Allen, Woody

Allen, Woody, Without Feathers Yor s Ballantine Books reissue edition, 1990). 

Allen, Woody Deconstructing Harry 1998 Dawkins, 1985, pi 13 Zohar Bereshith 37b Dawkins, 1985, ppl 14-117... 

Allen, Woody. The Girls of Casino Royale. Playboy, February 1967. 

Despite Proust s serpentine sentences, many people do revere his work and use his name as a symbol of genius. Woody Allen s short story The Whore of Mensa describes a man who craves the company of a brilliant sexy woman. The man says that he can meet all the bimbos in the world, but what he really wants is a young woman who, for a price, will come to his bedroom to discuss Proust with him ... 

S S CONTENTS Preface, C. Allen Bush. Methods in Macromo-lecular Crystallography, Andrew J. Howard and Thomas L. Poulos. Circular Dichroism and Conformation of Unordered Polypeptides, Robert W. Woody. Luminescence Studies with Horse Liver Dehydrogenase Information on the Structure, Dynamics, Transitions and Interactions of this Enzyme, Maurice R. Eftink. Surface-Enhanced Resonance Raman Scattering (SERRS) Spectroscopy A Probe of Biomolecular Structure and Bonding at Surfaces, Therese M. Cotton, Jae-Ho Kim and Randall E. Holt. Three-Dimensional Conformations of Complex Carbohydrates, C. Allen Bush and Perse-veranda Cagas. Index. 

Oxidation of pentynediol 119 by Mn02 followed by interaction with p-TSA led to acetylenic derivative 120 that possesses extremely strong and diffusive violet and freesia, raspberry, woody, odors similar to )S-ionone. But the odor of allene derivative 122, also prepared from diol 119 by dehydration with LiAIH4 and further oxidation with Mn02, was rather unpleasant (85LA950). 

In Woody Allen s comedy film Sleeper, doctors in the distant future comment on how hot fudge sundaes were eventually found to be health food. In a turn suggesting that life does in fact sometimes imitate art, research for the last decade has focused on the heart-health benefits of dark chocolate. 

I love the scene in the Woody Allen film Sleeper in which a physician in the distant future makes the observation that In ancient times, people believed that hot fudge sundaes were bad for health. Can you imagine Well, I m not quite ready to advocate those sundaes to promote a healthy heart, but the cocoa that goes into the fudge Yup, it s really good for you, your heart, and your blood pressure. Lurking in the dusty medical libraries are about 150 articles published between 1996 and 2005, all extolling the benefits of chocolate and cocoa. How sweet is that ... 

Characters in Woody Allen movies evidently find psychoanalysis a good investment because it provides them with something to talk about, but that is another matter. 

W Woody Allen, Britney Spears, Caroline Kennedy (Moon in Aquarius)... 

In the words of Woody Allen Know yourself, accept yourself and get on with life. °° We shall look more closely at the love-right in Chapter 18. 

The less they shot, the more they left themselves open to media specnlation, a fact Woody Allen allnded to before production wrapped. As one of the many writers and performers who pitched in on the intermittently promising, yet ultimately un inly rebus that was finally released in the spring of 1967, Woody Allen felt obliged to place the film in a class by itself (Anoitymous, 1966) This is not only a satire. This is a crazy, for better or worse, work of art, one in which no less than an atomic blast conld stave off the flood of nominal Bonds, unleashed to fill the vacuum left by Sellers abandoned experiment... 

Anonymous. Open End Interview with Woody Allen, Time 6 55. London Columbia Pictures, 1%6. 

This chapter explores the idea that the masculinities of James Bond and Woody Allen, two emblematic, highly stylized, extreme cinematic male characters, exist in dialectical relationship to one another. The two first appeared on the motion picture screen in the same period. Bond in 1962, and Allen in 1965, and continue to "have legs" well into the present day. With the exception of one early "crossover" film. Casino Royale in 1967, where Allen takes on the role of James Bond s eponymous envious nephew, the two operate antonomonsly, one an extreme fantasy of hyper-mascnlinity, the other continnonsly parodying the desire to perform that fantasy and showing the absnrd failnres made in the attempt. 

In order to understand the dialectic process more thoroughly, Marx says that, we are necessarily forced to examine minutely what men were like... what were their respective needs, their productive forces, their mode of production, the raw materials of their production... To get to the bottom of all these questions—what is this but to draw up the real, profane history of men. ..and to present these men as both the authors and the actors of their own drama (Marx, 2001 [1849] 223). We will examine how James Bond s and Woody Allen s characters express masculinity through what they need and consume, what they produce in their work, and what their raw materials are including habits and appearance, actions and words, and of course, their gadgets and toys. 

The villains, by contrast, are not handsome. Dr. No has no hands. Amic Goldfinger is fat and sweaty. In From Russia With Love, Rosa Klebb looks, well, a lot like Woody Allen, up to and including the glasses. 

Of course James Bond is a character in an ongoing extremely profitable series of films, and what this chapter posits as Bond s antithesis—Woody Allen— is a hnman being who has made a series of... 

Marx (Karl, not Groncho), in his Critiqne of Hegel s Dialectic lays the gronndwork for the possibility of Woody Allen s work, when he notes that the antithetical position, is not yet sure of itself, still burdened with its opposite, donbtful of itself and thus needing proof, and not demonstrated by the fact of its own existence (Marx, 2001 [1849] 221). Allen s is a masculinity beset with anxiety. The symbols which Bond wears or adopts with unconscious ease, are, for Woody Allen s characters, sources of neurosis, fear, humiliation, and public failure. 

In the first two feature films Woody Allen wrote. What s New Pussycat (1965) and What s Up Tiger Lily (1966), the reaction to James Bond is explicit. In his third film Casino Royale (1967), where was hired as an actor, he ad-libbed many of his lines, he actually played Janies Bond, or rather his nephew Jimmy. There he defines himself in reaction to his feelings of inferiority toward his uncle. In What s New Pussycat , Dr. No s Ursula Andress, while wearing a snakesldn body suit, falls, ala Goldfinger, out of the sky. She parachutes into the lead character s car. Later in a crowded hotel room, the therapist Dr. Fassbender is embracing Andress when his wife conies in. To excuse his behavior, he says to her, This is a personal friend of James Bond. ... 

Gambling is also not Allen s forte. In What s New Pussycat , Woody Allen describes a date with a woman named Tempest O Brien, We were playing strip poker. She had me down to my shorts and I fainted from the... 

Unlike in James Bond films, women do not follow Woody Allen with their eyes. The front of manliness falls quickly. In Sleeper, in the woods at night, after he says that Luna Schlosser (Diane Keaton) has notMng to be scared of when he s with her, he quickly adds, startled, What was that noise He has to seduce women, with self-deprecating humor and insult. Later, when he meets the woman who will be his first wife (m Annie Hall) he says to her quickly, You re New York Jewish left wing liberal intellectual who went to West Brandeis University and socialist summer camps... Stop me before I make a complete imbecile of myself She replies, No that was wonderful, I love being reduced to a cultural stereotype, and their relationsMp begins. 

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