Article: Woody Allen: four years ago, the Bard of New York nebbishes hightailed it to Europe and began a new chapter in his career. Here, the legendary writer and director opens up about his latest film, Vicky Cristina Barcelona, his seduction by Scarlett Johansson, his return to the big apple, and how he got his modernist Manhattanite mojo back.(Interview)

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Woody Allen started his career in show business as a teenager. He would send in jokes to the popular newspaper columnists of the day--men like Earl Wilson and Walter Winchell--who would print the ones they liked and attribute them to Woody. Of course he did not inform these big Broadway columnists that he was a student at Midwood High School in Brooklyn--that might have killed the big Broadway sheen they liked their columns to have. One day, someone from a big PR firm asked Wilson, "Who is Woody Allen?" Wilson didn't know--the stuff came in through the mail. "Some guy in Brooklyn," he said.

The PR people located Woody and hired him ...

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