Mere Anarchy
Features eighteen witty, wild and intelligent comic pieces. This book includes tales of a body double who, mistaken for the film's star, is kidnapped by outlaws; a pretentious novelist forced to work on the novelisation of a 'Three Stooges' film; and a nanny secretly writing an expose of her...
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Features eighteen witty, wild and intelligent comic pieces. This book includes tales of a body double who, mistaken for the film's star, is kidnapped by outlaws; a pretentious novelist forced to work on the novelisation of a 'Three Stooges' film; and a nanny secretly writing an expose of her Manhattan employers.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780091920326 (0091920329)
Publish date: June 5th 2008
Publisher: Ebury Press
Pages no: 176
Edition language: English
Category:
Humor,
Writing,
Essays,
Funny,
Comedy,
Literature,
American,
Philosophy,
Contemporary,
Americana,
Short Stories
Sometimes you see something that makes you smirk a bit and you think "There's a joke in there somewhere." Sometimes Woody Allen comes along and proves you wrong. "Nope, I've fully explored that one, wrote a whole piece on it, and published it. There wasn't really anything funny about it after all."
For a long time, Woody Allen has been one of my favorite movie directors. His movies, which many times show the absurdism of the life of normal people, have fascinated me and they are one reason why I have decided to seek an education in film. Browsing the database of the local library I found this ...