--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb <no_reply@...> wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "RoryGoff" <rorygoff@> wrote: > > > > * * Many thanks, Barry! Loving time-travel as we both do, "the > > wife" and I are going to see it tonight :-) > > I think you'll enjoy it.
* * And you thought right. At least in the immediate afterglow, I would say this is my favorite Woody Allen to date, though Manhattan was right up there. But I don't recall being moved to tears by Allen before, and this one did that several times. And what a marvelous job of casting. Those *were* Papa Hemingway and Picasso and Gertrude Stein and Cole Porter and F. Scott and Zelda, and Touolouse-Lautrec... Thanks again, Barry. >Are you old enough to remember > Woody Allen's first screenplay? He didn't direct, but it > was called "What's New Pussycat." In that film he had the > hero (played by Peter O'Toole) and himself (played by... > uh...himself) sit in a Paris cafe at which Van Gogh, > Toulouse-Lautrec, and other famous Parisians were also > sitting. So this fantasy has been with him for a long > time. * * And thanks too for this morsel -- I have not seen the whole movie yet, but I have gotten as far as that great cafe scene. Loved Van Gogh's bandaged ear!
