by Woody Allen
bookshelves: spring-2015, published-1972, amusing, whimsy, shortstory-shortstories-novellas, existentialism Read on April 27, 2015 Description: Here they are--some of the funniest tales and ruminations ever put into print, by one of the great comic minds of our time. From THE WHORE OF MENSA, to...
"I'd like to die among my books, like my uncle, who was found suffocated in his roll-top desk."
One of my favorite books of all time, and one of the last times that Woody Allen could actually be called funny. This collection features his plays "God" and "Death", which are hilarious ("Death" was partially remade as his movie Shadows and Fog). The urbane, intelligentsia humor is here in full for...
Well what can I say about Woody Allen? I've watched nearly all of his films, and found at least some joy in each one. He's probably my first choice for funniest contemporary filmmaker, and he truly was the natural evolution of the Grouchos and Chaplins of early cinema. But I'm not here to review him...
I did laugh a good bit, but these brief pieces are uneven. Some are well-constructed hilarity, some are just silly. Nearly a four-star book.
There is a moment around mid 1990s in which I discovered Woody Allen and at the same time lost track of everything else he subsequently did as a director (he worked quite a lot with Scarlett Johansson, didn't he?). It happened just after the release of "Bullets over Broadway". It was 1994 and I reme...
When I was a freshman in college, and my roommate was teaching me about Woody Allen, I thought The Whore of Mensa was the cleverest and funniest thing ever. Now it just makes me sad.
If you haven't already read The Whore of Mensa, then do so now! Here's a trailer:"Hi, I'm Sherry." They really knew how to appeal to your fantasies. Long, straight hair, leather bag, silver earrings, no make-up."I'm surprised you weren't stopped, walking into the hotel dressed like that," I said. "T...
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