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2005-06-28 Home Front: Politix

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Posted by Steve 2005-06-28 12:59|| || Front Page|| [8 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 What have the Romans ever given us?

Posted by Omise Sholuting9208 2005-06-28 13:17|| 2005-06-28 13:17|| Front Page Top

#2 And Hollywood wonders why it's in such a slump.

A studied unwillingness to tackle the relevant topics of the day is not a sign of sophistication; it's a sign of intellectual flaccidity (and I'm sure that's not the only thing flaccid about Mr. Allen).

Don't build it, and they most assuredly won't come.

Posted by Dreadnought 2005-06-28 13:17|| 2005-06-28 13:17|| Front Page Top

#3 When Woody goes to the Great Beyond, not only will the lights on Broadway be dimmed, but all the barely legal Asian porn sites will go offline for one minute...

Posted by tu3031 2005-06-28 13:28|| 2005-06-28 13:28|| Front Page Top

#4 What's the problem? Woody doesn't think he has anything worthwhile to say about 9/11. I'm sure he's right. I just wish Michael Moore had made the same decision.

Posted by VAMark 2005-06-28 14:22|| 2005-06-28 14:22|| Front Page Top

#5 Some sketch comedy show--think it was In Living Color--once did a parody commercial in which Woody was making a pitch for his new charity, "Date the Children."

Posted by Mike 2005-06-28 15:08|| 2005-06-28 15:08|| Front Page Top

#6 Woody, if history is too complex for you to grasp, just make up your own version of it, like Ridley Scott.

Posted by Spacemuppet 2005-06-28 15:31|| 2005-06-28 15:31|| Front Page Top

#7 Sleeper? Not political? That was his best stuff!

Posted by Hyper">Hyper 2005-06-28 18:56|| 2005-06-28 18:56|| Front Page Top

#8 Woody is another exemplar of why it is important pour les artistes to shuddup and play le guitar.

Two of my favorite films are Allenkraft : Zelig, and Radio Days. The latter being an inadvertant paean to the beauty of immigrant embrace of and assimilation into America. A kind of goofball "Avalon." The former is what it is, a manifestation of Allen's narcissism, yes, but extraordinarily funny, and technically amazing for the time of its creation. Yes, we could do without Susan Sontag's participation in the faux documentary, but it is best to not speak ill of the dead.

And before any of you get too worked up with my giving Allen a pass for some his work, I am a registered Cro-Magnon Branch Rightie.

former is a wonderful

Posted by Red Lief 2005-06-28 23:18|| 2005-06-28 23:18|| Front Page Top

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