Woody Allen in a sentence

Woody Allen says Trump has sparked 'best' satire in yearsOscar-winning director Woody Allen, who is known for his intellectual comedies, said Tuesday that President Donald Trump has generated the best satirical humor in the United States in years.

And not only that, Allen rewrote the script to suit his comedic persona, so it’s basically a Woody Allen movie with animated ants as the lead characters.

At the age of 17, he legally changed his name to Heywood Allen and later began to call himself Woody Allen.

Later, in Woody Allen 's comic paean to Bogart, Play It Again, Sam (1972), Bogart's ghost comes to the aid of Allen's bumbling character, a movie critic with women troubles whose "sex life has turned into the 'Petrified Forest'".

Woody Allen 's Play It Again, Sam (1972) appropriated Bogart's Casablanca persona as the fantasy mentor for Allen's nebbishy character, featuring actor Jerry Lacy in the role of Bogart.

He also took a turn at acting, with brief character roles in two films by Woody Allen, “Hannah and Her Sisters” (1986) and “Husbands and Wives” (1992).

In 1995, Schlossberg worked with three prominent Jews on one off-Broadway production: a set of one-act plays performed together each night, called “Death Defying Acts,” written by Woody Allen, David Mamet and Elaine May.

Such crushingly literal-minded dialogue would ring a death knell for any story, but Hool compounds it throughout with hammer-handed direction that makes the film unintentionally comical, a straight version of Woody Allen’s Bananas.

Talking turkey: If you get past the family debate about watching anything by Woody Allen, this one serves up an equal number of Thanksgiving dinners and Oscar wins: three.

The festival noted his award-winning acting career under the direction of filmmakers such as Brian De Palma, Oliver Stone, David Fincher, Terrence Malick, and Woody Allen as well as his later move into directing.

Timothée and Selena’s friendship goes way back to when they starred in the Woody Allen-directed rom-com A Rainy Day In New York together.

Always controversial, Woody Allen has published a memoir of his long career as an actor, writer director and comedian.

Directed by Woody Allen, boasts of an ensemble cast that also includes Steve Carell, Jesse Eisenberg, Parker Posey, Kristen Stewart, and Anna Camp.

Earlier in his address to a room full of Hollywood elite he suggested everyone should be "terrified" of journalist and son of Woody Allen Ronan Farrow.

In fact, even when friend and writer Bob Georgalas needled me, recalling Woody Allen’s warning that the proverbial glass was, indeed, half-full, but with poison, I seized on the quote’s humor as evidence of our hopeful resilience.

It’s been a tumultuous few years for Woody Allen, yet he’s back on the scene now with a tell-all book describing his version of events as he says they’ve played out over the years.

It's talky and low-key and very New York – think Woody Allen without any real-world baggage – and stays charming for the entirety of its run.

This actress has appeared in a lot of movies with Woody Allen.

Though it is not one of Woody Allen's more memorable films, Deconstructing Harry (1997), still has its merits.

When Penélope Cruz took home her Academy Award for best supporting actress in 2009 for Woody Allen’s romantic comedy “Vicky Cristina Barcelona,” it was the very first trophy awarded that night.