A trove of Woody Allen's personal archives, which have been stored at Princeton University since 1980, have been fully read for the first time, and it is filled with musings about men falling for teenage girls.
According to the Washington Post, the archive is 56 boxes of 57 years of Allen's scrawlings, drafts and screenplays, and, according to Princeton, no one has ever read the Allen files in full until now.
One of the more lurid drafts is a script written by Allen, in which the eponymous lead male is a part-time porn director, titled 'The Filmmaker.'
The script, written in the 60s or 70s has the Allen character becoming obsessed with a much younger, schizophrenic woman named Jennifer. He ultimately leaves his wife for her.
The freelance author, Richard Morgan, who digested the full work of scrawlings by Allen says: 'From the very beginning to the very end, Allen, quite simply, drips with repetitious misogyny.'
The freelance author, Richard Morgan, who digested the full work of scrawlings by Allen says: 'From the very beginning to the very end, Allen, quite simply, drips with repetitious misogyny.'
Allen writes: 'Of all the famous men who ever lived, the one I would most like to have been was Socrates. Not just because he was a great thinker, because I have been known to have some reasonably profound insights myself, although mine invariably revolve around two eighteen year old cocktail waitresses and some rope handcuffs.'
And in yet another draft, titled 'My Speech to the Graduates,' he bemoans that 'science has failed us. True, it has conquered many diseases, broken the genetic code, and even placed human beings on the Moon. And yet when a man of eighty is left in a room with two eighteen year old cocktail waitresses, nothing happens.'
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A trove of Woody Allen's personal archives, which have been stored at Princeton University since 1980, have been fully read for the first time, and it is filled with musings about men falling for teenage girls.
According to the Washington Post, the archive is 56 boxes of 57 years of Allen's scrawlings, drafts and screenplays, and, according to Princeton, no one has ever read the Allen files in full until now.
One of the more lurid drafts is a script written by Allen, in which the eponymous lead male is a part-time porn director, titled 'The Filmmaker.'
The script, written in the 60s or 70s has the Allen character becoming obsessed with a much younger, schizophrenic woman named Jennifer. He ultimately leaves his wife for her.
The freelance author, Richard Morgan, who digested the full work of scrawlings by Allen says: 'From the very beginning to the very end, Allen, quite simply, drips with repetitious misogyny.'
The freelance author, Richard Morgan, who digested the full work of scrawlings by Allen says: 'From the very beginning to the very end, Allen, quite simply, drips with repetitious misogyny.'
Allen writes: 'Of all the famous men who ever lived, the one I would most like to have been was Socrates. Not just because he was a great thinker, because I have been known to have some reasonably profound insights myself, although mine invariably revolve around two eighteen year old cocktail waitresses and some rope handcuffs.'
And in yet another draft, titled 'My Speech to the Graduates,' he bemoans that 'science has failed us. True, it has conquered many diseases, broken the genetic code, and even placed human beings on the Moon. And yet when a man of eighty is left in a room with two eighteen year old cocktail waitresses, nothing happens.'
Nothing happens? It seems he never has enough.