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Article: Woody Allen.
- Article from:
- Video Age International
- Article date:
- November 1, 1991
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WOODY ALLEN by Eric Lax (Knopf, 385 p.) is an unusual biography, not only in that it is one of the very few biographies that combine Allen's personal life with his large volume of film work, but also because it manages to give a fascinating insight into a man everybody knows -- and nobody knows.
Allen's reluctance to come into the limelight is legendary. Lax, who has been close to him for some years, is in a wonderful position to explain the man, his creative and thought processes, his neuroses and his unique ways of putting thoughts on film. Clearly, Lax is an admirer as well as an observer, and perhaps the book suffers from that, but it is a revealing study of ...