{"id":161,"date":"2006-03-27T14:12:09","date_gmt":"2006-03-27T19:12:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bitpost.com\/blog\/2006\/03\/27\/woody-allen-philoscophizin\/"},"modified":"2011-04-16T00:21:56","modified_gmt":"2011-04-16T04:21:56","slug":"woody-allen-philoscophizin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bitpost.com\/blog\/2006\/woody-allen-philoscophizin\/","title":{"rendered":"9.0 Crimes and Misdemeanors"},"content":{"rendered":"

We seem to watch a Woody Allen movie every other week or so, and almost always love them – OK, we recently fell asleep on a late late night of watching “Life and Death” but fortunately woke up in time to nearly vomit with laughter at the ending scene (no spoilers allowed, sorry). There is so much to enjoy in his stuff – outlandish slapstick physical comedy that would make Benny Hill and Mel Brooks proud, unmatched philosophical perspectives – no one else is even in the ballpark<\/strong> on that one, fantastic characters all over the place, and plenty of poignancy and irony.<\/p>\n

He’s nearly always center-stage, so if you are intolerant of his philosophically-driven cynicism, hypochondria and paranoia, or outright goofiness, sure it might not be your thing. (Ed.: he married his daughter<\/em>. Rebuttal: Celebrities are allowed a few eccentricities! Ed.: Let me repeat… his daughter!<\/em> Rebuttal reprise: I just said to Andrea “there must be a word to describe old guys that like younger women” and got the irony-laden response: “yeah normal”) But personally he’s made my life just a little bit richer. Don’t miss this one in particular – it boasts a central story on the inevitability of justice, reaching Poe-like intensity before… well, like I said, no spoilers.<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We seem to watch a Woody Allen movie every other week or so, and almost always love them – OK, we recently fell asleep on a late late night of watching “Life and Death” but fortunately woke up in time to nearly vomit with laughter at the ending scene (no spoilers allowed, sorry). There is … Continue reading 9.0 Crimes and Misdemeanors<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[9,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-161","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-only-cool-movies","category-reviews"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9M0Zg-2B","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":70,"url":"https:\/\/bitpost.com\/blog\/2003\/good-times\/","url_meta":{"origin":161,"position":0},"title":"Return to the Homeland","author":"m","date":"March 11, 2003","format":false,"excerpt":"The family and I had a great time in sunny Florida seeing all the Miller relatives. Saturday was beach day. I swam with 5 or 6 dolphins off the coast of Sanibel Island's Lighthouse beach - that alone was worth the trip! Lily, our youngest pup, decided to take a\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Daily Life"","block_context":{"text":"Daily Life","link":"https:\/\/bitpost.com\/blog\/category\/daily-life\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":252,"url":"https:\/\/bitpost.com\/blog\/2007\/post-pax-mike-is-back\/","url_meta":{"origin":161,"position":1},"title":"Post-PAX Mike is back!","author":"m","date":"August 28, 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"My friend Gary has been waiting for PAX to end, so I will get back to reality and get my head out of the PAX cloudcover. It was worth it... here's my PAX post... if you're not a gamer, \"move on\"... zomg pax so r0xx0rz!! ITSATRAP!! OK so we were\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "All My Rowdy Friends"","block_context":{"text":"All My Rowdy Friends","link":"https:\/\/bitpost.com\/blog\/category\/all-my-rowdy-friends\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":259,"url":"https:\/\/bitpost.com\/blog\/2007\/another-canine-crosses-our-path\/","url_meta":{"origin":161,"position":2},"title":"Another canine “crosses our path”","author":"m","date":"December 18, 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"We have a family tenet that we'll try to give a helping hand to any dog that \"crosses our path\". And so when mom Grammy and the girls saw a three-legged dog and a small puppy running around on the way back from horseback riding, on a speedy road with\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "All My Rowdy Friends"","block_context":{"text":"All My Rowdy Friends","link":"https:\/\/bitpost.com\/blog\/category\/all-my-rowdy-friends\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":154,"url":"https:\/\/bitpost.com\/blog\/2005\/getting-to-be-a-tradition\/","url_meta":{"origin":161,"position":3},"title":"Y Princesses Fall Outing","author":"m","date":"November 3, 2005","format":false,"excerpt":"Tomorrow is our family fall camping trip, the Gillespies are joining us - we can't wait. We are cracking down on Wesley's dominance personality. Soccer is wrapping up, tournaments in another week. The girls are staying up late to watch The Amazing Race with us. My friend Keith Lea is\u2026","rel":"","context":"Similar post","block_context":{"text":"Similar post","link":""},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":86,"url":"https:\/\/bitpost.com\/blog\/2003\/cross-that-off-the-lifetime-to-do-list\/","url_meta":{"origin":161,"position":4},"title":"Leo Kottke in the house","author":"m","date":"August 11, 2003","format":false,"excerpt":"We all took naps around 3 o'clock on Saturday while one of the kids from the neighborhood cut my lawn. (thanks Kelly!) Then we got up around 5 and gathered up the troops. We took a blanket and a picnic dinner to the NC Art Museum's amphitheater to hear the\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Daily Life"","block_context":{"text":"Daily Life","link":"https:\/\/bitpost.com\/blog\/category\/daily-life\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":94,"url":"https:\/\/bitpost.com\/blog\/2004\/fortune-and-glory\/","url_meta":{"origin":161,"position":5},"title":"Heroes Incorporated","author":"m","date":"January 2, 2004","format":false,"excerpt":"Sammy, a good friend of mine from way, way, way back in the salad days of high school, made his fortune, and nearly lost his sanity, producing The Two Towers video game for Electronic Arts (yes, \"that\" TTT). Hurling himself from the jaws of the corporate grind, he \"quit the\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "All My Rowdy Friends"","block_context":{"text":"All My Rowdy Friends","link":"https:\/\/bitpost.com\/blog\/category\/all-my-rowdy-friends\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bitpost.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bitpost.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bitpost.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bitpost.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bitpost.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=161"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bitpost.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1093,"href":"https:\/\/bitpost.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161\/revisions\/1093"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bitpost.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bitpost.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bitpost.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}