Few directors the world share while the same amount of prestige and popularity that Woody Allen. Emblem auteur but also popular culture icon of the 20th century, Allen arrives at its 80 years filming with an enviable rate of almost one film a year (his last released here was unreasonable man). Octogenarian to celebrate the birthday of the artist, we review five facts linked to his biography.
1. Rudeness. Born December 1, 1935 in Brooklyn (New York) with the name Allan Stewart Konigsberg, Allen was a boy nornal. Despite their appearance or intellectual nerd, it was popular in school and played sports like basketball and baseball. His notes on the Hebrew School and Midwood High School were ordinary, and even became expelled from City College. According to him, the reason was that he cheated in the examination of metaphysics “to spy on the soul mate next door.”
2. Magic Light Manhattan. is famous Allen’s penchant for music, more precisely to jazz. Allen plays the clarinet every Monday in Manhattan Carlyle pub, perfect excuse for absence from the Oscars each year. But few know another hobby of Allen, the magic. The principal interest of the child in the world of tricks in which apparently was very good, but ended up leaving because it was an exercise that required a lot of loneliness. Still, Allen got the magic in his films, while many of his films deal with the conflicting relationship between reality and fantasy. There is for example his recent Magic in the light of the moon.
3. Joker employee. Allen was a precocious genius, and this was shown in how quickly became a place as a writer in the New York press. The director began collaborating with daily at age 15, and at 19 was already writing scripts for television shows like The Ed Sullivan Show and The Tonight Show . At that point already he earned more money than their parents together. Finally, in the 1960s also he dabbled in stand up, a genre in which he began performing his own jokes. He had stage fright the first time only after shyness took for his character. And all this without their humor books and discs of recorded stories.
4. Preferred. In an article in Sight and sound Allen revealed his favorite movies, in no particular order. Write down: The Great Illusion of Jean Renoir, Citizen Kane of Orson Welles, Bicycle Thief of Vittorio De Sica, Rashomon Akira Kurosawa, The Seventh Seal of Ingmar Bergman, Paths of Glory of Stanley Kubrick, The 400 Blows of François Truffaut, 8½ of Federico Fellini, The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie of Luis Buñuel and Amarcord , also of Fellini.
5. Allenfobia. Allen suffers a long list of phobias and neuroses. Some of them are arachnophobia (fear of spiders), the entomofobia (insects), the heliofobia (the sun), the cynophobia (dogs), the altofobia (heights), the demofobia (crowds ), the carcinofobia (cancer), the thanatophobia (to death), mysophobia (germs), claustrophobia (enclosed spaces), agoraphobia (to open) and fear of the bathrooms, to the no name yet. No wonder then that Allen has been an ardent patient couch. Psychoanalyzed was for 37 years with the same psychologist, a practice abandoned by marrying Soon Yi Previn, his current wife
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