Word: allenated
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Keaton worried, talked with her parents, talked with her analyst. (She has seen a psychiatrist several days a week, most weeks, for five years. She began on the advice of Allen, who has been in analysis, he says, for 20 years.) She decided to go ahead...
...rests on the gamble of Goodbar. Keaton's career, Brooks' bank account and, to a certain degree, the immediate future of serious films about women. Meanwhile, Keaton is back in Manhattan, renewing acquaintances with her cats and her analyst, thinking lazily about changing apartments, studying a new Woody Allen script. The film has no title yet, but rehearsals begin next week. Allen himself will direct the picture, but not act in it. He reports with much satisfaction that the film is very gloomy, in no sense a comedy, and that Keaton's role is "far more heavy and tortured...
Never mind whether Scarlett and Rhett ever got together again. What the world wants to know is whether Annie Hall and Alvy Singer will manage to get their inadequacies synchronized and live together anxiously ever after. The answer, neurosis fans, is yes! Woody Allen and Diane Keaton, who gave the '70s a love story to believe in, green and warty and sour as a good dill pickle, live together on Manhattan's East Side, in apartments ten blocks apart...
Visit her flat, a half-furnished encampment that looks as if someone got a great bargain in white paint, and Allen is on the phone. Interview Allen in his penthouse, a comfortable layout that might belong to a literate lawyer, and Keaton has just called. Anxieties have gnawed dangerously at confidence during the night, and repairs must be made. "I'm a guilt-ridden, anhedonic type," says Allen, whose conversation can sound like a Woody Allen movie without the jokes. He lives with despair, gloomily believing that his films "are all strikeouts. None of them achieved what...
...turn. Says Allen, "She is always afraid that she is never going to work again. She worries that she hasn't earned her success." Keaton is going to cut her first record in a few months, and, Allen predicts, "she will have no problem whatsoever performing. But she worries that she is not an interesting singer. Now she is worried about her role in my new film and worried that when she is older she will be one of those actresses who haven't aged well." He tells her she is great...