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Friday, August 19, 2016 Vol. 9 No. 67
“Café Society” Woody Allen Returns To His Roots In “Café Society” Film By Jack Lyons Theatre and Film Critic In a full disclosure confession up front, I have been a fan of Allen Konigsberg, aka Woody Allen, since I saw him perform standup comedy routines in clubs in Chicago, and of course, on TV. When he moved from standup to TV and film writing,
to acting, and directing in the late 60s and 70s, I rarely missed a live comedy gig or a film he was connected with. For me, Woody is the quintessential New York comedy writer/ performer and the standard bearer of East Coast humor. He has, let us say, always had a thorny relationship with LA, and West Coast culture, which he claimed never suited his lifestyle. He even passed up accepting one of his three writing/director
By Desert Star Staff US Olympic swimmer Ryan Lochte “fabricated” a story about being robbed at gunpoint in Rio de Janeiro, a Brazilian police official has said. A surveillance video shows that the swimmer and his teammates damaged a suburban gas station. The incident actually involved the US Olympians breaking down a bathroom door at a gas station, and paying for the damages, the official – who has direct knowledge of the investigation, but was not authorized to speak publicly – told the Associated Press on Thursday.
Lochte and three of his teammates – Jack Conger, Gunnar Bentz and Jimmy Feigen – had stopped at a gas station in the Rio suburb of Barra da Tijuca on Sunday morning, the official said. The outside bathroom was locked, and the swimmers “pushed on the door and broke it.” The gas station owner told O Globo newspaper that the swimmers urinated on his shop and “vandalized” it. A security guard confronted the Olympians, the official said. He was armed, but never drew the
Oscars at ceremonies held in Hollywood years ago. As an embedded New York playwright Allen, however, had to share the comedy crown with the King of comedy playwriting and movies, the nonpareil Neil Simon, eight years his senior. Simon was more of a traditional linear writer who turned his life story into countless award-winning plays and movies. Allen was the newbie champion of the
nebbish, nerdy, Jewish social misfit of the counter-culture 60s and 70s. His writing was fresh, funny, and resonated big time with a younger society who was enjoying the benefits of the sexual revolution and the freedom to explore every aspect of American life to its fullest. “Café Society” written and directed by Allen, once again, takes us on a nostalgic journey backward in time to the 1930’s. Gorgeously photographed
by Academy Award- winning cinematographer Vittorio Storaro who makes the New York romantic sequences a picture-perfect post card truly ‘made for a boy and a girl’, as the lyrics say in Lorenz Hart and Richard Rodgers’ iconic song tribute to the Big Apple in “I’ll Take Manhattan”. Although the movie is stacked with solid actors and Continues on Page 8
US swimmers ‘fabricated’ robbery story, damaged gas station
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