Woody Allen pens heartfelt tribute to Diane Keaton after her death at 79

Woody Allen described a “bleaker world” without his ex-girlfriend and long-time friend Diane Keaton.

Allen wrote an essay about the movie star after his death at age 79.

“It’s grammatically incorrect to say ‘most unique,’ but when talking about Diane Keaton all rules of grammar, and I guess everything else, are suspended,” he wrote. Free Press. “Unlike anyone else the planet has ever inhabited or is unlikely to ever see again, his face and laughter lit up every space he entered.”

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Allen and Keaton first met while working on “Play it Again, Sam” in the early 1970s. Their romantic relationship lasted only a few years, but the two remained close friends for the next six decades.

The actor stated that they were both shy but shared lunch together during rehearsal.

“This was our first moment of personal contact,” he wrote. “In the end, it was so enchanting, so beautiful, so magical that I questioned my sanity. I thought: Can I fall in love so quickly?”

According to Allen, “only God and Freud could understand” why they could not continue as a couple.

“A few days ago the world was a place that included Diane Keaton,” he added. “There’s a world that isn’t like that anymore. So it’s a bleaker world. And yet there are his movies. And his great laugh still echoes in my head.”

Diane Keaton and Woody Allen on the set of the movie “Sleeper”. (Sunset Boulevard/Corbis via Getty Images)

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Diane Keaton died on October 11 at the age of 79. (Photo: Gilbert Flores/WWD via Getty Images)

Keaton died on October 11 in California. A spokesperson for the actress said: “No further details are available at this time and her family has requested privacy at this time of great sadness.” People magazine.

A friend of Keaton’s later told the press, “He rejected it very suddenly and it was heartbreaking for everyone who loved him.” “This was so unexpected, especially for someone with such strength and spirit.

“In his final months, he was surrounded by only his closest family, who chose to keep things very private,” the insider added. “Even long-time friends weren’t fully aware of what was going on.”

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Diane Keaton and Woody Allen are walking down a street and talking in a scene from “Annie Hall.” (Courtesy United Artists/Getty Images)

In addition to “Play It Again, Sam” and “Annie Hall,” Keaton and Allen collaborated on six more films, including “Sleeper” (1973), “Love and Death” (1975), “Interiors” (1978), “Manhattan” (1979), “Radio Days” (1987) and “Manhattan Murder Mystery” (1993).

Allen clarified that of all the opinions, he was the only one who took Keaton’s opinion of his films seriously.

“I have never read a single criticism of my work and cared only about what Keaton had to say about it,” he wrote in The Free Press. “If he liked it, I counted the movie as an artistic success. If he wasn’t as enthusiastic, I tried to use his review to reframe it and come up with something he felt better about.”

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Fox News Digital’s Ashley Hume contributed to this report.