Article: The Transformation of Allan Konigsberg: Two Less-Than-Flattering Portraits; Woody Allen; A Biography; The Unruly Life of Woody Allen

Sklar, Robert
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02-04-2000
The Transformation Of Allan Konigsberg: Two Less-Than-Flattering Portraits;
Woody Allen; A Biography; The Unruly Life of Woody Allen

Biographers of aging celebrities must feel like newspaper obituary writers
who file away their future death notices while their living subjects
merrily pursue their pranks and foibles, necessitating many rewrites.
Marion Meade can barely contain her impatience at Woody Allen's persistence
in remaining alive and thereby denying her book finality and definitive
judgment. John Baxter clunks to a stop when there are no more films to
write about, declaring grimly that his subject will have "no peace this
side of the grave."

No peace, that ...

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