Woody Allen turns 70 today. Richard Pryor turns 65.

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And I'm old.

Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 1 December 2005 15:02 (eighteen years ago) link

Match Point looks like it might be good.

Lars and Jagger (Ex Leon), Thursday, 1 December 2005 15:07 (eighteen years ago) link

Wait, is it your birthday, Dr. M.?

jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 1 December 2005 15:12 (eighteen years ago) link

No (mine's with Iggy Pop).

The Match Point trailer saves Woody's name for the end for shock value, after Scarlett Johanson and Jon Rhys-Meyers are seen tongue-wrestling in a rainstorm. He's making his next in the UK too -- who knew he'd go all Kubrick-exile in his dotage?

You could've gotten massive odds vs Pryor making it to 65 in the '70s.

Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 1 December 2005 15:19 (eighteen years ago) link

Well, don't his movies do much better in the UK, in terms of critical reception and also box office? I'm not totally sure about this, but he might have an easier time getting financial backing there.

Lars and Jagger (Ex Leon), Thursday, 1 December 2005 15:23 (eighteen years ago) link

Yeah, that's a big part of it.

Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 1 December 2005 15:35 (eighteen years ago) link

I saw some great grafitti in the East Village today, scrawled in white paint on a black background about a foot off the ground -

free
richard pryor

Forksclovetofu (Forksclovetofu), Friday, 2 December 2005 08:18 (eighteen years ago) link

Free? I PAID to see him at Radio City in '83!

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."

Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Friday, 2 December 2005 15:00 (eighteen years ago) link

I guess Jim Jarmusch found out the same thing.

Tuomas (Tuomas), Friday, 2 December 2005 15:05 (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."

I watched this last night too, it was very good.

Lars and Jagger (Ex Leon), Friday, 2 December 2005 15:07 (eighteen years ago) link

And no one ran any awful Pryor films, which was an excellent form of tribute as well.

Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Friday, 2 December 2005 21:07 (eighteen years ago) link

The Match Point trailer saves Woody's name for the end for shock value, after Scarlett Johanson and Jon Rhys-Meyers are seen tongue-wrestling in a rainstorm.

IIRC, the Anything Else trailer did the same, hoping to convince TV viewers that it was a cheery Ricci-Biggs romantic comedy. (I once dissuaded two teenage girls at a video store from renting it, saying I'd "heard it was bad.")

jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 2 December 2005 21:19 (eighteen years ago) link

Yeah, but that was subterfuge; here it's like AHA! didn't think the altecocker could do this, didja??

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

"altecocker"?

jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 2 December 2005 21:28 (eighteen years ago) link

Vat, you don't make vit a leetle Yiddish?

(old man)

Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Friday, 2 December 2005 21:29 (eighteen years ago) link

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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