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I love Woody Allen. Shame on Dreamworks for trying to hide a great filmmaker.

woody allen is great and this movie actually rocked. sure, biggs sucks, but with allens dialogue its hard to screw up. and ppl say that his new movies are flopping. ha, who the hell actually liked the purple rose of cairo, or husbands and wives, or crimes and misdemeanors? not i, not i...

annie hall or bust

gigli-- you seem like a really hateful person. how can you trust a another persons word on the personal happenings of these people's lives? do you have hard proof? I feel for Mia Farrow, but everyone is capable of lying. Maybe Mia lied, maybe Woody did. To call someone a pedophile with no hard evidence is a disgusting thing in itself. As for your comment on "if it were your daughter...", if it were his or her daughter, I'm sure they would know the facts of the matter and therefore have a right to call that person a pedophile.

As for the new film.... I am going to give it a chance.

Variety's David Stratton saw ANYTHING ELSE at Venice fest --- here's his gently - some cineasts still possess a soft spot for the Woodster - dismissive review's first two paragraphs

"In his impressive body of work, Woody Allen has repeatedly depicted the battle of the sexes with humor and insight, usually playing the character buffeted by passion's ebb and flow himself. In "Anything Else," Jason Biggs plays the guy with the sexual hang-ups, who, with a confident stab at the quintessential Allen screw-up, proves there's more to life than "American Pie." The younger casting brings a freshness to the material and, with Allen as the weird mentor, there are plenty of laughs, even if the pacing's slow and the running time over-extended. A mid-range Allen, pic is sharper than his latest offerings, but very far from top form. B.O. prospects seem only marginally better than the recent Allen norm.

What's new in this Gotham-lensed comedy is a surprisingly dark element to the humor. Allen plays a sad-sack 60-year-old school teacher and would-be comic named David Dobel, who becomes increasingly obsessive as the film proceeds. With a history of mental illness, Dobel makes questionable jokes about the Holocaust, and has a fetish about being an armed survivor in what he sees as perilous times."

People were dissing Allen for years, saying he was a spent force, then he goes and makes "Sweet & Lowdown", which is a magnificient movie. And similarly I remember being years ago being disappointed by "Hannah & Her Sisters", and then a few years later "Crimes and Misdimeanors", an utter masterpiece comes out. Boom!

The truth is, Allen has always surprised us, off and on. And unless he goes senile, I'm guessing he will continue to do so. There are very, very few directors, American or otherwise, who I can say that about.

Woody Allen is the worst. Prolly the most pretentious person ever.

Career Oppurtunities was amazing! It was my first date movie, I think, maybe it was Richard Greco's "If Looks Could Kill". They are both timelss classics of the neglected early 90s teen movie genre.

Yes, Woody Allen is a mid-life-crisis-having incestuous weirdo.

But I think he should do a movie starring our friend Ben Stiller. That might be interesting to see. And Woody should not appear in one single fucking scene.

"In Allen's defense, hitting on a seventeen year old when you're forty-two doesn't make you a pedophile -- in fact, about a hundred years ago, no one would have blinked an eye at such a match."

Okay,how about hitting on a 17 year old that you helped raised for 17 years with your girlfriend and looked up to you like a father. There are photographs of him and Mia walking little Sun Yi in Central Park!!! If that doesn't make him a pedo, how about molesting your nine-year old daughter and having the babysitter CONFIRM the things you did to her? How about a 42 year old man sticking his thumb in a two-year old's mouth and telling her to suck on it? How about sticking his head in between her thighs when she was watching TV? Why did little Dylan run and hide in TERROR hwnever he came over to the house?(confirmed by several non-partisan eye witnesses).

Why "wouldn't" Mia lie? What did she have to "gain"? That book was only released after she found gyno photos of her DAUGHTER in her ex-boyfriend's HOUSE. Molestation stories about her daughters seems highly unlikely fodder for a publicity stunt!After the trial everyone already knew Woody was a scumbag, and the book wasn't called "Woody is a Dirty Rotten Scoundrel" it was her bio. In fact, the entire debacle only takes up like two chapters in the entire book.

He's a disgusting pig and you can decorate it any way you please. If it were YOUR daughter I am sure you would be singing a different tune.

the problem with this trailer is that it really makes no sense...which always portends of an awful movie (although i thought the trailer for "le divorce" was hilarious and hated the movie). but i tend to find if a trailer makes no sense, the movie is even more senseless.

BUT, maybe this is just a coverup for an actually good movie, i.e. annie hall updated, which could be hilarious.

just a devil's advocate thing though, i groaned through the whole thing.

In Allen's defense, hitting on a seventeen year old when you're forty-two doesn't make you a pedophile -- in fact, about a hundred years ago, no one would have blinked an eye at such a match.

If you wish to get bogged down in, oh, the law, it has been revealed that there was no physical evidence of any inappopriateness on Allen's part. If there was, he would have been arrested. Farrow certainly would have pressed charges.

Why would she lie? Why wouldn't she. Her own self-serving version of events in her memoir depicts her as a woman so infatuated with Allen that she ignored most of the warning signs (not of his pedophilia, but of his inability to connect with another human being on a mature level). She had no problem with that until he left her. In fact, he showed zero interest in her children (they also never lived together, which made the allegations of his "sleeping with his adopted daughter" completely false).

Allen probably isn't the nicest guy in the world, but that doesn't make him a criminal.

Oh and another thing--

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jen h. Aug 6, 2003 3:55 PM

In regards to the creepy age disparity b/w the Woodman and his leading ladies, I read an interview with Mariel Hemingway in which she said Woody would constantly come onto her during the shooting of "Manhattan" (she was 17 at the time).

Creepy, indeed. Makes me wonder about Mia's allegations.

Why would Mia LIE? Frank Sinatra offered to "take care of him" at the time of the trial but she had to play it nice, damnit. She could have spared us all from "Celebrity."

How about THIS for a Jason Biggs picture?

LOS ANGELES -- "Everyone thinks I'm Jewish," says actor Jason Biggs. The 23-year-old star of "American Pie," "Loser" and "American Pie 2" is actually an Italian-Catholic from New Jersey. But he looks like the kind of nice Jewish boy you had a crush on in Hebrew school. Which is why he keeps getting cast as such, he says.

His big break, at age 13, was playing Judd Hirsch's son in the Broadway run of "Conversations With My Father." In 1997, TV mogul Steven Bochco cast him as Robby Rosenfeld in the series, "Total Security."

In "American Pie 2," Biggs' character, Jim, gets a Jewish surname, Levenstein. "Yet again, I am playing a Jew," quips the exuberant, personable actor.

If the misconception lingers, it doesn't help that Biggs has a Jewish girlfriend, a 24-year-old writer, his first serious relationship since high school. In the year-and-a-half they've been dating, he's celebrated Shabbat and Rosh Hashanah at her parents' Los Angeles home. When she flew off to Israel in June to visit her brother, a Hebrew University of Jerusalem exchange student, Biggs tagged along. "I was definitely concerned about the political situation," he confides, "but I've always wanted to see Israel."

Hours after he flew into Lod airport, Biggs was walking in Tel Aviv when he heard a loud explosion. "When we got to our restaurant, all the Israelis were on their cell phones and suddenly they were clearing out of the place," he recalls. "Then our waiter told us there had been a suicide bombing at a discotheque less than half a mile away. It was as if the headlines had come to life."

When the shaken actor walked past the disco two days later, there was still blood on the sidewalk. "But the Israelis were getting on with their lives, so we felt, 'We must get on with our vacation,'" says Biggs, who was often approached for autographs. "They were impressed that we would show solidarity and come at a time like this to see their country."

We can call it "Passing in Seattle"

Source:

www.jewishsf.com/bk010810/etp2...

Woody Allen died and went to Hell YEARS ago with that dreckula fest "Everyone Says I love You." The good actors won't work with him anymore because he's a twisted sicko in a trench coat like the protagonist in Caleb Carr's "The Alienist" (which would make a fabulous film).He has not changed since the Sun Yi disaster, because Christina Ricci has inetercourse with this fossil (Woody) in the film! That is DISGUSTING! What is she, like, 25? Then he hires the pie molester (Jason Biggs) who SWEARS he's "not a Jew." He claims to be an "Irish Catholic" from a small Jersey town, meanwhile, he only dates Jewish chicks and his father looks like Wolf Blitzer. PUHLEASE. So let me get this straight? We have yet another pervert fantasy from Woody Allen since "Manhattan" (which was spectacular, of course--at least Ricci is OVER 18 *gag*)PASSING for a fall teen date movie. Then we have Woody Allen PASSING for a magical wizard who can make all of us forget about his psychosis. Then we have Christina Ricci PASSING for a girl whose career highlight was NOT her portrayal of Wednseday Addams (although The Opposite of Sex was passable). We have Danny DeVito PASSING once again as a guy whom we do not wish to send to a travelling circus. And finally, we have Pie Molester Biggs who still thinks a JUHJUHJUHJEW has to PASS in Hollywood. If he IS a "Catholic" he needs about a thousand Hail Mary's to save this film from flopping quicker than Sun Yi at the promise of a Happy Meal.

THUMBS DOWN!

I think that ANYTHING ELSE cast member Stockard Channing's comments at the end of this Daily News piece are more than telling....

I guess I would have been frustrated wtih a Woody focused trailer, but I wouldn't have bitched as much, since we know his shtick. I have issues thinking Christina Ricci is the new Diane Keaton. Diane seemed/is genuinely loopy. Christina, she's a brat. So Kristen, you are insane, especially since you are freaked out by my panda fixation.

If Pierce Brosnan could still play a smoldering leading man in "Die'alogue' Another Day", perhaps it is all a Baby-boomer need to see themselves as young,--- and as people are living much longer, in this country, we may be in for a long parade of this charade.

First off. Dreamworks made the woodman cut the trailer like this. They've lost tons of money on his films and cache or not. It's a business. So there's that.

Now, having seen the trailer a ton of times, I don't see the big beef. Jason Biggs IS woody and Christina Ricci is essentially Diane Keaton. I'm a huge Woody fan, although I hated the last one -- but I think this might be funny... Call me insane.

eh, I'm just one of those losers who is going to see the movie because jimmy fallon is soooooo cute!