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Barcode33333003381239
StatusChecked Out
Circ StatusDue on 4/10/2025
LibraryBeaver
TitleWoody Allen : a travesty of a mockery of a sham / Patrick McGilligan.
AuthorMcGilligan, Patrick, author. https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PBJwdjptKM93dDx7MPYhyh3 https://isni.org/isni/0000000122758398.
Call No92 Allen
CollectionBiography
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Catalog Details

International Standard Book Number 9780062941336
International Standard Book Number 006294133X
Dewey Decimal Classification Number 791.43/023
Personal Name McGilligan, Patrick, author.
Title Statement Woody Allen : a travesty of a mockery of a sham / Patrick McGilligan.
Varying Form of Title Travesty of a mockery of a sham.
Edition Statement First edition.
Imprint ©2025.
Imprint New York, NY : Harper, [2025]
Physical Description xiii, 826 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm.
Bibliography, Etc. Note Includes bibliographical references (pages 737-775), filmography (pages 777-800), and index.
Formatted Contents Note Fanfare: 2025 : a death defying act -- I. Easy writer: 1935 : prep day ; 1955 : the Woodman cometh ; 1961 : the big noise -- II. Mr. Everything: 1965 : the first golden age ; 1970 : clockwork ; 1977 : Mr. Secretive -- III. Scenes from a non-marriage: 1980 : the second golden age ; 1985 : sleepwalking into a mess ; 1992 : the great unpleasantness -- IV. The great rectification campaign: 1993 : the tears of a clown ; 1999 : the Soon-Yi era ; 2012 : stuff happens -- V. A travesty of a mockery of a sham: 2016 : Mr. Nothing.
Summary, Etc. "Across nearly nine eventful decades, Allen's life has been full of surprises. Writing jokes got him a gig as the youngest writer of Sid Caesar's television dream team. As a rising comic, he boxed a kangaroo on TV. He made a blank-check deal with a major studio for terms unmatched in Hollywood apart from early titans like Chaplin and Welles. All before Annie Hall. Yet despite once being one of the most consequen­tial American cultural figures, Allen is now persona non grata. In this judicious biography, biographer Patrick McGilligan charts the meteoric rise and fall of the comedian whose nonconformity proved both his secret genius and Achilles' heel. Drawing on meticulous research, McGilli­gan reconstructs Allen's Brooklyn boyhood, his salad days as a television comedy writer, his rise to stand-up, and the thoughtful, award-winning film­making of his golden years in the 1970s and '80s. His messy relationships with wives and girl­friends, including Annie Hall costar Diane Keaton, were essential to his artistic development and undo­ing. Yet no one could have predicted his tumultuous personal and professional relationship with actress Mia Farrow, his alleged abuse of their adopted daughter Dylan, and his subsequent marriage to Mia's daughter Soon-Yi Previn. In this comprehensive, sweeping, and rigor­ous account of Allen's life and career, McGilligan astutely reveals the writer's writer beyond the smoke and controversy, and paints a compelling portrait of the most creative, productive, and influential film­maker of his time"-- Provided by publisher.
Subject-Personal Name Allen, Woody, 1935-
Subject Added Entry - Topical Term Actors Biography.
Subject Added Entry - Topical Term Motion picture producers and directors United States Biography.
Index Term-Genre/Form Biographies.