"....asking Woody to name-check a mere mortal like David Blaine would be like asking Ingmar Bergman to acknowledge ABBA...."
David Fellerath in today's review of Scoop, new Woody Allen's movie which, once it opens nearby, I will see out of religious and patriotic duty - and I am not talking about Johanssen here, just that even the worst Woody Allen movie is better than pretty much anything out of Hollywood in any given year.
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