This
is the funniest Woody Allen movie
in years! It's funny like his early movies. Allen essentially plays
himself. He writes books about his life and the people in it, and
gets into trouble doing it. When his real life mistress complains
that his recent book was obviously about them, he protests that it's
just "loosely based" on real life. She replies, yeah sure,
"you changed your wife's name from Jane to Janet." Then
he accidentally calls her Leslie — the name in the book —
and she screams that her name is Lucy.
Some other funny
lines:
Allen trying to talk Lucy out of shooting him, tries to elicit sympathy:
"I squandered everything I had on shrinks and lawyers and whores."
Trying to settle
down a friend who is nervous on a visit to the doctor: "There's
nothing wrong with science. Between air conditioning and the Pope,
I'll take air conditioning."
When his wife
(Kirstie Alley) finds out he's been cheating on her, she screams "you're
telling me that every week for the last four months you've been with
her in the hotel?" Allen replies, "that's crazy, of course
not — I rented an apartment."
His very Jewish
sister says to him "your whole life is nihilism, cynicism, sarcasm
and orgasm." Allen replies, "in France I could run on that
slogan and win."
Sister: "you're
a self-hating Jew." Allen: "I may hate myself but not because
I'm Jewish."
After paying $200
for a hooker's services, he talks her into taking a trip with him
the next day by offering to pay her $500 for the day. When she agrees,
he pulls out $500 cash to pay her. She asks how does he have all this
cash. Allen: "I always keep hooker money around because once
I paid by check and the IRS killed me."
To me, this is
classic Woody Allen. Funny stuff.
—
marty
