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Ghostwriters? (Allen anecdote) Fred Allen once had one of his radio show scripts returned with extensive editor...
Trouble With Age (Allen anecdote) "If somebody caught Fred [Allen] in an act of kindness, he ducked behind a scree...
Time Will Tell? (Allen anecdote) Gracie Allen - who played the scatterbrained wife in the famed Burns & Allen com...
George Burned? (Allen anecdote) "Gracie didn't marry me because I was a sex symbol," George Burns declared after...
Woody Allen Oscar Speech (Allen anecdote) During the Academy Awards in 2002, Woody Allen explained why he had At the 2002 ...
Woody Allen Casting Call (Allen anecdote) "The Woody Allen casting call is something of a legend in the business. It is he...
Staying Married and Loving It (Allen anecdote) In 1997, Patricia Allen and Sandra Harmon published their ...
Allen Covert: Harry the Chimp (Covert anecdote) For his role as Alex in Grandma's Boy (2006), Allen Covert worked with a ...
Fred Allen: Scary Thought (Allen anecdote) Fred Allen once spotted a haggard, unkempt, long-haired cellist in the orchestra...
Fred Allen: Five Thousand Churches (Allen anecdote) Jack Parr idolized the comedian Fred Allen. At their first meeting, the "Tonight...
Meat Generation? (Ginsberg anecdote) "At a poetry conference attended by Howard Moss, an elderly poet just back from ...
Kiss This! (Lynn [Allen] anecdote) After her arrest and conviction by the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) for tax ev...
Led Handshake? (Dylan anecdote) Famed Led Zeppelin manager Peter Grant once introduced himself to Bob Dylan at a...
Albert Brooks & the Family Stone (Brooks anecdote) "I opened for Sly and the Family Stone in '73," Albert Brooks once recalled of h...
Date with Destiny? (Dulles anecdote) On April 11, 1917, Soviet leader Vladimir Ilyich Lenin called the U.S. consul in...
Ash and Burn? (Allen anecdote) As a broadcaster, Mel Allen discovered first-hand the perils of live television ...
Too Soon? (Allen anecdote) In 2001, after some forty years, Woody Allen announced that he had stopped seein...
Immortal Words (Allen anecdote) Woody Allen was once asked whether he liked the idea of living on on the silver ...
Mon Dieu! (Allen anecdote) Perhaps surprisingly, a survey of French women once revealed that the man to who...
Woody Boner (Allen anecdote) One day in 1992 Mia Farrow was horrified to learn that Woody Allen (her partner ...
Journalist's Torment (Allen-Mills anecdote) "The Mexican earthquake proved to be a 'journalist's torment' - the words of my ...
Spalding Gray: Life in North Haven (Gray anecdote) Spalding Gray's move from his beloved Sag Harbor, New York (to North Haven, Conn...
Kelsey Grammer: What's Next (Grammer anecdote) In January 2004, Kelsey Grammer was asked what was "next" for him after the hit ...
Benedict Allen: Mono the Monkey (Allen anecdote) Benedict Allen once encountered a group of friendly Matses Indians while trekkin...
H. Allen Smith: Dedication Page (Smith anecdote) "The humorist H. Allen Smith was a devotee of dedicatese. In one of his books th...
Bullets Over Broadway (Allen anecdote) Diane Wiest, who once described Woody Allen's look of displeasure as "a mild and...
Woody Allen: Burgled (Allen anecdote) One day, Woody Allen was dismayed to discover that his Manhattan apartment had b...
Phobia (Allen anecdote) Woody Allen's neuroses are a thing of legend. Such was his claustrophobia that h...
4-Ply Fly Guy? (Neuharth anecdote) When Allen Neuharth, the chairman of Gannett (publisher of USA Today), to...
Saved by the Bell (Allen anecdote) According to Kenneth Branagh, whenever anyone was annoying Woody Allen on the se...
Waiting, Are They? (Allen anecdote) While examining Ethan Allen on his deathbed, the frontiersman's doctor was led t...
Born to Rock (Lynn [Allen] anecdote) Ginger Lynn once joined a number of her colleagues to produce a compilation of p...
Ginsberg Goodbye (Ginsberg anecdote) At the Edinburgh Literary Festival in 2001, author Ken Kesey revealed a curious ...
Forever Young (Dylan anecdote) Bob Dylan, the genius behind the song "Forever Young," once played a concert for...
Tim Allen's Divorce (Allen anecdote) In November 1999, Tim Allen's wife Laura Diebel filed for divorce after more tha...
Hard Childhood (Allen anecdote) Born Timothy Allen Dick, Tim Allen endured years of taunts about his surname gro...
Woody Walk? (Allen anecdote) Jay Leno once read that Woody Allen made a practice of taking his temperature ev...
Hollywood Ending (Allen anecdote) Woody Allen once scribbled the concept for a feature film on the back of a match...
Woody: Keepin' it Real (Allen anecdote) Despite having received a dozen Oscar nominations, Woody Allen did not make an a...
Boston (Allen anecdote) "I have just returned from Boston," Fred Allen once declared. "It is the only th...
Odd Sermon? (Allen anecdote) One Sunday, Ethan Allen and several colleagues attended a sermon delivered by a ...
Occupational Hazard (Allen anecdote) "Before we shot that kissing scene in The Front," Andrea Marcovicci once ...
Poetic Soul (Ginsberg anecdote) As Allen Ginsberg left his lodgings at Columbia University for the very last tim...
Friction (Allen anecdote) Because Woody Allen refused to stay overnight at Mia Farrow's apartment, she spe...
Young Bob Dylan (Dylan anecdote) In 1963, Robert Allen Zimmerman legally changed his name to Bob Dylan as a tribu...
Body Snatcher (Dylan anecdote) While working with Ron Wood at a Los Angeles recording studio one day, Bob Dylan...
Hollywood Screenwriter (Brooks anecdote) Screenwriters, as Albert Brooks quickly learned, have long been the lowest membe...
Sixth Sense? (Grammer anecdote) At a live rehearsal of "In-Laws" one day in 2002, Kelsey Grammer, the show's pro...
Kelsey Grammer: Getup & Go? (Grammer anecdote) "Kelsey Grammer took a spill on a moped while in Ireland filming his latest movi...
Dick Allen (Allen anecdote) Philadelphia Phillies slugger Dick Allen was a danger on and off the field. "I w...
Bob Dylan: Rainy Day Women #12 and 35 (Dylan anecdote) Bob Dylan once got his entire band drunk and stoned before making them switch in...
Woody Allen: Offensive Threat? (Allen anecdote) Though Woody Allen and Billy Crystal once played basketball together (and once d...
Albert Brooks: Wallflower at the Orgy (Brooks anecdote) Albert Brooks, whose observational humor once led him to be dubbed the "West Coa...
Bob Dylan: Songwriter (Dylan anecdote) John Mellencamp: "I once asked Bob, as we stood in my art studio, in Bloomington...
Electricity can be Dangerous (Allen anecdote) "Electricity can be dangerous," Tim Allen once remarked. "My nephew tried to sti...
Tim Allen: Explosive Childhood (Allen anecdote) "We used to have explosives, when we were kids," Tim Allen once recalled of his ...
Tim Allen: Air Rifle (Allen anecdote) "I sold seeds door to door and I got one of those Daisy pumps [air rifles]," Tim...
Albert Brooks: Babe Ruth Letter (Brooks anecdote) "Above the desk in [Albert Brooks's] office, there hangs a framed letter. Few vi...
Anne Rice (Rice anecdote) One day in 1972, Anne Rice had an eerie dream in which her five-year-old daughte...
Ethan Allen's Wife (Allen anecdote) When Ethan Allen's notoriously ill-tempered first wife passed away, a local man ...
Woody Allen Interview (Allen anecdote) During an interview with Nigel Farndale one day, Woody Allen waxed philosophical...
Annie Hall (Allen anecdote) While editing a murder mystery in 1977, Woody Allen realized that all of the bes...
Soon-Yi Effect (Allen anecdote) Some time after Mia Farrow came across several pornographic Polaroids which Wood...
Woody Panned (Allen anecdote) Woody Allen, who once claimed to hate many of his films (including ...
Woody (Allen anecdote) "[Woody Allen] is unique among contemporary American film-makers in having devel...
Woody Allen & Diane Keaton (Allen anecdote) Woody Allen and Diane Keaton remained close even after their split. Allen, who o...
Woody Allen: Interesting Question (Allen anecdote) "Love is the answer," Woody Allen once declared, "but while you're waiting for t...
Dulles Wrong? (Dulles anecdote) CIA director John Foster Dulles was once asked whether he had ever been wrong. "...
Jeffrey Who? (Allen anecdote) One evening during Herbert Allen's exclusive annual Sun Valley retreat for media...
Welcome to Moronia (Allen anecdote) Los Angeles in the middle of the 20th century was considered by many New Yorkers...
Allen Covert: Lazy (Covert anecdote) Shortly after writing and starring in Grandma's Boy (2006), Allen Covert ...
Spalding Gray: Boundary Problem (Gray anecdote) "Something that led me to [Buddhism] was the idea of interconnection," Spalding ...
Ntllgbl? (Dylan anecdote) Bob Dylan, though a musical icon, was not noted for his intelligible singing voi...
Fishing Companion (Allen anecdote) One summer, Mississippi Congressman "Private John" Allen and several of his coll...
Fred Allen: Comedy Act (Allen anecdote) Fred Allen once developed a comedy act in which he played the worst juggler in t...
Kelsey Grammer: Thanksgiving (Grammer anecdote) "Thanksgiving in my house was always fight night," Kelsey Grammer once recalled....
Woody Allen Look-Alike (Allen anecdote) "Woody Allen was seen as a villain when he won $425,000 in 1986 in a lawsuit aga...
Monocle (Allen anecdote) "When Georgie Jessel read, he used a monocle," Joey Allen once recalled. "'I'd r...
Ticonderoga (Allen anecdote) In a surprise attack on the morning of May 10, 1775, a small force led by Ethan ...
Typical Woody (Allen anecdote) Before Woody Allen's first marriage (to Helen Rosen), some of his friends, uncon...
Neurotic Woody (Allen anecdote) Throughout his long relationship with Mia Farrow, Woody Allen insisted on keepin...
Gilded Garter (Dylan anecdote) Bob Dylan was once so hard up for cash that he performed at a Colorado strip clu...
Shortcut (Allen anecdote) Woody Allen once pointed out that his characters always had short names. short n...
Addams Family & Uncle Fester (Lloyd anecdote) One day as work on Barry Sonnenfeld's The Addams Family (1991) drew to an...
Albert Brooks (Brooks anecdote) It is not entirely surprising that the second son of the legendary radio comedia...
Tim Allen: Emmy Blooper (Allen anecdote) In the early 1990s, Tim Allen bitterly complained that he was not receiving the ...
Publishing History (Lane anecdote) After spending a weekend with Agatha Christie and her husband in Devon one day, ...
Rick Allen (Allen anecdote) "When [Def Leppard drummer] Rick Allen lost his left arm after a car accident on...
Dylan's Daddy (Dylan anecdote) Accepting a Grammy Award for Lifetime Achievement in 1991, Bob Dylan leaned into...
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