Comments on: Never trust anyone over 69

By: Buddy Larsen

Buddy Larsen — Tue, 06 Dec 2005 23:48:20 +0000

Another doozy akin to Pauline Kael’s is Mark Twain’s on Richard Wagner’s music “It’s much better than it sounds.”

By: Buddy Larsen

Buddy Larsen — Tue, 06 Dec 2005 13:32:34 +0000

LOL, Charlie-the-scalpel. What if your great talent is to be flawed? –not you, Charlie…heh heh (breaks out in sweat, tugs collar)….;-)

By: Charlie (Colorado)

Charlie (Colorado) — Sat, 03 Dec 2005 16:49:12 +0000

He is a great talent, albiet flawed, but then again who isn’t.

Lots of us. The “flawed” part is easy.

By: Pat Curley

Pat Curley — Fri, 02 Dec 2005 19:48:49 +0000

The Curse of the Jade Scorpion (2001) was pretty clever, although it definitely showed that his career as a leading man was over; the romance between him and Helen Hunt was not credible.

By: Esbiem

Esbiem — Fri, 02 Dec 2005 14:45:56 +0000

Sure, Woody Allen repeats his same character over and over again in his films. In that he came to represent a known quantity, someone like say, the neighbor you speak to at the neighborhood parties. I introduced my 22 year old daughter to Woody’s “Love and Death” last night, she had never seen any of his films and she got it instantly, she laughed all the way through the film. I have enjoyed all of his films that I have watched, many over and over again, in one way or another, even the painful ones like “Mighty Aphrodite”. But by far the one that cracked me up the most was “A Mid Summers Nights Sex Comedy” with Mary Steenburgeon. He is a great talent, albiet flawed, but then again who isn’t. I have little patience for critics who demand that someone be 100% perfect in all that they do, whether we’re speaking of the President of the United States, the founder of a small business or a writer. Whould that a critic put his own work out there knowing that it is to be unflichingly criticised in the pages of the “press”.

By: Patrick Tyson

Patrick Tyson — Fri, 02 Dec 2005 01:29:50 +0000

I'd call him a sadistic, hippophilic necrophile, but that would be beating a dead horse. —Woody Allen, Julie Bennett, Frank Buxton, Louise Lasser, Len Maxwell, Mikey Rose & Bryan Wilson, What's Up, Tiger Lily? The Europeans like pictures that drone on, and I'm good at making pictures that drone on. Woody Allen in Wild Man Blues ...and so it goes.

By: JK Ribera

JK Ribera — Thu, 01 Dec 2005 23:40:21 +0000

Didn’t our host actually write a movie for Woody

Allen. He’s being strangely silent.

By: Ed Driscoll

Ed Driscoll — Thu, 01 Dec 2005 22:55:39 +0000

“It’s deep, on the surface.”

That’s terrific–I’ll file that one away for future use myself.

By: Silicon valley Jim

Silicon valley Jim — Thu, 01 Dec 2005 22:31:24 +0000

I feel the same way about Woodie Allen as I do about Joyce Carol Oates. Great artists who ruined their reputation by not retiring sooner.

Amen to that. My first thought on seeing that Allen had turned seventy was that it means that he stopped being funny about the time that he turned forty.

By: Syl

Syl — Thu, 01 Dec 2005 22:17:45 +0000

I don’t really care about anybody’s lifestyle.

And I’ll just remember Annie Hall.

And watch it again from time to time.

That’s all I need.

(Heck, I don’t mind his ‘poor little me’ pose. I found it rather endearing.)