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...drab fact, Woody Allen is the son of Martin Konigsberg, a Brooklyn butter-and-egg man. He is the father of Satchel O'Sullivan Farrow. He lives with, or across Central Park from, actress Mia Farrow. He was twice married and divorced, and kept significant company with another of his co-stars, Diane Keaton. You know this already, and you won't learn much more about his sleeping habits here. Eric Lax is no Kitty Kelley; he seems to believe, with Vladimir Nabokov, that "the best part of a writer's biography is not the record of his adventures...
Born in the East Prussian capital of Konigsberg (now Kaliningrad in the Soviet Union), Prager went to the U.S. as a student before embarking on a journalistic career that included long stints in Southeast Asia, where he covered the Vietnam War, and in the Middle East, where he was one of the first Western journalists, in 1975, to interview Saddam Hussein...
...person in charge of this complex operation is assistant managing editor Karsten Prager. Born in 1936 in the East Prussian capital of Konigsberg (now the Soviet city of Kaliningrad), he finished secondary school in Recklinghausen, West Germany. He made his first visit to the U.S. in 1952 as an exchange student in Bronson, Mich., and later graduated from the University of Michigan. Prager joined TIME in 1965 as a correspondent in the Hong Kong bureau and has worked in Vietnam, New York City, San Francisco, Beirut and Madrid. He oversaw the Germany issue and, in a story based on conversations...
Long before young Brooklyn-born Allen Konigsberg had sold his first joke or even dreamed of making a film, he was scouring record stores in search of New Orleans music. Woody first caught the bug at age 14, when he happened to hear a Saturday-morning radio show devoted to Bechet, one of the all-time great clarinet and soprano saxophone players. "I heard it, and it just sounded wonderful," he recalls. "It was sort of like an opening of the dike." With the facility for self-teaching that he would later demonstrate as writer and filmmaker, he laid...
Korn said that when he and Konigsberg worked asinvestment bankers, they noticed that the majorityof cover letters contained phrases about"analytical and interpersonal skills...