen. Como escritor Woody Allen quiere acabar de una vez por todas con la cultura, aunque tendría primero que acabar con consigo mismo, porque, no cabe duda, Woody Allen lo sabe absolutamente todo y se permite el lujo de ironizar sobre Freud y la psiquiatría, Kant y la filosofía, Ingmar Bergman y el cine, Gretrude Stein y las autobiografías, la mafia y todos los padrinos, los políticos, el poder y la autoridad, en fin, todo lo que creíamos verdades e instituciones inquebrantables.

Short Plays / Comedy / 2m, 3f / 3 ints. This long-running Off Broadway hit features the work of three gifted playwrights. David Mamet''s AN INTERVIEW is an oblique, mystifying interrogation. A sleazy lawyer is forced to answer difficult questions and to admit the truth about his life and career. The why and where of the interrogation provide a surprise ending to this brilliant twenty minute comedy. In HOTLINE by Elaine May, a neurotic woman with enough urban angst to fill a neighborhood calls a

The illustrated screenplay of Woody Allen''s most successful film to date, which has already received higher praise and bigger boxoffice returns than Annie Hall. Photographs.

Ecrivain new-yorkais d''aujourd''hui, Harry (Woody Allen) se penche sur les péripéties tumultueuses et multiples de son existence de créateur et de sa vie amoureuse. Une comédie écrite, réalisée et interprétée par le cinéaste amércain, où le héros se trouve confrontée à une succession d''aventures débridées jusqu''à l''hystérie. Le film du même titre sort en salle en janvier 1998.