One of the leading scriptwriters, stand-up comedians and film-makers of his era,Woody Allen was born in Allen Stewart Konigsberg on 1st December 1935. Born and brought up in Brooklyn in New York, he loved reading comic books and watching movies and he proved to be a natural writer.(1) __________________________________________________________.When he was fifteen he took up the woodwind instrument and become an accomplished player,particularly of jazz music.Allen began selling jokes to newspaper columnists,(2) _______________________________________,and is now known as one of the greatest stand-up comedians ever.In the mid-sixties, Allen moved into the world of film-making, at first as a writer and actor.“What’s New, Pussycat?” came out in 1965.Woody Allen proved himself a productive writer as well as movie scriptwriter,he had two hit theatre shows on Broadway.He became a film director in the late sixties and produced some hugely successful film comedies, notably “Sleeper”,a comedy set in the future, “Bananas”, a comedy set in a Banana Republic,and “Love and Death”, his classic satire of Tolstoy’s “War and Peace”.(3) ________________________________________________.In 1977, his film, “Annie Hall”,was a huge success and won him praise from audiences and critics alike,and it won three Oscars, for director, screenplay and best picture.
