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Did Woody Allen Rip Off William Faulkner?
Two new cases could tighten copyright laws to a stifling extreme
To Rome with Love: Woody's Roman Holiday
The thematically or location-based anthology film tends to be a loose limbed, flighty creature, a chance to sample the wares of multiple directors. Paris, je...
Reading While Eating for June 21: Angels and Athletes
Do you believe in magic? A Missouri man believes an angel appeared on his chimney. (KOLR) “Woody-esque”: A montage of all of the people who channel Woody Allen...
Reading While Eating for June 18: Step on It
Best Father’s Day Tweet Ever: It’s going to be a fun Thanksgiving at Woody Allen’s house this year. (The Daily Wh.at) Happy Birthday Sir Paul! In this book...
Ulu Grosbard
A diamond cutter before his arrival in the U.S., the Belgian-born Ulu Grosbard, who died March 18 at 83, brought the same lapidary craftsmanship to theater and...
Which Is The Better Best Picture: Annie Hall or The Apartment?
ANNIE HALL “What’s with all these awards?” asks Alvy Singer in his usual tone of nerdy nerviness. “They’re always giving out awards. ‘Best Fascist Dictator:...
Watch Elvis, Woody Allen, Bruce Lee Sing Lionel Richie’s “Hello”
Someone edited together clips from 40 movies to form the first minute or so of Lionel Richie's uber-cheesy "Hello."
“It took a little edge off my natural blandness.”
Woody Allen notes in an American Masters documentary regarding his relationship with stepdaughter figure, now-wife Soon-Yi Previn. Allen was involved with...
Box Office: Horrible Is the Boss of Zookeeper -- But Where's Woody?
The killer bots of Transformers: Dark of the Moon trampled their two new rivals, amassing $47 million in the movie's second weekend, according to early...
Midnight in Paris: Woody Allen's Off-Key Love Song
Woody Allen loves Paris. He loves the rain and the statues, kiosks, Metro entrances. Most of all, he loves the rich history of a city whose inhabitants invented...
Festival Diary: The Morning Line
The art-film industry's rite of spring is upon us. The 64th Cannes Film Festival begins tomorrow with the promise of new work representing the finest...
Spin-Dried
Alice Directed and Written by Woody Allen Alice (Mia Farrow) is a lady who lunches. She also gets her hair done a lot and has a chronic backache and a...
Latin Lovers.
Cristina, a young American abroad--and as incarnated by Scarlett Johansson, a great American broad--is all set to fall into the bed of her wished-for Latin...
Woody Allen's Barcelona Summer of Love
I can see it coming, though I hope not soon: Woody Allen will die, and commentators will declare him one of the great American comic filmmakers — maybe not...
Woody Allen's Barcelona Problem
Woody Allen was engulfed by adoring fans in mid-June when he came to Barcelona to scout locations along the city's famed artery, Las Ramblas. The director...
Woody Allen on Ingmar Bergman
He created indelible allegories of postwar man adrift without God. He was the movies' great dramatist of strong, tortured women, and the finest director of...
Movies: One Scoop or Two? None
A handsome, charming Brit with a possible corpse or two in his closet: this was the premise of Match Point, Woody Allen's sharpest film in ages and his first to...
People: Jan. 9, 2006
A LAUREATE'S CHEERLEADERS Nothing says peace in our time like two Oscar-nominated actresses sharing the stage without a hint of diva behavior. SALMA HAYEK and...
Woody Allen and Women
QUESTION: IS LIFE A COMEDY OR A tragedy? Answer: It depends on your medication. That, at least, is what the old (young) Woody Allen might have said. But Allen,...
Q&A with Steve Carell
Daily Show correspondent Steve Carell plays a weatherman in Anchorman, out July 9. This is your third role as a TV newsman. Why are you better at faking...
