Diane Keaton

In 1969, Woody Allen cast her in his play Play It Again, Sam, which won her a Tony Award as Featured Dramatic Actress. During her run in the play, Hollywood came calling and Keaton made her film debut in 1970 in the film Lovers and Other Strangers. Her big break came when she was cast in Francis Ford Coppola's blockbuster The Godfather (1972) (she also appeared in the sequel). Around this time, she became romantically involved with Woody Allen and has played eccentric characters in several of his comic films including See also:

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See also: 1976 in film 1977 1978 in film 1970s in film years in film film 1977 in film - Events. In the Academy Awards, Peter Finch, Faye Dunaway and Beatrice Straight win Best Actor and Actress and Supporting Actress awards for Network. Rocky picks up an Academy Award for Best Picture and All The President's Men wins Jason Robards the Supporting Actor and an Art Direction for George Jenkins and George Gaines. May 25 - ...

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1946 (MCMXLVI) was a common year starting on Tuesday. (see link for calendar) 1946 - Events. 1946 - January. January 2 - Unable to resume his rule over Albania after World War II, King Zog abdicated but retained his claim to the throne. January 4 - Theodore Schurch becomes the last person to be executed for offences committed under the Treachery Act of 1940 January 7 - Allied recognize Austrian republic with 1937 borders - the country is divided in ...

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Woody Allen, (born Allen Stewart Königsberg on December 1, 1935), is an American film director, screenwriter, stand up comic, playwright, short story writer, and musician whose large body of work and cerebral style have made him one of the most widely respected and prolific filmmakers in the modern era. He writes and directs his own movies and has acted in many of them as well. Allen draws heavily on literature, philosophy, European cinema and most importantly, New York City, where he was born and in which he has lived all his ...

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Annie Hall is a 1977 romantic comedy film directed by Woody Allen from a script he co-wrote with Marshall Brickman. Allen's working title for the film was Anhedonia, but this was considered unmarketable. Brickman's suggested alternative, It Had to Be Jew, was considered even less marketable, and ultimately Annie Hall was settled upon as the release title. Because of biographical similarities with Alvy, including Allen's previous relationship with co-star Diane Keaton (real name Diane Hall), Annie HallIncluding:

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A baby boom is any period of greatly increased birth rate within temporal and usually geographical bounds. Many such instances have been recorded in human history and are often caused by uplifting factors such as good harvests, victories in sport or war, or just due to superstition. Persons born during this time are often called baby boomers. Recent baby boom periods include: Year 2000 baby boom (2000) Echo baby boom (1978 - 1992) Post-WW2 baby boom (1945 - 1964) Baby Boom is also the title of a 1987 movie starring Diane Keaton and of a subsequent TV sho ...

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Wallace Shawn (born November 12, 1943) is an American actor and writer. Ubiquitous on film and television, where he is usually cast in comic roles, he has pursued a parallel career as a playwright whose work is often dark, politically charged and controversial. Wallace Shawn - Biography. Shawn was born in New York City, where he still lives. He is the son of William Shawn, longtime editor of The New Yorker, and journalist Cecille Lyon Shawn; his brother Allen is a composer. Shawn graduated wit ...

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The concept of a homunculus (Latin for "little man", sometimes spelled "homonculus") is often used to illustrate the functioning of a system. In the scientific sense of an unknowable prime actor, it can be viewed as an entity or agent. The term appears to have been first used by the alchemist Paracelsus. He once claimed that he had created a false human being that he referred to as the homunculus. The creature was to have stood no more than 12 inches tall, and did the work usually associated with a golem. However, after a short ...

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Belinda Carlisle (born Belinda Jo Kerzeski Carlisle on August 17, 1958 in Hollywood, California) is the lead vocalist for the rock & roll band The Go-Go's and also a solo artist. Carlisle's first venture into music was as the drummer for the punk band The Germs, under the name Dottie Danger. Soon after leaving this band she joined The Go-Go's. After the initial breakup of The Go-Go's in 1985 (allegedly due to hedonism and drug abuse by Carlisle and some of the other band members), Carlisle cleaned herself up and emba ...

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Henry Goro Beaty (born March 30, 1937 in Richmond, Virginia), now known as Warren Beatty, is an American actor, producer, screenwriter, and director. He long had a reputation as a womanizer and playboy, but that reputation has faded since his 1992 marriage. The Academy Awards honored him with the Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award in 2000, presented by his close friend Jack Nicholson, while in 2004 he received Kennedy Center Honor. Beatty was born to an American father whose family had lived in Virginia for several centur ...

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Ronald Walken (born March 31, 1943), known professionally as Christopher Walken, is an American film, television, and theatre actor best known for playing menacing or psychologically damaged characters, but has occasionally used that image for comedic effect. He was born in Queens, New York to a German father and Scottish-born mother. Walken has been married to casting director Georgianne Walken since 1969. Christopher Walken - Career. Walken initially trained as a dancer in musical theatre before mo ...

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This is a list of film-related events in 1991. 1990 in film 1991 in film 1992 in film 1990 in home video 1991 in home video 1992 in home video 1990 in television 1991 in television 1992 in television 1991 in film - Events. April 28 - Bonnie Raitt marries actor Michael Noonan O'Keefe in New York Tiny Toon Adventures: How I Spent My Vacation< ...

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The Academy Award for Best Actress is one of the awards given to people working in the motion picture industry by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences; nominations are made by Academy members who are actors and actresses. The winners are chosen by the Academy membership as a whole. Following the Academy's practice, the films below are listed by release year: for example, the Oscar for "Best Actress in 1999" was announced during the award ceremony he ...

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A Midsummer Night's Sex Comedy is a 1982 film written and directed by Woody Allen. The plot revolves around a weekend party bringing together six people. It's loosely based on Ingmar Bergman's Smiles of a Summer Night. Notable for being the first of thirteen movies that Allen would make starring Mia Farrow. Farrow's role was originally written for another famous Allen lead actress Diane Keaton, but she couldn't take the part because she was busy promoting her film Reds preparing for to shoot another film

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During the ceremony, Vanessa Redgrave won the Best Supporting Actress award for Julia, and gave a controversial acceptance speech proclaiming her pro-Palestinian views. Redgrave: "My dear colleagues, I thank you very much for this tribute to my work. I think that Jane Fonda, and I have done the best work of our lives and I think this is in part due to our director, Fred Zinnemann. [Audience applause.] And I also think it's in part because we believed and we believe in what we were expressing--tw ...

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1990s to present: 2005 - Rachel McAdams (The Notebook), Naomi Watts (King Kong) 2004 - Lindsay Lohan (Mean Girls) 2003 - Scarlett Johansson (Lost in Translation), Paris Hilton (The Simple Life) 2002 - Maggie Gyllenhaal (Secretary), Keira Knightley (Bend It Like Beckham) 2001 - Kirsten Dunst (Bring It On) 2000 - Kate Hudson (Almost Famous), Lucy Liu (Shanghai Noon) 1999 - Angelina Jolie (Girl, Interrupted ...

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It girl, It girl - List of women widely considered to be the Hollywood It girl of their respective years, It girl - External link

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Homunculus - Representations of the homunculus. In the classic horror film Bride of Frankenstein, Dr. Frankenstein's old teacher, Dr. Praetorius, shows him his own creations, a series of miniature humanoids kept in specimen jars, including a bishop, a king, a queen, a ballerina, a mermaid, and a devil. These are clearly intended to be forms of homunculi. In his source study of Mary Shelley's original novel upon which the film was based, Prof. Radu Florescu notes that her father, William Godwin was quite fa ...

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The original play and the movie follow the same lines: Allen Felix (played by Allen) has just been through a messy divorce. His two friends, Linda (Diane Keaton) and Dick (Tony Roberts), attempt to convince him to go out with women again. He agrees, and throughout the film, he claims to be receiving dating advice from none other than Humphrey Bogart. As the film goes on we see that, when it comes to women, Allen puts on a false mask, a facade. He attempts to become sexy and sophisticated, only to end up ruining his chances by being too nervous. Event ...

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Play It Again Sam, Play It Again Sam - Summary Spoiler warning, Play It Again Sam - Trivia

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Streep has received countless awards, including a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame—all of which can be seen at numerous sites, including her page at the Internet Movie Database (link below). Summarized below are her awards from the best recognized institutions. Awards: 1978 - Emmy for best actress in a mini-series, in Holocaust 1980 - Golden Globe for best supporting actress, in Kramer vs. Kramer 1980 - Academy Award for best supporting actress, in Kramer vs. Kramer < ...

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Duvall was born in San Diego, California to parents of French and English descent. He grew up in a military family, living for a time in Annapolis, Maryland near the United States Naval Academy. He studied acting at The Neighborhood Playhouse School of Theatre in New York under Sanford Meisner. He is close friends with Dustin Hoffman and Gene Hackman, both of whom he's known since their struggling actor days. Duvall has been married three times: Barbara Benjamin (1964 - 1975) Gail Youngs (1982 - 1986) Sharon Brophy (1991 - 1996)

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