“It used to be Diane Keaton with me—she always used to tell me, ‘I’m terrible, I’m awful, I can’t do it, you should get someone else.’ And she was always brilliant. Well, Larry is like this,” said Woody Allen via telephone from his Upper East Side apartment last week. The 73-year-old director was discussing his Read More
Wake up, girls! This is the dawning of a new era. It’s time to get serious. The age of Obama has no place for superficial broads who spend all day ironing their hair, blowing their credit on status handbags and coveting bunion-mangling shoes.
In the super-earnest, cash-strapped America of today, you Read More
Everyone remembers the blowhard on the movie line in Annie Hall. But almost nobody remembers that some of what he says is right.
“We saw the Fellini film,” he begins, and forget the blather about La Strada being a great film for its use of “negative imagery” (whatever that is). The cineaste showboat’s complaints about Read More
Do Hwa is the latest new wave Korean restaurant to open downtown, following Dok Suni in the East Village and Woo Lae Oak in SoHo. It’s in a residential part of the West Village that has been injected with a bustling night life, thanks to hip young restaurants such as Isla, Blue Ribbon Bakery and Read More
Do Hwa is the latest new wave Korean restaurant to open downtown, following Dok Suni in the East Village and Woo Lae Oak in SoHo. It’s in a residential part of the West Village that has been injected with a bustling night life, thanks to hip young restaurants such as Isla, Blue Ribbon Bakery and Read More
Woody Allen: A Biography , by John Baxter. Carroll & Graf, 492 pages, $27.
To those of you leery of back-jacket “advance praise,” let me say straight off that British biographer John Baxter’s nearly 500-page deconstruction of Woody Allen amply lives up to the adjectives that adorn its hindquarters. “Often hilarious”? You betcha! How else Read More
Neil Jordan’s The End of the Affair , based on the novel by Graham Greene, captures on the screen almost all of the power and the glory one has experienced in the pages of one of the most magical and most deeply felt love stories in all of the world’s writings. I say almost, because Read More
