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Woody is cheap gucci ladies watches among our foremost filmmakers. We might quibble over whether he has cheap gucci ladies watches made a singularly great film that stands with, say, The Seventh Seal or Amarcord. Woody himself says he is cheap gucci ladies watches still trying to make the great film that has thus far, in his own estimation, eluded him. We may accept that cheap gucci ladies watches assessment without backing off one whit from our awe before the cheap gucci ladies watches remarkable and rare achievement marked by his incredible body of work, a cheap gucci ladies watches film a year for forty years, among them–off the top of my head–Annie Hall, Manhattan, Hannah and Her Sisters, Match Point, Vicky Cristina Barcelona, and Midnight in Paris. Upon going to a list of his films, I hastily add Love and Death, Interiors, Husbands and Wives, and Crimes and Misdemeanors as special ones that cheap gucci ladies watches deserve to be singled out. I imagine others would subtract from cheap gucci ladies watches my list and add to it to make up their own. Even the cheap gucci ladies watches lesser films, the ones that are more purely comedic or just do not quite measure up, have their moments of humor and poignancy.

What do you suppose it says about Woody Allen’s public persona that cheap gucci ladies watches it comes more naturally to refer to him by first name than cheap gucci ladies watches by last? Perhaps in part this cheap gucci ladies watches is because for so much of his career Woody played the cheap gucci ladies watches male lead in his films, so that cheap gucci ladies watches rightly or wrongly we tend to identify the protagonist with Woody the cheap gucci ladies watches person. In the later films I find myself seeing Larry David, Josh Brolin, Owen Wilson, as the “Woody Allen character,” sometimes thinking, probably unfairly, Woody would have cheap gucci ladies watches delivered this line differrently, that line better. Woody’s protagonists tend to cheap gucci ladies watches be anxious, overly reflective, cognizant of mortality and life’s fleeting nature, sometimes morbidly so, calling to cheap gucci ladies watches mind stereotypical intellectual figures while never being reduced to stereotype. The capacity to cheap gucci ladies watches direct witty barbs at themselves and their foibles as well as at others enables them to cheap gucci ladies watches retain a certain affability, to be likeable even at their whiniest.

Woody gleefully harpoons the cheap gucci ladies watches pretensions of intellectuals without coming across as in any way anti-intellectual himself, as in the cheap gucci ladies watches scene from Annie Hall where the man standing behind Alvy and Annie in line to see The Sorrow and the Pity drives Alvy to distraction as he pontificates ad nauseam about the cheap gucci ladies watches shortcomings of Fellini and Beckett before going on and on and cheap gucci ladies watches on about Marshall McLuhan, moving Alvy to speculate what he wouldn’t give for a large sock with horse manure in it, then producing McLuhan himself to refute the windbag. It is not just that this fellow prattles on as he does that grates on Alvy; it’s that he gets Fellini, Beckett, and McLuhan all wrong. It is worth noting in the context that The Sorrow and the Pity, a cheap gucci ladies watches four-hour documentary about Vichy France collaboration with Nazi Germany from 1940 to cheap gucci ladies watches 1944, is not exactly middlebrow fare; thus Alvy’s determination to cheap gucci ladies watches see this film, which if memory serves he had already viewed on a cheap gucci ladies watches number of occasions, might itself indicate a bit of pretension.

Woody has been graced with the good fortune to be able to cheap gucci ladies watches devote his life to his work, and he has made the cheap gucci ladies watches most of it. At age fifteen he began selling jokes to cheap gucci ladies watches New York columnists such as Earl Wilson. He moved on to cheap gucci ladies watches write for talk shows before his agents, Charles Joffe and cheap gucci ladies watches Jack Rollin, convinced him to do stand-up and tell his own jokes, for cheap gucci ladies watches which he had no inclination at the beginning, and his performances were uneven at best. (Among his role models as a stand-up comic was the cheap gucci ladies watches wonderful Mort Sahl, known for his political and topical humor. I recall Sahl’s dry one-liner satirizing conventional, 1950s, early 1960s, notions about women: “A woman’s place is in the stove.”).

Woody’s success as a comic led to his being approached to write a script for What’s New, Pussycat? for which he would have a moderate role as a character in the film. The experience with What’s New, Pussycat? was not altogether a good one. He felt that if he had called the shots, the film would have been funnier but probably made less money. From this cheap gucci ladies watches he concluded that he would work on a film only if he had cheap gucci ladies watches complete control. He went on to write, direct, and star in Take the Money and Run, and cheap gucci ladies watches the rest, as they say, is history. Through it all he remains indifferent to cheap gucci ladies watches commercial success except insofar as that each film be sufficiently successful to cheap gucci ladies watches enable him to find someone willing to cheap gucci ladies watches invest in the next project. The day Woody completes a film, he puts it cheap gucci ladies watches behind him and sets to work on the new one. As I write this, with Woody a cheap gucci ladies watches week away from his 76th birthday, the 2012 film, Nero Fiddled, with a cast that includes Ellen Page, Penélope Cruz, Alec Baldwin, Roberto Benigni, Judy Davis, and cheap gucci ladies watches Woody himself, is in post-production. I look forward to it.

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