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WILLIAMDMCCRUM: Re: "It was fascinating to see him on a hotel room bed, piecing together bits of paper with ideas scribbled on them, and confessing that he still uses only an old-fashioned typewriter."
I'm startled whenever writers today use typewriters or do their writing, which makes some of the simplest of edits near impossible. We all send email and I'm sure that I'm not alone in routinely adjusting things I write to friends -- shortening sentences, combining some, rearranging them, emphasizing points, substituting words, and so forth. I look back to the days when I rolled a sheet of 8 1/2 by 11 bond into my typewriter (long before I had an IBM Selectric with correction tape) and what a nightmare it could sometimes be to get everything just perfect from the top of the page down to the bottom. Someone should have taken Woody aside 30 years ago and shown him how to make his life soooooooo much easier! (And maybe even more productive, although that's probably unlikely!)
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Looks fun! And certainly a rarity: A movie starring Woody Allen NOT written nor directed by Woody
Allen!
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So what's Woody Allen up to these days? I just watched "Blue Jasmine," and posted the following at the site asking what movie we last saw:
Blue Jasmine
I just watched this and think that it is the worst Woody Allen film I have ever seen, and I've seen almost all of them. I simply hated it. And who in their right mind would think that it's a comedy? Perhaps … if you also think that "Schindler's List" and "Sophie's Choice" are comedies! I usually like Cate Blanchett, but she plays this dipsy character whose late husband had embezzled people's life savings, including those of her sister and brother-in-law, and she is now dependent upon the kindness of strangers and that sister is one of the few people who are still willing to go out of their way for her. I found myself screaming at the TV and there are characters I can't stand talking non-stop about things I have no desire to hear, most notably Blanchett's character, who is falling apart. This is such an unpleasant movie that I feel they should have paid US to see it! Simply horrible.
I"m sure there are lots here who'll disagree and insist that I just "didn't get it." I didn't.
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Woody Allen is 80 years old today.
When did THAT happen? I knew he was in his 70s but he's suddenly 80! I could picture him living beyond 100 though.
Did you know that Twilight Time recently put out Shadows & Fog on Blu-ray? Blew my mind because it is perhaps my favorite underappreciated Woody film of them all.
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