well... la dee da, la dee da.

i could quote woody movies for days...

cborgman said:

"Annie Hall!"

Love that movie to death...

How about:


"Mia, I'm leaving you for your adopted daughter, whom I've helped to raise?"

ThreadBare said:

Is that from Manhattan Murder Mystery?

ThreadBare said:

Is that from Manhattan Murder Mystery?

u2prnce said:

No, that's from real life. He had an affair with his wife's adopted daughter -- who was much younger, as you'd imagine. Now, they're married and parents together.

ThreadBare said:

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ThreadBare said:

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ThreadBare said:

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PurpleRein said:

Sorry, amigo. Whereas some see him as a gifted auteur who embodies neurosis, I see a perv who tore up his family and took *forever* to have a black character in his films. And the first time he did, he wasted Hazelle in the role of a prostitute.

Sorry to be a killjoy.

Let's see:

Um, hey, "Bananas" was funny.

ThreadBare said:

if i had to quit appreciating an artist's work because of how they carry on in their public life, i'd have nothing left to watch, read, or listen to.

with woody, i love the artist - don't really like to think much about the man.

Anx said:

And let's face it, in america we love our tradgedies. We love to be able to point at celebrities and say 'at least I'm not as messed up as him/her."

CarrieMpls said:

did you talk to Johanna about JerseyKRS yet?..he's in heat

In all the rehabilitation that Woody Allen seems to be undergoing at present, there was a detail that caught my eye. In a recent interview, he said that long after he and Mia Farrow had split up, he considered casting her in a movie, because there was simply no one else who could do the job as well. His casting director reportedly said, 'What are you, nuts?' I ask Farrow whether she would have taken the role.

'I don't think I would have been able to do that,' she says. 'Too much damage, to my kids. Not to say one doesn't forgive, and you can't walk around with a huge amount of anger. It's too heavy, and it would ruin my life.' She speaks of the 'tragedy' of losing Soon-Yi, and 'the difficulty of having a son whose father is his brother-in-law - or, if you like, whose sister is his stepmother. It's not a great blueprint.' She says she can't think of Allen and Soon-Yi's two adopted children as her grandchildren ('there's no point in thinking about it at all, except to be concerned for the children, which of course I am'), and that the prospect of Soon-Yi's return is 'too big a hypothetical - she's not coming back'.