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Show Woody Allen on films, family and fatherhood LONDON (AP) Woody Allen, the actor and director who is about to become a first-tim- e father, discussed his films and hopes for a baby girl in a TV interview with the British J 6 row, his longtime companion, are expecting. No due date has been announced. The normally reclusive Allen, whose honors include a double win of Academy Awards in 1978 for writing and il i t - r x :' swipes for his earliest films. He said the swinging 1965 sex comedy "What's New, Pussycat?" was an "undeserved" financial success. His 1969 "Take the Money and Run," with Allen as the bumbling criminal Virgil Starkwell, suffered from "gags of any sort, of any kind." His 1971 "Bananas," in which Allen played a hypochondriac ensnared in a Latin American uprising, was marred by ;"an infantile type of funniness," Even "Manhattan," his sophisticated 1979 film about a city and the emotional colors of the people who inhabit it, got its knocks. "What carries you through 'Manhattan' for me is more the style than anything else," he said. "I would do 'Manhattan' differently now. It's not a film I wouldn't do today, but I would do it differently." black-and-whi- - : te Allen emphasized his love for weighty material and his desire to be taken seriously, despite his fans' insistence 1980 film "StarMemories" that he make funnier movies. "I don't mean to downgrade I think it's a woncomedy but I put the derful thing dust a higher plane, myself. I think my films have been good to the degree that I could make them more serious," said Allen, adding that he was drawn to tragic other (drama) on playwrights like August Strind-ber- g and Eugene O'Neill and preferred Shakespeare's dramas to his comedies. He said "Hannah and Her Sisters," his 1986 critical and financial success, was "more 'up' and optimistic than I had intended, and consequently was very popular." But the optimism exacted a price: "It's only optimistic in the sections (where) I failed," he said. He said his favorite film was "The Purple Rose of Cairo," in which Mia Farrow plays a Milquetoast-typ- woman e se- duced by a screen actor who steps out of a movie to woo her. "The object of the movie was very simply to show that Westwood High sophomore Mike Collins was host for one of the parties about two months ago. He said he invited 10 friends, but about 200 people showed up. The family's phone was ruined in the microwave and someone ate their pet tropical fish. "I think the cops overemphasize it a little but there is definitely a problem," the with us since the beginning of d. said Friday. to fair flock fad inventors - Hula-Hoo- p and a couple million satirized in his ty. time and will be with us to the end of time," Abbate said. "This is more often than not the result of irresponsible parents, out all night or until the late morning hours or away for the bucks in the process. "Logic doesn't make it," inventor Bob Pagani, the man behind the Dobermask, said in summing up Friday's "Fad Fair III." "In America, logic doesn't sell." Pagani and the other In a recent interview with British Broadcasting Corp., actor Woody Allen discussed his films and his personal life. hosted previous rowdy parties. Abbate has had to call for help from state police and police in a nearby communi- teen-ager- s. Abbate said damage to trashed homes ranges from goals: finding the next "I don't feel I've made a great film yet in my life," Allen said, describing his standard as classics like Vittorio de Sica's "The Bicycle Thief" and Jean Renoir's "La Grande ; Abbate said he blames parents more than "Teen drinking has been nental conversation. Their lege of Art. exhibitors fervently follow that credo. The group, brought together by the legendary creator of the Wacky Wallwalker, Ken "Dr. Fad" Hakuta, offered the discerning shopper: The Fruck. A geneticist's nightmare: half duck, -- half-fro- g, all cash when you place an order. The Elefun Horn. A long piece of tube with a device attached to the top, allowing it to emit the most obnoxious sound in a room rife with annoying noises. The Dobermask. The head of a Doberman pinscher, made for attachment to the noggin of 90-pl- any household pet to create the illusion of a deadly beast guarding the home. "You call yourself a report- er? And you've never heard of the Dobermask?" Pagani, a Pennsylvania disc jockey, asked incredulously. Well, no. Or, for that matter, any of the other weird and, wacky displays scattered about the ballroom. Take Gene Hrycyk of Akron, Ohio. "The Eyeball Nightlight is to plastic what the Venus de Milo is to marble," promised Hrycyk, creator of the orb with giant eyelashes, glow-in-the-da- rk Shop special Holiday hours Monday through Saturday all have to choose between reality and fantasy, and we're of course forced to choose reality; the other way lies madness," Allen said. He praised both Diane Kea-to- n and Mia Farrow, actresses with whom he has been romantically linked and whose careers he has enriched. He called Keaton a "hilarious comedienne," and said he could not have written her title character in "Annie Hall" without her "because I was taking things directly from things I'd heard her say." Farrow received particular kudos for her work as a gun moll in the 1984 movie "Broadway Danny Rose." "She was great in it ... she was wonderful from the first day," Allen we 10-- 9 Best prices in town suits on to wear 'round the world two-pan- ts said. 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Professor Christopher Frayl-inthe interviewer, is head of Page weekend at old Cape Cod when all hell is taking place at the old homestead." Thirteen Westwood youngsters face charges stemming from Incidents at parties in golden retriever ablaze. Westwood police have broken up 18 unsupervised parties involving and young adults in 10 months, including one last month in which three officers were injured halting a party by more than 150 youths. "This is a bedroom town that usually closes up at 9 o'clock," he said. "But the months for in the affluent suburb of Westwood, end police blame parents for the rash of rowdy bashes that have ended with a stereo thrown through a window or an attempt to set a dog on fire. "The parents leave and the d booze comes in," said Police Chief Francis Abbate on Friday. "Everything that goes up comes down. That's pretty obvious looking at some of these houses." beer-splattere- - Elusion." "I'd like to be remembered as someone who made at least one, if not one or two,' really great films," he said. - BOSTON (AP) It's been party time the past 10 hundreds to thousands of dollars. Many houses have been left At one party a telephone was baked in a microwave oven; at another, partiers tried to set a directing "Annie Hall," appeared on what the BBC called his first British television interview in seven years. The network is screening nine Allen films between now and THE HERAID, Provo, Utah, 15. 1987 Westwood does 'Animal House '. West-woo- Broadcasting Corp. that appeared on Friday. : "I hope it's a she ... that would be very important to me," Allen, 51, said of the child he and actress Mia Far- . Sunday, November |