Now as I was young and fuzzy, mired in what we were assured was a university education, just beginning to pull my head out of my… Okay, look – no need for vulgarity here. Let’s leave it at this: I was pulling my head from the sand and becoming aware of kinds of culture other…
Did Jew Eat Yet? That’s not my line above; it’s from Woody Allen’s film Annie Hall. Allen told his friend he heard a television exec ask him that in a meeting. His friend said he was paranoid. August 1991 In the Crown Heights section of Brooklyn, a Jewish man accidentally killed one black child and…
The doctor was over an hour late for my mammogram appointment this morning. The only magazines in the office were about decorating and polo, and my phone was being wonky, so I had a lot of time to think. As you might expect, I thought about breasts. A lot. Too much. Specifically, I wondered why,…
“So, can we still love the work of Woody Allen? For me, the answer is an uneasy “yes.” Because, I do. To say I’ll stop would just be another lie in a situation already mired in falsehoods and overlooked facts. “So, I think we can still love the work of Woody Allen, but under one…
20th Century Home Entertainment continues to explore their library, releasing Blu-ray editions of popular and important films. Recently, two of Woody Allen’s best films were released and are worth a second look. Allen as a comedian was a witty, smart writer and performer, coming from a literate line of humor that was in rapid decline…
I met Drew Friedman in 1990 through a long-standing friendship with his brother and then-frequent collaborator, the songwriter and social critic Josh Alan Friedman, while we were attending a cartoonists’ convention in Dallas as working artists and comic-book developers. Drew had built a reputation within the industry as a meticulously lifelike portraitist, capable of arraying…
Okay, there’s been all kinds of rumors about this year’s Doctor Who Christmas Special. People have been fighting about Australian pop star Kylie Minogue, and nobody’s been able to confirm her appearance. That’s fine; the last pop star (Billie Piper) turned out swell, so what the heck. But Woody Allen playing Albert Einstein? That’s what…
