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Woody Allen Encyclopedia: Almost Everything You Wanted to Know About the Woodster but Were Afraid to Ask
Woody Allen Almost Everything You Wanted to Know About the Woodster but Were Afraid to Ask [Nov 01, 1991] Altman, Mark A.
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First published January 1, 1990
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August 15, 2025
A zine, rather than an encyclopaedia.
Mark A. Altman made a decent living in the 1990s with a range of TV tie-in books, fiction and non fiction: Star Trek, Twin Peaks, you name it. It was an era when books were cheaper than ever before. In those days when the World Wide Web was still in its Neolithic stages, with people aware of the number of nerds out there on any given subject, but still struggling to connect with them, there was a great interest in tie-in merchandise of this type.
In this case, this 'Encyclopedia' is a strange mélange of fact and fiction. It features a range of essays and miscellaneous pieces, including some odd 'creative' sections, such a comic interlude of suggested sequels to Woody films, complete with synopses. (Was anyone asking for that?) In the manner of a good zine, it's also messily printed, with spelling errors and some odd page justifications throughout. This isn't a disaster, and I'm sure it gave a couple of hours' amusement to any Woody fan during the Golden Age of the early 1990s. But it's not actually doing anything. Altman refers on the opening page to the "cottage industry" of books about Woody, and indeed there are so many that I feel comfortable not recommending this one.
Mark A. Altman made a decent living in the 1990s with a range of TV tie-in books, fiction and non fiction: Star Trek, Twin Peaks, you name it. It was an era when books were cheaper than ever before. In those days when the World Wide Web was still in its Neolithic stages, with people aware of the number of nerds out there on any given subject, but still struggling to connect with them, there was a great interest in tie-in merchandise of this type.
In this case, this 'Encyclopedia' is a strange mélange of fact and fiction. It features a range of essays and miscellaneous pieces, including some odd 'creative' sections, such a comic interlude of suggested sequels to Woody films, complete with synopses. (Was anyone asking for that?) In the manner of a good zine, it's also messily printed, with spelling errors and some odd page justifications throughout. This isn't a disaster, and I'm sure it gave a couple of hours' amusement to any Woody fan during the Golden Age of the early 1990s. But it's not actually doing anything. Altman refers on the opening page to the "cottage industry" of books about Woody, and indeed there are so many that I feel comfortable not recommending this one.
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