Woody Allen
March 20, 2009
some of his quotes:
-”whenever things go bad, the two things i’ve always been able to do are lose myself in work and lose myself in sleep.”
-”i have seen the future, and it’s very much like the present, only longer.
his top films:
1) Vicky Cristina Barcelona(2008)
2) Match Point (2005)
3)Everyone Says I Love You (1996)
4) Deconstructing Harry (1997)
5) Sweet and London (1999)
6) Scoop (2006)
7) Small Time Crooks (2000)
8 ) Celebrity (1998)
9) The Curse of the Jade Scorpion (2001)
(http://www.imdb.com/find?s=all&q=woody+allen)
About his life:
Woody Allen was born and raised in New York. His family was Jewish and his grandparents were Yiddish and German speaking immigrants. His childhood wasn’t particularly happy. His parents didn’t get along, and he had a rocky relationship with his stern, temperamental mother.
To raise money he began writing gags for the agent David O. Alber, who sold them to newspaper columnists. According to Allen, his first published joke “was in a gossip column. It read: ‘Woody Allen says he ate at a restaurant that had O.P.S. prices—over people’s salaries.’”
At 16, he was discovered by Milt Kamen, who got him his first writing job with SidCaesar. He began calling himself Woody Allen. He was a gifted comedian from an early age and would later joke that when he was young he was sent to inter-faith summer camp, where he “was savagely beaten by children of all races and creeds”.
After high school, he went to New York University (NYU) where he studied communication and film. He was never committed as a student, so he failed a film course, and was eventually expelled. He later briefly attended City College of New York.
