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Woody Allen<\/a> has written an essay in tribute to his friend and ex-partner, Diane Keaton<\/a>, in the Free Press<\/a>. News of Keaton\u2019s death came suddenly on October 11<\/a>, and tributes to the actor have been pouring in from people like Goldie Hawn, Steve Martin, and Jane Fonda<\/a>. In his essay, Allen writes about his amazement that \u201cthis beautiful yokel went on to become an award-winning actress and sophisticated fashion icon.\u201d He also calls her \u201ca hick, a rube, a hayseed,\u201d and \u201cIf Huckleberry Finn was a gorgeous young woman.\u201d<\/p>\n Allen\u2019s enduring affection for Keaton is as evident on the page as his insistence that Los Angeles (where Keaton was born and raised) is a hick town. The two met when staging his play, Play It Again Sam. At first, the two were too shy to connect, but over one lunch their mutual defenses melted. \u201cWhen we first met, I thought she was so charming, so beautiful, so magical, that I questioned my sanity. I thought: Was it possible to fall in love so quickly?\u201d he writes.<\/p>\n Allen describes their relationship, including a Thanksgiving where he lost poker to her family, before their (to him) inexplicable breakup. \u201cWe had a few great personal years together and finally we both moved on, and why we parted only God and Freud might be able to figure out,\u201d Allen says. \u201cShe went on to date\u00a0a number of exciting men, all of them more fascinating than I was.\u201d Even after their relationship ended, Allen says he valued her friendship and artistic judgement. \u201cFor all her shyness and self-effacing personality, she was totally secure in her own aesthetic judgment,\u201d he writes. \u201cWhether she was criticizing a movie of mine or a play of Shakespeare\u2019s, she held both to the same standard.\u201d<\/p>\n Related<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Woody Allen has written an essay in tribute to his friend and ex-partner, Diane Keaton, in the Free…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":72429,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[458,727,49336,146,85,46,397,51554,33078],"class_list":["post-72428","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-celebrity","tag-diane-keaton","tag-entertainment","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-movies","tag-tributes","tag-woody-allen"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72428","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72428"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72428\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/72429"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72428"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72428"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72428"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}