Article continues below advertisementWoody Allen is mourning the loss of his longtime muse and former lover Diane Keaton. On Sunday, October 12, the Oscar-winning filmmaker published a heartfelt essay in The Free Press honoring the late actress - who died one day prior at age 79 - recalling the beginning of their short-lived romance in 1969 and the creative bond that endured for a lifetime after."Unlike anyone the planet has experienced or is unlikely to ever see again, her face and laugh illuminated any space she entered," Allen sweetly penned in his remembrance article.