Annie Hall – Screenplay by Woody Allen – this has been included on some of the most important lists of Best Movies, from The New York Times to Variety, you find on my blog https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/01/maybe-you-have-some-ideas-click-on-link.html a few reviews on other Allen films - 8 out of 10

 

Annie Hall – Screenplay by Woody Allen – this has been included on some of the most important lists of Best Movies, from The New York Times to Variety, you find on my blog https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/01/maybe-you-have-some-ideas-click-on-link.html a few reviews on other Allen films

 

8 out of 10

 

 

This used to be one of my favorite motion pictures, and there should not be any change, except some the innuendo, not all of it proved, yet a lot of the personal life of Woody Allen has become public in the meantime, and what with marrying the adopted daughter of his wife, seeing his films again is a different experience now

 

-          Hannah and Hers Sisters https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/02/hannah-and-her-sisters-written-directed.html is very good

 

Nevertheless, take the scenes with the children, at the beginning of Annie Hall – and for that matter, in any Woody Allen movie – you can try and be ‘funny’ about it, if it is gruesome humor, and say about the context

 

-          ‘I hope they took good care of those little people’

 

If the man was so inclined – he married this very young woman, not quite his daughter, but still, the adopted child of his wife, and they fought for so long, Woody Allen and Mia Farrow, by the way, what contrasting choices did she make, she was in a relationship, maybe the spouse of…Frank Sinatra and there is a story with that

Robert Evans wrote https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/01/the-kid-stays-in-picture-by-robert-evans.html The Kid Stays in The Picture, about his involvement in movies, as actor, producer and head of Paramount

 

-          He was the man behind The Godfather, Chinatown, Rosemary’s Baby and other great motion pictures

 

Mia Farrow has the leading role in Rosemary’s Baby, but Frank Sinatra – a chauvinist we gather – wanted her to end her participation, and abandon the movie, which she refused, and then this went on to become a big hit, commercially and with the critics, while the film Sinatra was doing tanked, hence the idea:

 

-          Mia Farrow wanted a two-page ad, on one side the takings of Rosemary’s Baby and on the other, the meagre box office of the Sinatra flop

 

Intellectuals https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/01/intellectuals-by-paul-johnson.html by Paul Johnson is a marvelous book, the author explains the fact that great people have a very dark side, Leo Tolstoy, Henrik Ibsen, Ernest Hemingway, Jean Jacques Rousseau were terrible in their private lives, especially the latter.

Ego, we could look at Annie Hall and other Woody Allen works and be tolerant, perhaps, only as I said, I cannot help but remember his penchant – euphemisms – for very young women something that he puts in his movies over, and over again

 

Some works - such as Broadway Danny Rose https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/02/broadway-danny-rose-starring-written.html - do not follow the same stereotype, nevertheless, Manhattan and others have this much older chap, who seduces the young female, and that is Allen projecting his fantasies

 

-          That is how it looks, with hindsight

 

Some thespians that have worked with him have distanced and regretted the collaboration, albeit Woody Allen was once so celebrated – Annie Hall won Best Picture, Best Screenplay, Best Director – both for Woody Allen – and Best Actress in a Leading Role, for Diane Keaton, she was so fantastic back then, only she made some really bad pictures after that

There was this story about Diane Keaton and Jack Nicholson, Warren Beatty and maybe Peter Fonda, who made a bet concerning her and their charms – I will not put it here, maybe someday, the way this Orange Emperor works, stating he will take the Panama Canal, Greenland, and yesterday, Gaza, who knows…

 

-          Maybe he will annex this place too, and then he will put me in charge

 

However, that means I have to be careful with my public notes…oh, wait, it does not work this way, the more offensive one is, the better chances to get a duchy, some domain, look at the crazy Kennedy Junior, the woman to lead the NSA, or the drunkard head of the Pentagon…

 

Now for my standard closing of the note with a question, and invitation – maybe you have a good idea on how we could make more than a million dollars with this https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/01/maybe-you-have-some-ideas-click-on-link.html – as it is, this is a unique technique, which we could promote, sell, open the Oscars show with or something and then make lots of money together, if you have the how, I have the product, I just do not know how to get the befits from it, other than the exercise per se

 

 There is also the small matter of working for AT&T – this huge company asked me to be its Representative for Romania and Bulgaria, on the Calling Card side, which meant sailing into the Black Sea wo meet the US Navy ships, travelling to Sofia, a lot of activity, using my mother’s two bedrooms flat as office and warehouse, all for the grand total of $250, raised after a lot of persuasion to the staggering $400…with retirement ahead, there are no benefits, nothing…it is a longer story, but if you can help get the mastodont to pay some dues, or have an idea how it can happen, let me know

 

As for my role in the Revolution that killed Ceausescu, a smaller Mao, there it is http://realini.blogspot.com/2022/03/realini-in-newsweek-participant-in.html

 

Some favorite quotes from To The Hermitage and other works

 

‘Fiction is infinitely preferable to real life...As long as you avoid the books of Kafka or Beckett, the everlasting plot of fiction has fewer futile experiences than the careless plot of reality...Fiction's people are fuller, deeper, cleverer, more moving than those in real life…Its actions are more intricate, illuminating, noble, profound…There are many more dramas, climaxes, romantic fulfillment, twists, turns, gratified resolutions…Unlike reality, all of this you can experience without leaving the house or even getting out of bed…What's more, books are a form of intelligent human greatness, as stories are a higher order of sense…As random life is to destiny, so stories are to great authors, who provided us with some of the highest pleasures and the most wonderful mystifications we can find…Few stories are greater than Anna Karenina, that wise epic by an often foolish author…’

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