Writer and director Woody Allen has lavished praise on his latest muse, Scarlett Johansson.

Having appeared in Allen's recent films 'Match Point', 'Scoop' and 'Vicky Christina Barcelona', the starlet has proudly taken on the title as his inspiration.

Allen recently said that the actress is "criminally sexy… there is a tiny bit of Marilyn Monroe in her zaftig humidity". "Zaftig" is a Yiddish word meaning juicy or a woman of pleasantly plump proportions.

Johansson evidently thinks just as highly of Allen saying: "I'd sew the hems of his pants if he asked me to."