I am thinking of a Woody Allen joke from one of his earlier movies. He [his character] is newly separated from his wife, and he is attempting to enter the dating game with shaky results. He goes to the Met. Mus. of Art and sees a young woman he may approach. He says, “what do you think of that painting?” She goes on and on about how depressing and black everything is. Undaunted, he asks her, “what are you doing Saturday night?” She says, “I am going to kill myself.” Without skipping a beat, Woody [character] asks, “so what are you doing Friday night?”
Benson, that IS pretty clueless about France and Woody Allen. I think it is a contest now who is more of a pariah – Woody Allen or Mel Gibson. (BTW many Europeans think that the US trying to extradite Roman Polanski was mean)
I lived in Gravesend until 5 years ago. I owned a home.
I needed to downsize, as I was stressed out from heavy travels, wife with lupus and daughter with MS. My wife doesn’t drive, so needed a place that was walkable. Also, I needed to cut down on my hellish commute to White Plains.
Benson, maybe you said it before, when I wasn’t paying attention, but I was wondering: why did you buy in Park Slope/Gowanus rather than further south in Brooklyn, or on LI or NJ or SI?
Two other Woody Allen-related thoughts came to my mind:
-I just remembered that there were some funny scenes in “Annie Hall”, in particular when Annie takes Woody to meet her midwestern family. One funny scene is when Annie’s grandmother looks at Woody Allen and visualizes him as a Hasidic Jew. The other funny scene is when he meets Annie’s brother, who was a then-unknown actor named Christopher Walken. Walken plays the ultimate Christopher Walken psycho in those scenes, and they are laugh-out loud funny.
-Woody Allen was involved in the most culturally tone-deaf production ever conceived. I’m sure everyone remembers the tension between the US and France in the run-up to the Iraq war (the latter, not the first). Remember that many folks were upset with France and they organized boycotts of anything French? France’s tourism industry took a big hit, and the French government decided that it needed to launch a good-will PR campaign in the US. Who did they sign up as their spokesperson for this campaign? Woody Allen!!!!! Talk about clueless. Yeah, I’m sure that the folks who were boycotting were really swayed by Woody.
Yes, Lech. And also they had a nuclear weapons “readiness” center, nukes ready to fire, though I knew nothing about that when I was there – I don’t know that that still exists. One thing cool about KC is that there are massive underground spaces, complete with little roads and traffic lights — cavities in the earth from quarrying granite — it is used for storage of all kinds of things including government documents.
I parked on Friday night way into the street on the next block because of a mountain of snow. Today when I went outside, my car looked like it was in the middle of the street! Everything on my block was mushy enough this afternoon to push it in with the van and park, as my mother used to say, walking distance to the curb.
Btw, Diane Keaton has “her own teeth” in that movie, before the big veneers. I think she is cute before the veneers.
Is this an ongoing New Year’s Fest?
I am thinking of a Woody Allen joke from one of his earlier movies. He [his character] is newly separated from his wife, and he is attempting to enter the dating game with shaky results. He goes to the Met. Mus. of Art and sees a young woman he may approach. He says, “what do you think of that painting?” She goes on and on about how depressing and black everything is. Undaunted, he asks her, “what are you doing Saturday night?” She says, “I am going to kill myself.” Without skipping a beat, Woody [character] asks, “so what are you doing Friday night?”
Thanks, Benson.
Benson, that IS pretty clueless about France and Woody Allen. I think it is a contest now who is more of a pariah – Woody Allen or Mel Gibson. (BTW many Europeans think that the US trying to extradite Roman Polanski was mean)
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I lived in Gravesend until 5 years ago. I owned a home.
I needed to downsize, as I was stressed out from heavy travels, wife with lupus and daughter with MS. My wife doesn’t drive, so needed a place that was walkable. Also, I needed to cut down on my hellish commute to White Plains.
Answer: Park Slope.
Benson, maybe you said it before, when I wasn’t paying attention, but I was wondering: why did you buy in Park Slope/Gowanus rather than further south in Brooklyn, or on LI or NJ or SI?
Two other Woody Allen-related thoughts came to my mind:
-I just remembered that there were some funny scenes in “Annie Hall”, in particular when Annie takes Woody to meet her midwestern family. One funny scene is when Annie’s grandmother looks at Woody Allen and visualizes him as a Hasidic Jew. The other funny scene is when he meets Annie’s brother, who was a then-unknown actor named Christopher Walken. Walken plays the ultimate Christopher Walken psycho in those scenes, and they are laugh-out loud funny.
-Woody Allen was involved in the most culturally tone-deaf production ever conceived. I’m sure everyone remembers the tension between the US and France in the run-up to the Iraq war (the latter, not the first). Remember that many folks were upset with France and they organized boycotts of anything French? France’s tourism industry took a big hit, and the French government decided that it needed to launch a good-will PR campaign in the US. Who did they sign up as their spokesperson for this campaign? Woody Allen!!!!! Talk about clueless. Yeah, I’m sure that the folks who were boycotting were really swayed by Woody.
Yes, Lech. And also they had a nuclear weapons “readiness” center, nukes ready to fire, though I knew nothing about that when I was there – I don’t know that that still exists. One thing cool about KC is that there are massive underground spaces, complete with little roads and traffic lights — cavities in the earth from quarrying granite — it is used for storage of all kinds of things including government documents.
I parked on Friday night way into the street on the next block because of a mountain of snow. Today when I went outside, my car looked like it was in the middle of the street! Everything on my block was mushy enough this afternoon to push it in with the van and park, as my mother used to say, walking distance to the curb.