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Article: Woody: Movies from Manhattan.
(book reviews)
- Article from:
- Journal of Popular Film & Television
- Article date:
- June 22, 1998
- Author:
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By Julian Fox. New York: Overlook Press, 1996. 285 pp. $26.95 cloth.
Any reviewer needs to ask whether we need another book on Woody Allen; Allen is already the most extensively documented film comedy auteur since Charlie Chaplin. The filmmaker has already granted a large number of interviews about his work, and his sets remain open to selected observers, including journalists like Julian Fox. One of the best known Allen biographers, John Lahr, wrote that "a plethora of people have written about Woody Allen, and they either like him or dislike him. But no one has yet managed, I think, to interpret him." If this is true, then Julian Fox is justified in making his ...