Let's Hear It For Woody
December, 1991
Woody Allen is the survivor, by my count, of no fewer than 16 book-length studies, each one definitive, as well as critical essays in publications ranging from People through The New York Review of Books to the indispensable West Virginia University Philological Papers. He has, over the wasting years, been accused of "high school existentialism," of "a failure to transcend the values of John Wayne," of churning out "films that exemplify the inauthenticity and self-absorp...
