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The four-hundred-page Woody Allen autobiography", "Out of Thin Air," went through several twists and turns and was finally published on Monday. This is the most honest defense woody Allen has ever made for himself in front of a public trial, not only the sexual assault case that was not convicted by the court but convicted by the public, but also his own film life.
The author of the complete book, Xian Mimi, also brought you the key content of the book. The article is very long, there are many strong materials, it is recommended to collect it first and then look at it.
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"I hope you didn't buy this book for the gossip of Song Yi and Mia Farrow." Woody Allen said in his autobiography.
How can it be? Social media has begun to take out of context quotes, yesterday I searched Google, the first one is "can't buy toilet paper during special periods?" Don't forget that Woody Allen's autobiography is also made of paper."
I spent 36 hours reading it, laughing several times to the point of tears. The tone of Woody Allen's witty wit is an underestimation, and there are at least a dozen words to describe one's own stupidity alone.
He asks sincerely in Love and Death – If God is testing us, why not give us a written test? - But not only for comedic effect. The Jew, who had been thinking about death at the age of five, who had been thinking about death as a spiritual leader, was pessimistic to death, and the good thing was that he never expected anything from them because he had no faith in humanity.
I'm going to show you about his childhood. Around eleven, after watching a vaudeville performance on an idle afternoon, Woody Allen felt a calling, convinced that one day he would become a performing artist too.
At the age of fourteen, he was invited by a well-meaning person to perform magic for two dollars; at school he said, "She has an hourglass-like figure but I just want to play in the sand", and was invited to parents, and at the same time became obsessed with baseball and jazz, and was convinced that he would become a professional baseball player or jazz musician.
Sixteen, giving up baseball and jazz, writing jokes on a typewriter stolen by his dad, then sending them out, in the heartbreak of a long wait and a failed date, got the opportunity to publish in a column, didn't want his classmates to see it, decided to change the name, Alan Königsberg became Woody Allen, the new name has little deep meaning.
High school graduation grades were mediocre, in order to make my mother shut up, applied to New York University, the ghost made God sent to be admitted, chose the film major, but always skipped class. The name appeared in the major columns, and someone called him to go to work, write a paragraph every day, $45 a week, but did not give a signature, 10 times more than he part-time to send meat to the butcher shop, go.
Due to frequent absences and being dropped out of school, the school suggested that he see a psychologist, but he never felt happy anyway, he thought it was a good idea. But after decades of counseling, he whispered that it didn't seem to be useful.
Surprisingly, apart from comics, Woody Allen hadn't read a single book in adolescence, calling himself "a world-weary illiterate who loves gangsters," and he didn't know what "Segovia" or "Ionescu" were when he was about to graduate from high school, or whether he went to the dictionary to look it up halfway after his date finished talking on the phone. In order to catch up with the girl he liked, he put down the cartoon and began to read Dostoevsky. "If I were an intellectual, Loch Ness would have monsters."
He couldn't read any other poems except "Roses are red, violets you are blue." "I just wore a pair of glasses and rubbed the difficult learning that I didn't understand into my movie, and you saw so much, there was no inventory." 」
After dropping out of school, he went to television on the recommendation of those who appreciated his comedic talents; at the age of eighteen, he had earned more than three times the salaries of his parents. Met his girlfriend, Harina, smart, beautiful and cultured. Letters from Los Angeles that a comedy show needed help, and Woody and his NBC colleagues were sent to Hollywood, where he made a name for himself and proposed to Harlena. But he was only twenty years old at the time, and he didn't know what love and marriage meant. He then went to Tamimente, Pennsylvania, where he directed his own comedy script for the first time.
Woody Allen's literary experiences are worth listing. Writers who made him less pleasant to read were: Faulkner, Kafka, Elliott, Joyce, Henry James; he liked Hemingway and Camus because it was simpler to read; loved Melville, Thomas Mann, and Turgenev; and Fitzgerald was average.
The theatrical version of Dumb Goose was inspired by the novel The Red and the Black; the "polysexual anomaly" described in Anne Hall as Diane Keaton was learned from Norman Brown (not Freud); never read Ulysses, Don Juan, Lolita, 1984, Virginia Woolf, or D.H. Lawrence.
It's a joke to say that Woody Allen likes Chaplin more than Buster Keaton, even though the latter is a better director in the minds of academics and fans simply because he finds Chaplin a little more funny.
Woody Allen imitated Chaplin
He didn't like Catherine Hepburn either, and always thought her performances were a bit fake; "Passion like Fire" and "Baby-Raising Wonderland" were not funny at all; he didn't like "How Beautiful Life is" and wanted to strangle the angel inside; he admired Hitchcock but couldn't watch "Ecstasy"; he liked "Song in the Rain" and "Meet Saint Louis". Taste, Woody Allen gives, "just like you think lingerie models are sexy but I don't."
Song in the Rain
After getting married, in the three views that could not fit and the endless quarrel, Woody began to vomit inexplicably in the middle of the night. Just when Harlena's friend Louise shows up, Woody wakes up from a dream one night and wants to move to the moon with Louise.
But he and his wife embarked on a journey of marital healing, but with little success. When he returned, he met with Louise, and his wife filed for divorce at the right time. Woody and Louise began a relationship for the next eight years and then got married. Louise was his first muse, and through her he finally learned what the love of the poet and singer Singing was all about.
But the muse often cheated, and Woody was hired to go to Paris to write the script for "The Gentleman of the Merry", but also to worry about feelings. During filming, he met the famous Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton, but the two struggled to show woody humor at the dinner table, which made him feel strange.
The Gentleman of The Merry Man
After the movie was made, Woody gritted his teeth and bought his mom a Hermès bag, but he took it to the bank safe and locked it up, never carrying it. On his way back to New York, Woody was invited to give a inaugural performance to U.S. President Lyndon Johnson, after which he made headlines when he saw a picture of himself on an airport newsstand criticizing the performance for vulgarity. After Love and Death, Woody never read anything about himself again.
"Gentleman of the Wind" and later "What happened, Tiger Lily?" Woody hated it to the bone, and he vowed not to touch the movie unless he was a director himself.
"Fools in Prison" was his first film as a director, and he was more excited to finally see the criminals in St Quentin prison than the first time he was a director. At that time, he didn't know the camera, he didn't know the lighting, and he didn't know how to be a director.
"Fools in Prison"
To this day, he doesn't understand the technical problems of film shooting, nor is he interested in delving into lighting, but he knows that he needs to open the lens cover before shooting.
After the film was finished, the whole rhythm was dead, so the company hired editor Ralph Rosenblum to reinvest life into the film, and finally "Fool in Prison" won a win-win at the box office and word of mouth. "That's how I got into the film industry," Woody Allen says, "with hard work, some talent, a lot of luck, and help from others."
Woody Allen never skimped on compliments to the cast and crew, saying that if something went wrong with the film, it was the script. After the success of "Dumb Goose", Lianyi extended an olive branch to him and gave him a contract for three feature films, so he began to write the script of "Banana" - originally let the company buy the rights to the novel to adapt, but then the content in the original book was not used at all, and the boss Arthur Kerim knew that he planned to sue Woody in the future.
Later, "Banana" received a wave of praise, and Kerim suddenly became his number one fan again. Still, Woody was grateful to him, claiming that without him he wouldn't be where he is today. Woody and United Arts collaborated on a total of fifteen films.
Banana
At this time, Woody Allen was able to afford to buy a mansion on Fifth Avenue in New York, and Diane Keaton said that he wanted to move in with him, but he hesitated and agreed. Diane began to appear in Woody's life from the theatrical version of "Dumb Goose", when Woody and Louise had peacefully divorced. Woody's first impression of Diane was that if The Adventures of Mark Twain's Huckleberry Finn was a woman, it would have been Diane Keaton.
Woody said that if you use the phrase "make the whole room shine" to describe a person's personality, Keaton is making the whole street shine. The first time they met, he didn't think much of Diane until one rehearsal night when they went to dinner, and Woody found that she was really charming, cute and beautiful, eating like Italian boxer Primo Canela, and then naturally got together.
The days with Diane were fun, the two never quarreled, and with her going to Hollywood to shoot "The Godfather", the relationship ended, but they also became friends for a lifetime. Woody revealed that he later dated keaton's two younger sisters as well.
Diane Keaton The Godfather
With the success of The Godfather and Lawrence of Arabia, Woody began to think about epic comedy. Comedies at the time were short, and he wanted to make a two-act play, the first half of which was his adventure in contemporary New York, the second half about the future, and the intermission in the middle.
This brings us to "Fools in Science City", where Woody decides to let Diane star. But when the script was first written, he found that he could not think of an adventure, so he quickly gave up the idea, and the film became a science fiction comedy of ordinary length, and won many awards.
"Fools Make a Fuss about Science City"
Regarding casting, Woody said that he didn't like the traditional casting set, the actors came into the house, were scrutinized by everyone, and then read the script and acted for a while. He likes to pick from the recommendations given to him by the casting director, look at the actor's previous works, no problem, it is decided, if you want to meet, it is just to make sure that the actor is not fat, no plastic surgery, not joined by any terrorist organization - he does not like to meet with actors, do not know what to say to them. He confessed that he was not a passionate person, an emotionally unstable actor, and he did not need talent.
He didn't talk much to Naomi Watts during the entire shoot of Strangers, and she came in the morning, said hello to Woody, and started shooting. Naomi's first day in the group was filmed with Josh Brolin, which was intense, but she did it almost perfectly.
The collaboration with Marion Cotillard in Midnight in Paris was also pleasant for Woody, although the two didn't talk much — he just didn't know what to talk to the actors , but Giordia cried once on the set, and he didn't know why, she seemed to be dissatisfied with her performance.
Midnight in Paris
After Love and Death, Woody wanted to make a realistic comedy, a film where he could talk to the audience and show his soul. And that's where There's Anne Hall. Anne Hall is the first collaboration between Woody and Gordon Willis, the photographer of The Godfather.
Regarding making films, Woody said he learned from two people, editor Ralph Rosenbrunn and Gordon Willis. At first, he named the film "Anhedonia", which psychologically referred to not feeling happy, but the boss did not like it; another screenwriter of the film, Marshall Brickman, proposed "Doctor Mischievous", and the boss was afraid that they would actually use the title, and they were very panicked. Eventually Woody decides to call it Anne Hall, which is Diane's last name.
Anne Hall was nominated for several Oscars, he didn't go to the awards ceremony, and when he got up the next day, he saw in the newspaper that the film had won four awards, and he thought for a moment, finished eating the cereal in the bowl, and went back to the typewriter to continue working.
"Anne Hall"
The Oscar organizing committee was annoyed by his attitude and called to accuse him of not putting the winning information in the newspaper advertisement. Woody said it's not that he has an opinion on the Oscars, but because he doesn't think there's a best movie, who can decide what's the best movie?
Manhattan is based on the story of Woody and Stacy Nelkien, the actor who came to interview For Annie Hall. Stacy was eighteen at the time, and both Woody and his screenwriter, Marshall Brickman, were captivated by her for being smart, beautiful, and confident. But Woody says he's never been in a relationship or had a scandal with any of the actresses or stand-ins he's working with in his life, and Mia Farrow isn't the actress he's known on film.
In his own words, "My self-esteem is only as high as Dzabryski's Corner" — I met my favorite playwright, Tennessee Williams, who went out of his way to tell Woody that he thought he was a real artist, and Woody turned his head to make sure Tennessee was talking about himself. Years later, Tennessee's biographer compiled a notebook of how Tennessee had praised Woody's words and sent them to him, but he still didn't take them too seriously.
Newspapers are keen to argue that Woody likes young girls, but his two wives are only three years younger than him, and in terms of the girls he has dated in his life, there are only a few who are much younger than him, the only one is Song Yi. Stacy took the initiative to ask Alan out, when her scene was finished, Ellen and her coffee, and then flew to Los Angeles to continue filming "Anne Hall", Stacy went to Southern France, and sent Alan a postcard, until a few months later the two returned to New York separately, and then began dating.
Woody Allen and Song Yi
In his more than fifty years of film career, Woody has generated a total of 62 nominations for his 106 female characters in his films, and has never had a scandal with any of them; coupled with the fact that he has been able to hire female staff independent of Hollywood studios, the 230 female staff members who have worked for Woody are paid the same as men. The only actress he talks a lot about is Emma Stone, because she's so smart and funny. She taught Woody how to text.
Ever since "Fools In Prison," Woody wanted to make a documentary-style comedy, and after "Deep in My Heart" and "Manhattan," he felt it was time.
After writing the script of "Xili Biography" and waiting for preparation, he wrote "Midsummer Night Sex Comedy" and told Lianyi that he wanted to shoot both at the same time. In both films, he used his new muse, Mia Farrow.
Woody met Mia because of a fan letter, she was no less famous than Woody at the time, and she wrote at the end of the letter, "Simply put, I love you." Woody had always thought she was very beautiful, looking like his ex-wife Louise.
Midsummer Night Sex Comedy
After the letter, the two didn't meet at a party until a few years later, but there was no follow-up, and then the day after Woody's New Year's party, Mia sent him a copy of Lewis Thomas's Jellyfish and Snails and a thank-you note, and Woody sent her an invitation to have lunch together. Then they went on a few more dates, each time with Woody's assistant calling Mia to make an appointment.
After a while together, Woody felt that he did not deserve Mia at all, and the two watched Bergman's films together, and Mia told him that she had a good time with the cinematographer Sven Nikowest; went to dinner, and the Mozart Symphony heard in the taxi was directed by her ex-husband Andre Pleven; and when they arrived at the hotel, the jukebox was played with songs by her other ex-husband, Frank Sinatra.
When Woody knew that Mia had seven children, he didn't think much of it, it was like knowing that she could draw and perform, it was a point about her, he didn't think about whether it was a little strange for a woman who had three children and then adopted four, in addition to being pretty, gentle, and considerate, the best thing about Farrow was that she lived across from Central Park, which really saved a lot of money.
After a few weeks of dating, one day Mia suddenly told Woody that she wanted to give him a baby. A few weeks later, the two were eating at a Chinese restaurant, and Mia proposed marriage. Woody tells her that after two marriages (Farrow himself has been married twice), he feels that the success of a relationship does not depend on a marriage contract, and that they are together for a long time.
Mia was furious, but the two had been dating for thirteen years, during which they had neither married nor lived together, and Woody had never spent the night at Mia's house, unaware of her relationship with her seven children.
Rumors spread that Mia interfered in Andrei Pleven's marriage and became pregnant with his child, causing Plevin's then-wife Dolly Pleven to have a nervous breakdown, but Woody did not care too much, and in the later confrontation between Mia and Ellen about the custody of the child, Dolly contacted Woody, told him that the rumors were true, and reminded him that she had written a song about her father sexually assaulting her daughter, called "Daddy in the Attic", and Mia was afraid that she would use the contents of this song to slander Woody.
Woody thought it was nonsense at the time. Moses, Mia's adopted son, told Alan that Mia had been sexually abused by her brother as a child. Her brother was sexually assaulted by their father as a child, and her brother later went to jail for sexually assaulting boys.
The way Mia raises her children can be referred to Kore-eda's Nobody Knows. Her adopted son, Moses, accused Mia in a blog post that she had been abusing them mentally and physically.
Moses' brother Sardeus (paralyzed by polio) was thrown by Mia for a night in a small dark room with a door button (Sardeus later committed suicide) for a small mistake, and she often dragged the child down the stairs and threw it into the room to lock the door to make him reflect. Mia denied it, but the two nannies she hired at the time confirmed the claim. During this period, Mia also adopted some children, some of which were raised for a few days and sent back.
Mia never gave up on the idea of having a baby with Woody, but Woody said it was difficult to understand, and Mia's statement was", "You like to make movies, I like to raise children." After countless attempts and still unable to conceive, Mia adopts Dylan, and Woody never imagined that he would like the child so much.
Dylan was his heart, knowing that she liked the little red leather shoes worn by Dorothy in The Wizard of Oz, he asked his colleagues in the clothing department to make him a pair of identical ones overnight, and quietly put them on her bed at night.
The Wizard of Oz
Mia then announces that she is pregnant and needs to reconsider her relationship with Woody and begins to be very cold to him. At that time, the relationship between the two was not so much a partner as a partner, and they did not interfere with each other or live together, but after Ronan was born, Farrow almost monopolized him and did not let Woody see him. During this time, Woody visited Dylan and Moses twice a day.
Until Ronan was eleven, the family's two nannies saw Mia naked and Ronan sleeping together more than once. At the same time, she neglected to take care of several other children. When these children grew up, some were arrested for stealing, some committed suicide, and one died alone in the hospital after suffering from AIDS.
She was seven years old when Mia adopted Song Yi, and at first glance she didn't like Mia. Song Yi did not know English, Mia had no patience in teaching, woke her up from bed in the middle of the night, blamed her for learning slowly, and picked her up backwards, threatening to send her to a mental hospital; even if Song Yi accidentally broke her foot while playing football, Mia did not bother to take her to the hospital.
Song Yi, like the eldest son in "Nobody Knows", is the little nanny in the family. She tells Woody that it would be silly if he thought Mia had loved him, and that she was in love with The Graduate director Mike Nichols, who cried into tears when she remarried.
Mia Farrow and Mike Nichols
Woody and Song Yi didn't like each other very much at the time, he felt that she was always sullen and introverted, plus Mia always said in front of Woody that Song Yi was mentally retarded, and Song Yi felt that Woody was Mia's clown. Once, at Mia's suggestion, Woody took Song Yi to a basketball game, and he discovered that the girl was smart and sensitive, and gradually learned that there were deep problems hidden within Mia's family. So the two began to get acquainted, but it was not until much later that they realized their love for each other, and both were surprised.
Toward the end of the filming of The Virtuous Couple, Mia discovers Woody and Song Yi's affair, and she announces to the world that Woody Allen raped her underage mentally handicapped daughter (who was twenty-two years old at the time) and told all her children, so four-year-old Ronan saw someone and shouted, "My father raped my sister!" Then Mia locked Up Song Yi, beat her and intimidated her, and cut off her tuition supply.
Then he called Woody's sister and said, "He stole my daughter, now I'm going to take him." Then call Woody, "You wait, I'm going to surprise you." Woody joked that it wouldn't be a good idea to plant a bomb in my car, and Mia said, "It's better than that."
On August 4, 1992, Woody flew to Mia's villa in Connecticut to discuss custody of the child. In the afternoon, Mia goes out shopping, and Woody sits with the kids and the two nannies watching TV (everyone is told to keep an eye on Woody).
Without his place, Woody sat on the floor, his head resting on the couch, probably leaning against Dylan's knee. Then Woody bored to the pond to make a few phone calls, Mia came home, the two went out to eat, there was almost no conversation; on the morning of August 5th, Woody finished breakfast, played with Dylan and Ronan for a while, let them pick a few toys they wanted from the catalog, he brought it next time; Woody returned to New York in the afternoon; on August 6th he went to see Dylan's psychiatrist, the doctor said that she was told that Woody had sexually assaulted Dylan, she had to report it to the head, Woody said it was no problem.
Mia Farrow, Woody Allen, Dylan, Ronan
An old man of fifty-seven years old who has never had misconduct in his life, who has just found the love of his life, who must perform well in the fight for custody of his children, flies from New York to Connecticut, and suddenly decides to sexually assault his beloved seven-year-old daughter under the eyes of a room full of people who hate him, and Woody thinks that no normal person will believe this accusation.
Then, Mia and the psychiatrist asked Dylan if Woody had touched her, and Dylan said no, so Mia took her to ice cream, and when she came back, her statement changed.
For the next two or three years, Mia kept taking nude videos of Dylan and guiding her to repeat the scene; when Dylan's other psychiatrist accused Mia of doing it, Mia fired her; Mia's nanny, Sandy Bruch, ran into Dylan crying at home and asked her why she was crying, and she said that her mother wanted me to lie.
After a lengthy investigation, the Yale New Haven Hospital Child Sexual Assault Clinic and the New York State Child Welfare Agency announced that Woody Allen had not sexually assaulted Dylan, noting that there was a good chance that Dylan had been manipulated, but did not make a judgment.
During the investigation at New Haven Hospital, investigators met with Mia Farrow and Woody Allen several times. Mia describes Dylan as helpless after being sexually assaulted and running helplessly to her sister (who later died alone in the hospital, and Mia never visited her) and hugging her, woody saying that her sister was not at home in Connecticut at the time, but in New York. Mia thought for a moment and said that she was not there, and Dylan was embracing her spiritually.
The judge who hears Woody's custody case hates Woody to the bone at first sight, and he feels that the beautiful Mia Farrow is really pitiful. Interviewed Woody, is losing custody of your child the worst thing for you? Woody said, no, get a brain tumor.
The judge then died suddenly of a brain tumor before the trial began. Among the articles that relish reporting that Woody sexually assaulted Dylan are reporters who have known Woody years ago and interviewed him; and child psychologists who have called Woody and asked him not to be summoned to court because of his timidity and for Woody to introduce his son to work in the film industry. Mia and her team asked Woody for a $7 million settlement, which Woody refused. He also took a lie test, but when the police asked Farrow to test it too, she refused.
When paparazzi and journalists around the world are haunted by the magic of chasing Woody Allen and his ex-girlfriend's adopted daughter, Woody and Song Yi hide in his luxurious but leaky apartment, and the feeling of the two people fighting the world deepens their feelings.
None of them were very interested in getting married, but they ended up getting married, "entirely in financial terms," Woody said, saying that because he was so much older than her and could die at any moment, he wanted to leave her all the rights that a wife was guaranteed by law. The wedding of the two is too romantic, and I will not repeat it here.
The last film woody and Mia worked on was "The Virtuous Couple", "Manhattan Murder" was originally intended for her to play, and it seems impossible at the moment, but Mia really wanted to star, and said that if Woody did not ask her to play, she would sue him.
Since then, Woody's life, threats and intimidation, stalking and scorn have not stopped, someone asked him if he regretted being with Song Yi, he said that if he did it again, he would do it again, and his greatest achievement in life was not a movie, but the rescue of Song Yi and the discovery of her talent. When Mia was at her worst, there was a documentary about Woody and Song Yi, "Wild man blues", which I recommend you to watch.
Savage Blues
Countless people, including Woody himself, have asked Song Yi, are you grateful to Mia for freeing you from the orphanage? Song Yi said, no, I still like orphanages.
Woody and Song Yi's two children were adopted, and he never thought that he would have a few of them himself, and not bringing the children to this stupid world was the best gift for them.
The Ferris Wheel begins, and Mia Farrow is back. Until then, Woody naively thought that Dylan would understand all this when he grew up, but instead she went on TV and tearfully accused Woody of his behavior and described how she was sexually assaulted in the attic.
Dylan
Moses wrote that the attic of their house was not finished at that time, and there were piles of building materials, and it was impossible to enter it.
But people chose to believe Dylan. What makes Woody interesting is that no one wants to take a minute to find out the truth, or have the slightest suspicion of Mia's series of actions, as if they particularly liked the story of the sexual assault.
A magazine once interviewed Song Yi, and after Song Yi told them that her affair with Woody was discovered, Mia locked her in her room and hit her on the telephone. The reporter asked: Can someone testify to you?
Many people in the circle privately told Woody that they believed Woody, but when asked why they didn't speak up for him, they said that it was not good for their public image, and even some people publicly said, regardless of the facts, I am on the side of women.
Woody said that drawing a line with me is a more popular thing at the moment, like the sudden popularity of eating kale. He doesn't blame many actors for taking sides without knowing it, but is disappointed with the Attitude of the New York Times. As a serious newspaper, it is fully capable and obligated to investigate the truth of the facts, but instead the article emphasizes that "Woody Allen denied" and "Woody Allen was not convicted".
Woody Allen was happy that there were normal people in other countries besides the United States, so "A Rainy Day in New York" was able to meet with everyone.
"A Rainy Day in New York"
Sweet Tea swore to Woody's sister that he donated money and stood in line because he had a better chance of winning the Oscar for Best Actor in doing so; Ellie Fanning replied when pressed by the media, when she was not yet born, so she did not answer. Catherine Deneuve, Isabelle Hupper, Jude Lowe, Charlotte Lampling, and Almodóvar publicly expressed their support for Woody Allen, and Woody thanked him.
At the end of the autobiography, the author gives us a few extra Easter eggs.
One word sums up your life: luck.
The biggest regret: it cost others so much money that I have not yet made a great work.
Who would most like to exchange talents: jazz piano master Bud Powell.
The most admired person in history: Ranger Cheene, unfortunately a fictional character.
The woman I admire the most: Song Yi, it's not that she would hit me on the knee with a rolling pin if she didn't say so, but that she embarked on the road to find a better life alone when she was five years old.
The most envious thing: to be able to write "Desire StreetCar".
The least enviable thing: playing on the grass.
What a different choice to make once in a lifetime: never buy a tv shopping recommended vegetable cutting artifact.
Don't want to be a legend: I prefer to live in my apartment rather than live in the hearts of the public.