Among the leading lights in comedy films of the next decade were Woody Allen and Mel Brooks.

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Ironically, it is also in the Reeve films that Clark Kent's persona has the greatest resemblance to Woody Allen, though his conscious model was Cary Grant's character in Bringing up Baby.

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He is widely acclaimed as one of Hollywood's most innovative and influential film directors and he epitomized the group of filmmakers known as the New Hollywood, that includes Martin Scorsese, Terrence Malick, Robert Altman, Woody Allen, William Friedkin, Philip Kaufman and George Lucas, who emerged in the early 1970s with unconventional ideas that challenged contemporary film-making.

In 1989 Coppola teamed up with fellow Oscar-winning directors Martin Scorsese and Woody Allen for an anthology film called New York Stories.

The magazine publishes fiction by emerging writers alongside more recognizable names, such as Woody Allen, Margaret Atwood, Haruki Murakami, Alice Munro, Don DeLillo, Mary Gaitskill, and Edward Albee ; as well as essays, including ones from Mario Vargas Llosa, David Mamet, Steven Spielberg, and Salman Rushdie.

The effect was crude, however, compared to the bigger-budgeted Woody Allen film Zelig, which was already being filmed.

The 1983 Woody Allen film Zelig was an elaborate mix of real newsreel footage from the 1930s and fake footage mixed together with fake interviews with real actors playing themselves as well as actors playing roles to tell the story of the Allen character and presented as a documentary.

Contemporary filmmakers such as Woody Allen, Alejandro Jodorowsky, Pedro Almodovar, Tim Burton, Terry Gilliam, Emir Kusturica, David Lynch, Girish Kasaravalli, David Cronenberg, Martin Scorsese, and Juraj Jakubisko have cited Fellini's influence on their work.

8½ inspired among others: Mickey One ( Arthur Penn, 1965 ), Alex in Wonderland ( Paul Mazursky, 1970 ), Beware of a Holy Whore ( Rainer Werner Fassbinder, 1971 ), Day for Night ( François Truffaut, 1973 ), All That Jazz ( Bob Fosse, 1979 ), Stardust Memories ( Woody Allen, 1980 ), Sogni d ' oro ( Nanni Moretti, 1981 ), Parad Planet ( Vadim Abdrashitov, 1984 ), La Pelicula del rey ( Carlos Sorin, 1986 ), Living in Oblivion ( Tom DiCillo, 1995 ), 8½ Women ( Peter Greenaway, 1999 ), Falling Down ( Joel Schumacher, 1993 ), along with the successful Broadway musical, Nine ( Maury Yeston and Arthur Kopit, 1982 ).

She made her film debut in Oedipus Wrecks, a short film directed by Woody Allen for the anthology New York Stories ( 1989 ).

* Manhattan ( film ), a 1979 film directed by Woody Allen

Steven Spielberg initially refused to release a pan-and-scan version of Raiders of the Lost Ark but eventually gave in ( although he successfully ordered the letterboxed format for the home video releases of The Color Purple and Always ); Woody Allen refused altogether to release one of Manhattan, the letterbox version is therefore the only version available on VHS and DVD.

In 2002, she appeared in the film Hollywood Ending, directed by Woody Allen.

" In a review for The New York Times, Caryn James called When Harry Met Sally ... an " often funny but amazingly hollow film " that " romanticized lives of intelligent, successful, neurotic New Yorkers "; James characterized it as " the sitcom version of a Woody Allen film, full of amusing lines and scenes, all infused with an uncomfortable sense of déjà vu ".

The only " lookalike " used in the film was a Woody Allen impersonator who appears in two scenes when Mike is being chased by the Keystone Cops through the studio lot.

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* Sleeper, a Woody Allen movie, is set in 2173.

In the 1950s, his most important work in television involved writing for Red Buttons, Sid Caesar on Caesar's Hour, in Celeste Holm's Honestly, Celeste !, as well as with writers Mel Tolkin, Michael Stewart, Selma Diamond, Neil Simon, Mel Brooks, Carl Reiner, and ( on two Caesar specials ) Woody Allen.

Everyone Says I Love You is a 1996 American musical film that was written and directed by Woody Allen.

* Woody Allen ... Joe Berlin

* Recorded with the above under Coleman Hawkins six sides, which are said to be the first bebop recordings: " Woody ' n You ", February 16 and 22, 1944.

Then-team quarterback Rex Kern said, " Woody was out there on the Oval with the protesters, and he'd grab a bullhorn and tell the students to express their beliefs but not be destructive.

I don't know if it's really important, or intelligent even, when people say to me I'm a white Spike Lee, because they said to Spike Lee you're a black Woody Allen .< ref >

Woody Allen said in Conversations with Woody Allen that he wanted to cast Winona Ryder in the title role.

Former Ohio State head coach Woody Hayes said of Griffin, " He's a better young man than he is a football player, and he's the best football player I've ever seen.

Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times said the film " plays oddly like the loose ends and unused inspirations of other Woody Allen movies ; it's sort of a revue format in which a lot of famous people appear onscreen, perform in the sketch Woody devises for them and disappear.

At his last press conference as South Carolina's coach, Holtz said it was ironic that he and former Ohio State coach Woody Hayes both would be remembered for " getting into a fight at the Clemson game ".

In the San Francisco Chronicle, Leah Garchik said the film was " an inventive movie, imaginative and rich in detail " and added, " Woody Allen's incredible wit is at the heart of all that's wonderful in Mighty Aphrodite, and Woody Allen's incredible ego is at the core of its major flaw.

An August 1972 review by Time said that many of the film's ideas " sound good on paper " but that the " skits wind down rather than take off from the ideas "; the film includes " some broad, funny send-ups of other movies ( Fantastic Voyage, La notte ), and its fair share of memorably wacky lines " but that " overall it is just Woody marking time and being merely a little funnier ".

LaMarche said in an interview that he did two different takes, one where he impersonated Ramis, the other where he tried a more " Woody Allen " like approach, which he admitted did not suit the character's physicality.

Hanks is known for his roles in Apollo 13, Big, That Thing You Do !, The Green Mile, You've Got Mail, Sleepless in Seattle, Charlie Wilson's War, Catch Me If You Can, Forrest Gump, A League of Their Own, The Da Vinci Code, Angels & Demons and as the voice of Woody in the Toy Story movie franchise.

One newspaper critic remarked, " If filmmakers Woody Allen and Sam Peckinpah had collaborated on Jonny Quest, it would have come out a lot like this.

During the Vietnam War the first rock protest songs were heard, inspired by the songs of folk musicians such as Woody Guthrie and Bob Dylan, which ranged from abstract evocations of peace Peter, Paul and Mary's " If I Had a Hammer " to blunt anti-establishment diatribes Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young's " Ohio ".

II " and Woody Guthrie-influenced folk protest songs like " The New World " and " I Must Not Think Bad Thoughts.

* The song " Hello, I Must Be Going " also accompanies the opening credits of Woody Allen's Whatever Works ( 2009 )

She continued her tenure in the 1990s with Woody Allen's musical Everyone Says I Love You ( 1996 ) and reuniting with Steve Martin for the comedy The Out-of-Towners ( 1999 ), a remake of the 1970 Neil Simon hit.

Norman revealed that " I recorded " This Land Is Your Land " and " They Laid Jesus Christ in His Grave " with a guitar I borrowed that was Woody Guthrie's ; found broken in a field with a bird nest inside.

In 1996, she made her first feature film appearance as a singing " Chaquita Banana " in Woody Allen's Everyone Says I Love You.

On hearing the news Woody Guthrie wrote Lomax from California, " Too honest again, I suppose?

" I say " I may look like a gynecologist, an American ambassador's aide, or a lawyer, but I feel like Woody Allen .".

I would say that I got into jazz when I got into Woody Herman's band because that band was sorta jazz-oriented.

It was the first band I ever joined where the musicians carried records on the road ... Duke Ellington records ... Woody Herman discs Charlie Barnet V-Discs ... That's the first time I sort of got into jazz.

Having met Hayes at a reception following a Buckeye win over Iowa in 1957, Nixon recalled, " I wanted to talk about football and Woody wanted to talk about foreign policy.

Branagh cast the film without much regard for singing or dancing ability ; as in Woody Allen's Everyone Says I Love You, the film was meant to highlight energy and enthusiasm rather than smooth competence.

One category on the Revlon Category Board was " Jazz ", and within months of the premiere Columbia Records issued a 1955 album of various jazz artists under the tie-in title $ 64, 000 Jazz ( CL 777, also EP B-777 ), with the following tracks: " The Shrike " ( Pete Rugolo ), " Perdido " ( J. J. Johnson, Kai Winding ), " Laura " ( Erroll Garner ), " Honeysuckle Rose " ( Benny Goodman ), " Tawny " ( Woody Herman ), " One O ' Clock Jump " ( Harry James ), " How Hi the Fi " ( Buck Clayton ), " I'm Comin ', Virginia " ( Eddie Condon ), " A Fine Romance " ( Dave Brubeck, Paul Desmond ), " I Let A Song Go Out Of My Heart " ( Duke Ellington ) and " Ain't Misbehavin '" ( Louis Armstrong ).

In 1996, he went a different way, starring with Drew Barrymore in Woody Allen's musical comedy Everyone Says I Love You.

Critic Stephanie Zacharek wrote in her review " Rising star Samantha Morton shines in this charming, finely crafted film from Woody Allen " and that " Her performance is like nothing I ’ ve seen in recent years.

This was while I was holding forth with Woody Herman Orchestra.

Woody Guthrie wrote a song that mournfully stated: " I started out to write a song to the entire population / But no sooner than I got the words down, here come a brand new situation ".