The Unruly Life of Woody Allen: A Biography

by Meade, Marion

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Scribner, 2000. Hardcover. Very Good. From Publishers Weekly In the second Allen bio in as many months, novelist and biographer Meade (Dorothy Parker: What Fresh Hell Is This?) provides a psychologically nuanced, tough-minded portrait of the filmmaker that's a good counterpoint to John Baxter's exhaustive coverage of Allen's oeuvre in Woody Allen: A Biography (Forecasts, Nov. 15). While Meade certainly doesn't slight Allen's work, she has a better feel than the Paris-based Baxter for Allen's milieu, including the role of New York film critics, and uses a broader mix of sources to reconstruct it. (Allen refused to cooperate.) Accenting her agile narrative with pertinent shtick from his films, she presents Rashomon-like observations from friends and enemies about Allen's loyalty and ethics.--- Toronto Store Pick-up Available.

Book summary

In this unauthorized biography of Woody Allen, acclaimed biographer Marion Meade accuses the controversial filmmaker of stooping to unscrupulous means in order to finance his films and of manipulating the media, his family, and his adoring fans. Meade also analyzes the "Woody-Mia Scandal" and Allen's failed marriages.