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The Woody Path Even before that well-publicized little disaster with his adopted daughter and his ex-wife, before Mira Sorvino won on Oscar for playing a hooker to his married, nebbishy sportswriter, before he was writing and producing musicals, for god's sake, Woody Allen was still a publicly confirmed neurotic. His funniest work has been written from that perspective, including 1980's Stardust Memories, in which he is consumed by fame and bedeviled by love (most hauntingly by a luminous and troubled Charlotte Rampling), and 1979's Manhattan, his rumination on love and betrayal that gave us a young Mariel Hemingway and a Gershwin serenade to the Big Apple. Stardust Memories screens at 7:10 p.m., Manhattan at 9 p.m. at the Castro Theater, 429 Castro, S.F. Admission is $4-6.50; call 621-6120.