Luna Schlosser (played by Diane Keaton): “What do you believe in?”
Miles Monroe (played by Woody Allen): “Sex and death. Two things that come once in my lifetime. But, at least after death you're not nauseous.”—From Sleeper, written and directed by Woody Allen (1973)
Today is the 75th birthday of Woody Allen, taking him one step closer to the Grim Reaper he’s always feared even as the comic-turned-director has joked about him.
If you want to experience a less-well-known side of The Woodman, you can do worse than turn to The Nightclub Years, 1964-1968--especially his classic routine, “The Moose Story.” Or something even more exotic--his short but (to my thinking, anyway) film-saving scene as “Jimmy Bond,” the cowardly nephew of "Sir James Bond," in Casino Royale. (No, not the Daniel Craig “reboot” of the James Bond franchise, but the helter-skelter satire of said franchise from 1967.)
Howl at this YouTube excerpt of the great "Shooting Scene," as The Woodman faces, not for the last time, Death, this time in the form of a firing squad: “You can't shoot me! I have a very low threshold of death. My doctor says I can't have bullets enter my body at any time!”
this is great, mike! had never seen the clip you linked to before. must rent! what a great tribute to woody.
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Delia Lloyd
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ReplyDeleteGlad you liked the quote and clip. I wish the rest of CASINO ROYALE was as good as Woody's part of it, but...well, I won't spoil it for you. See what you think! (You'd better be a Burt Bacharach fan,though: this is the film for which he wrote "The Look of Love.")-Mike T.