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Article: Woody Allen adored New York City, but Europe adores him.(Preview)
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- Albany Times Union (Albany, NY)
- Article date:
- May 22, 2008
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Byline: DAVID GERMAIN - Associated Press
CANNES, France - Europe ans get jazz and they get Woody Allen - more so than they do in America, the native land of both the filmmaker and the music form he loves.
Allen may prefer to stay home in Manhattan, but his movies travel well, earning coveted spots at film festivals in Europe and packing in audiences there that have helped keep his career afloat when crowds were thin in the United States.
With his latest of many trips to the Cannes Film Festival, where his new romance "Vicky Cristina Barcelona" premiered, Allen pondered his European esteem.
"I could never understand why my films right ...