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Article: WOODY ALLEN'S WORST SCRIPT.(Main)
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- Albany Times Union (Albany, NY)
- Article date:
- August 27, 1992
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Byline: Suzanne Fields
Woody Allen is right about one thing. We shouldn't confuse Woody Allen, the man, with Woody Allen, the director-actor- writer.
In his fictional narratives, he's a nebbish, a clown, a witty neurotic Jewish intellectual, a moral dissector of all manner of trivia and temptation, a comedian who feels guilty if he steals a kiss or second base.
In real life, if we are to believe his interviews in Time and Newsweek, he's obtuse, unfunny, a Freudian dunce, devoid of shame, culpability or insight. He talks about a sexual relationship with his long-time mistress Mia Farrow's adopted daughter, age 21, for whom he was a paternal ...