Playbill
June, 2007
Woody Allen's films consistently demonstrate that we are living in a world governed by the absurd. This month he uses the pen to lampoon Hollywood's humbling ways with This Nib for Hire. In this story from Allen's new collection, Mere Anarchy, an unproven writer weighs the benefits of an easy paycheck against the specter of losing literary credibility. "Show-business salaries are so inflated that next to a normal salary they're like a pashas or something," Allen has said. "It...
