David Rakoff has just finished his three - calendar week web log over atNextbook.orgafter seeing 28 Woody Allen films in 21 days at the Film Forum in SOHO . Sorry I did n’t send you over earlier because the posts are touching and , for the most part , fun reading " ¦ a misstep through the past . YOUR yesteryear , if you ’re anything like me and carried these films around with you in your back pouch .
I used to live about two blocks from the Film Forum and remember want , for year , actually , that they ’d bring in a Woody Allen festival of this sort . So what happens ? NYC and I go through a messy divorce and the city celebrate its newfound exemption by sleeping with every film Woody ever made . Thanks New York ! For all those years I ante up your exorbitant taxes , put up with your otter - sized bum in my apartment , had to walk home from work in the rain because of a awash underpass , and watched as my sett goon became a shopping mall , thanks for pay me back like this .
So to lionise the end of the fete , I thought I ’d dish out some Woody Allen trivia — a quiz for the Allen buffs in the_floss . The answers you ’ll find after the start :
1 ) Which is the correct list of things that Isaac thought made life story worth living inManhattan?a ) Harpo Marx , the Yankees , mental_floss magazineb ) Willie Mays , Potato Head Blues , Edward Goreyc ) Tracy ’s face , Einstein ’s vitamin E = mc2 , Groucho Marxd ) Groucho Marx , the apples and pear by Cezanne , the crabs at Sam Wo’s2 ) InZelig , Woody Allen was photograph with what President?a ) Calvin Coolidgeb ) Teddy Rooseveltc ) Woodrow Wilsond ) George Washington3 ) InAnnie Hall , Annie has a spider in her toilet the size of?a ) her motherb ) a Town carc ) a Winnebagod ) a Buicke ) Edward Gorey
Answers : 1 = d , 2 = a , 3 = d
