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Woody Allen Pays Tribute to Ex Diane Keaton After Her Death
Woody Allen reflected on his decades-long personal and creative bond with Diane Keaton, calling her a lasting inspiration and noting her iconic film legacy.
- Following Keaton's death on Oct. 11, Woody Allen, filmmaker, 89, published a tribute in The Free Press on Oct. 12.
- Allen first met Keaton during auditions for Play It Again, Sam, and she starred in eight films while becoming his creative sounding board.
- Keaton won the Best Actress Oscar for `Annie Hall`, and Allen credited her talents in acting, dancing, singing, writing, and photography.
- Costars and friends paid tribute, including Steve Martin, Kate Hudson and Goldie Hawn, while fans revisited the 1977 film with some expressing discomfort about its portrayals given allegations tied to Allen.
- Amid the tributes, unresolved questions about allegations and cause of death persist, as Allen has long denied abuse claims from Mia Farrow and Keaton's cause of death remains unknown.
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Three days after her unexpected death, the world and the entertainment industry are still trying to recover without Diane Keaton (Los Angeles, 1946). At 79, Woody Allen’s unmistakable actress and muse, who wrote the role of the successful Annie Hall thinking about her, died on Saturday, October 11, as a family spokesman told People magazine. A death that has not yet transcended the causes. “Without her, this is a sadder world,” the director who …
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Now director Woody Allen is speaking out for the first time since Diane Keaton's death. "Her face and laughter lit up every room she entered," Allen, 89, writes in an essay published in The Free Press.
Film director Woody Allen published on Monday a tribute to his former fetish partner and actress, Diane Keaton, whose death was announced on Saturday. “The planet has never known nor is it likely to know again a face and a smile that illuminates the spaces through which she was passing,” wrote the filmmaker who shared several years with Ketaon, on the site The Free Press. Faithful to his taste for self-criticism, Allen recounts his torments in f…
Director Woody Allen has publicly said goodbye to the late screen icon Diane Keaton. In an essay he describes her nature and her meaning in his life. He writes that only Freud knows why they separated as lovers.
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