Word: allene
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Woody Allen came from a Jewish family in Brooklyn; Diane Keaton's parents are Methodists who live in Southern California. She lacks the spooky older brother of Annie Hall (she has a younger brother, unspooky, and two younger sisters). But there is general agreement that the dinner scene, in which Alvy imagines that "Grammy Hall" sees him with yarmulke, full beard, earlocks and frock coat, bears some resemblance to truth...
There is a Grammy Hall, in her 80s, who is still trying to fix Diane up with nice young men from her neighborhood in Los Angeles. She thinks the film was very funny and says, "That Woody Allen, he's something! I can't make head or tail out of half of what he says." She, not Diane, appears to be the ranking family cutup; when Diane's sister Dorrie, 24, had to write a genealogical essay in the manner of Roots for college, Grammy Hall obligingly gave phony details about ancestors unto the fifth generation...
Keaton and Woody Allen met cute, as their trade phrases it. Her job in Hair was as understudy to the star, Lynn Kellogg, and when Kellogg left the production, Keaton took over. Naturally, she was feeling insecure. "I was living alone on the West Side, in a one-room apartment with the bathroom out in the hallway and the bathtub in the kitchen, right? I didn't feel like I had arrived with Hair. That play wasn't much for individual performances." When she heard about tryouts for Play It Again, Sam, she invited herself...
Naturally, Allen was feeling insecure. "She was a Broadway star, and who was I? A cabaret comedian who had never even been on a stage before." She worried that she was too tall. He worried that he was too short. They took off their shoes and measured, back to back. She, at 5 ft. 7 in., was three-quarters of an inch taller. Close enough...
What brought this fountain of rarefied nonsense to Mr. Goodbar? Keaton's name still brings an "Oh. yeah, Woody Allen's girl" reaction from filmgoers, and she and Allen have known for some time that she must establish herself separately. Her first venture, during a dry period between the stage and film versions of Play It Again, Sam, was a series of three memorably tacky TV commercials, in which she played a housewife who jogged around her kitchen in a track suit, holding up a can of Hour After Hour deodorant and yelling, "This stuff is great...