Can we separate Woody Allen the artist from the man born Allan Stewart Konigsberg?
Patrick McGilligan's doorstopper of a biography addresses Allen's professional achievements and also his personal deficits
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Culture Should Jews mourn the loss of the Friars Club?
The onetime haunt of showbiz stalwarts like George Burns and Alan King was auctioned at a foreclosure sale
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Culture Has Woody Allen ever told you how lucky he is?
With his 50th film, 'Coup de Chance,' the director shrugs off abuse allegations and returns once again to a theme that's been a constant throughout his career
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Film & TV ‘Succession’ is over. But have you seen Jesse Armstrong’s Woody Allen-inspired short?
Well before he took on the Murdochs, Armstrong chronicled the life of a misfit Welsh pseudo-Jew
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Fast Forward Woody Allen saves his friend with Heimlich maneuver at dinner with Alan Dershowitz
The director saved former Manhattan borough president Andrew Stein from choking at Caravaggio on the Upper East Side
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Fast Forward Ehud Barak, Woody Allen, Noam Chomsky appeared on Jeffrey Epstein’s meetings calendar
The revelations were part of a trove of documents uncovered by The Wall Street Journal
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Culture Alec Baldwin interviewed Woody Allen on Instagram — the tech issues were the best part
An otherwise dull conversation was enlivened by Wi-Fi issues
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Culture Woody Allen’s latest is playing in a New York theater — but is anybody going to see it? Anybody?
On Tuesday I opted to spend a gorgeous afternoon in New York City going to a movie. The movie was “Rifkin’s Festival,” Woody Allen’s latest and a film that presently has a 42% on Rotten Tomatoes with a 50% audience score. Given this tepid reception, I wondered who was going to see Allen’s film, which…
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