US EditionWoody Allen Says World 'Drearier' without Ex-Partner Diane Keaton
Woody Allen reflects on his decades-long friendship, romance, and creative collaboration with Diane Keaton, who starred in eight of his films and won a Best Actress Oscar.
- Woody Allen published a remembrance of Diane Keaton in The Free Press following her death on October 11 in California.
- They met long ago at a Morosco Theatre audition for Play It Again, Sam and were romantically involved by the Washington, D.C. opening, with Allen valuing Keaton's judgment on his work.
- In his essay, Allen recalled a Thanksgiving at Keaton's Orange County, California home where he played penny poker and cleared about 80 cents with her family, praising her face and laugh that illuminated any space.
- People quoted a source saying Allen is `extremely distraught and surprised and upset` and unaware of Keaton's declining health; Allen closed his essay noting `A few days ago the world was a place that included Diane Keaton`.
- As a long-term muse, Keaton inspired roles including Annie Hall, starring in eight of Allen's 50 films and winning the Oscar for Best Actress, despite #MeToo-era controversies she defended him.
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The world is dimmer, her wonderful laugh still rings in my mind, he wrote about the actress, among other things.
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Woody Allen says world 'drearier' without ex-partner Diane Keaton
Woody Allen fell in love with Diane Keaton as soon as he set eyes on her, but took a week to pluck up the courage to speak to the woman whose stellar career he would help to turbo charge.
The filmmaker Woody Allen remembers the day when his own sanity was questioned. It was after they hired a Diane Keaton “promising and incredible” for her play Play It Again, Sam. During the first week of rehearsals they didn’t address the word. “She was shy, I was shy, and when two shy people get together, things can get pretty boring,” wrote the American artist this Monday in The Free Press. “By chance, we took a break at the same time and ende…
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