Woody Allen turns 70 today. Richard Pryor turns 65.

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his films aren't doing particularly well in the UK either. "Anything Else" and "Hollywood Ending" didn't even get cinema releases over here. "Melinda and Melinda" got one and sank after a week or so.

― jed_ (jed), Friday, 2 December 2005 21:34 (eighteen years ago) link

I wonder if Anything Else is as bad as I remember. I know Ricci's performance was dreadful, but Woody was really funny in it.

― Erick Dampier is better than Shaq (miloaukerman), Friday, 2 December 2005 21:38 (eighteen years ago) link

Good reviews will help. I saw nearly all his films on opening day for 20 years, but I skipped those last 3.

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Friday, 2 December 2005 21:39 (eighteen years ago) link

TCM ran a 2-year-old Woody interview/retro last night, and I did laugh aloud at least 10 times. I also liked this recent confession: "All the crap they tell you about... getting joy and having a kind of wisdom in your golden years - it's all tripe. I've gained no insight, no mellowing. I would make the same mistakes again."

Weird. He said the EXACT SAME THING in the Peter Biskind interview whcih ran in last month's Vanity Fair.

― Alfred Soto (Alfred Soto), Friday, 2 December 2005 21:46 (eighteen years ago) link

Well, it's not weird -- I took it from the VF piece, it wasn't in the TCM show.

Poor Rich not getting equal time on this thread. Is Pryor still sentient?

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Friday, 2 December 2005 21:49 (eighteen years ago) link

yesterday my brother turned 35.

― like a circle in a spiral, like a wheel within a wheel (Jody Beth Rosen), Friday, 2 December 2005 22:21 (eighteen years ago) link

it was bette midler's birthday too!

― like a circle in a spiral, like a wheel within a wheel (Jody Beth Rosen), Friday, 2 December 2005 22:22 (eighteen years ago) link

two years pass...

73.

― jaymc, Monday, 1 December 2008 14:27 (fifteen years ago) link

Poor Rich not getting equal time on this thread. Is Pryor still sentient?

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Friday, December 2, 2005 3:49 PM (2 years ago)

Creepily enough, Richard Pryor died eight days after this question. Conspiracy?

― mh, Monday, 1 December 2008 14:44 (fifteen years ago) link

it was bette midler's birthday too!

and sarah silverman's birthday. and my half-brother's!

― battered beauties (get bent), Monday, 1 December 2008 15:27 (fifteen years ago) link

bette is 63, sarah is 38.

― battered beauties (get bent), Monday, 1 December 2008 15:28 (fifteen years ago) link

pryor pwns thread

― ice cr?m, Monday, 1 December 2008 15:30 (fifteen years ago) link

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