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Article: Game, set, 'Match': Woody Allen serves up another winner with a decidedly un-Woody picture
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- January 1, 2006
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NEW YORK -- Can it be true? At a time when the likes of Paris
Hilton are capable of inspiring a Christmas shrine, Woody is hot
again.
That's Woody Allen, of course, the bespectacled nerd with the
ginger hair, pipsqueak physique and existential Borscht Belt humor
who made films that mattered, such as 1977's still-sublime best-
picture Oscar winner, "Annie Hall."
Steadfast fans might have been able to forgive, or at least
discount, the 70-year-old filmmaker's past indiscretions. (Perhaps
you heard about the 1992 scandal that erupted when then-companion Mia
Farrow discovered that the man in her life was secretly romancing her
adopted daughter, Soon-Yi, now his wife of eight years.)
But ...