January 22, 2004

DOWN WITH WOODY I: Last

DOWN WITH WOODY I: Last night I watched the most recent Woody Allen movie, "Anything Else." Pretty weak, despite a few good one-liners, "Anything Else" is a semi-remake of "Annie Hall," only with the Annie character (Christina Ricci) as a pill-popping psycho as opposed to merely being "flighty." Jason Biggs plays the Allen stand-in, though Allen's in it too, as a loony "urban survivalist."
One moment that made me laugh, however, was when Biggs meets Ricci for the first time and asks where she went to school, and she says (you guessed it) "Brandeis." Now Allen has been putting Brandeis references into his films for 30 years, and usually he has used the device to establish female characters as rich and/or smart, in order to make the Allen character look better when they eventually sleep with him. But this is the first time to my knowledge that Woody has slapped the Brandeis tag on an outright psychopath.

Posted by Stephen Silver at January 22, 2004 10:30 PM
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