Happy Birthday, Woody Allen!

[TahitiNut]

Poll question: Happy Birthday, Woody Allen!

He's 69 today! Your birthday message would be ...?

[Beware the Beast Man]

1. Happy Birthday, Woody!

Big fan, big fan...

[TahitiNut]

2. Sax or sex?

:evilgrin:

[ChavezSpeakstheTruth]

3. Happy Birthday you clarineting fool!

Zelig is my favorite "mockumentary"

[terrya]

4. I might be the only one who likes his earlier stuff.

"Bananas" "Take the Money and Run" "Love and Death" "Sleeper". They weren't as serious as his later films, but they're hilarious.

[redqueen]

6. You're so not

I love those, too!

[asthmaticeog]

8. No man, I totally love the old stuff, too!

My family full of elderly Jews instilled a love in me of all things quasi-Hebraically funny -- from loopy geniuses (genii?) like Woody Allen and Shelly Berman to the shittiest Catskills hacks. And the Woodman's the KING - ever read "The Whore of Mensa?" Unfuckwithably brilliant.

It surprises me that he's 69, though - I'd have thought older.

[ChavezSpeakstheTruth]

20. "quasi-Hebraically funny"? - Is that like Garry Shandling's entire ouvre?

[asthmaticeog]

27. And Richard Lewis's

except that Lewis isn't a Jew! He's MAD frontin'!

[ChavezSpeakstheTruth]

35. Would Leonard Nimoy be Quasi-Hebraicly dramatic?

[asthmaticeog]

36. Yes.

That "Live Long and Prosper" hand gesture of his is actually an ancient Judaic priestly benediction.

[ChavezSpeakstheTruth]

37. I thought it was Levitic looking!

[TahitiNut]

39. Ohhh! Somebody got it!

Color me pleased! :silly:

It was introduced by Leonard Nimoy in his character of Mr. Spock and is drawn directly from the benedictory gesture made with both hands by a Kohen (priest in Judaism, a descendant of Aaron) during the priestly blessing (Hebrew: Birkath Kohanim). The Kohanim recite a blessing while performing this "gesture", and the other congregrant respond with Amens.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gesture#Live_long_and_prosper

[asthmaticeog]

40. My Rabbi when I was a little kid was an honest-to-goodness Koheyn.

He used that benediction all the time. Later, in my teens, when I got hip to Trek, I couldn't really help but notice the gesture.

[TahitiNut]

42. Well, as a gentile, I'm especially pleased.

I long ago saw it as the letter 'shin'(?) ... and a benediction I'd only vaguely recalled seeing as a guest at Temple with a close friend.

I thought I was being obscure. :silly:

ש

[terrya]

38. And how does Jerry Seinfeld fit in?

Semi-quasi-Hebraically?

[miss_kitty]

43. Shelly Berman

'Franz Kafka on the Telephone'. Funniest. Shit. Ever. My parents would howl listening to that, also Mike Nichols and Elaine May and Stan Frieberg. I grew up on that.

Gotta find me the Whore of Mensa. I'll thankyou for the recommendation, even though you are young.

[smirkymonkey]

17. You aren't alone.

I pretty much like ONLY his earlier stuff, he gets too preachy and self-absorbed in many of his later films. After Annie Hall, it all pretty much went downhill w/ a few exceptions.

The four above that you mentioned are my favorites!

[miss_kitty]

5. Happy Birthday!

Sleeper. I laugh my ass off. Everytime I watch it stoned.

OOOh and Take the Money and Run. Great movie!

Many Happy Returns of the day.

[CO Liberal]

7. My Greeting Would Be....

...Eat shit, bark at the moon, and die a slow and tortuous death, you perverted scumbag!!!

[redqueen]

11. Oooh we're all so shocked.

:eyes:

[asthmaticeog]

12. We know.

[miss_kitty]

16. Wow! does someone in this thread

HATE Woody Allen? Something about his ex's adopted daughter, now his wife? What's THAT about?

I never heard of such a thing on DU!

:evilgrin:

[asthmaticeog]

18. Heaven forfend!

But I wouldn't know of such things -- maybe I'm just an ignorant teenager. O8)

[miss_kitty]

21. I had to reply to yours you whippersnapper

because while they hate the criminal, the crime was laughed at-instant ignore in my world. OoooooooooooooH! feel the flames? It's gettin hot in heere!

:evilgrin:

[asthmaticeog]

24. It's a "Hate the playa, not the game" thing.

:evilgrin:

[miss_kitty]

28. Perfect. Analogy.

IMHO.

You young people are a danger with your quick wits and other stuff as well...

:evilgrin:

[asthmaticeog]

29. My secret is,

I'm actually TWO 17-year-olds. ;)

[tigereye]

44. oh

of which variety? OR would that be varieties? ;)

[realisticphish]

41. ROTFL

nice


:hippie: THe Incorrigible Democrat

[Donkeyboy75]

15. I don't get it.

Do you like Woody Allen?

:shrug:

Or are you suggesting some perverted role playing game to celebrate his birthday?

[CO Liberal]

26. I'm Not "Suggesting" Anything

I'm stating the plain and simple fact that I feel that the world would be a much better place without that perverted scumbag known as Woody Allen.

And this will be my last post on the subject in this thread. So don't bother replying to this message - I'm not gonna be responsible for another flamefest.

[ChavezSpeakstheTruth]

31. This is a party, not a flamefest! Join in!

:party:

You have to admit Sleeper was funny!

[redqueen]

32. YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY!

:party:

[ChavezSpeakstheTruth]

22. Whoa - thats pretty damned harsh!

[Beware the Beast Man]

34. You must be a big Gary Glitter fan!

[arwalden]

9. I Love His Movies!

[underpants]

14. especially the early funny ones

-Stardust Memories

[Donkeyboy75]

10. Wonder what Soon-Yi

and Woody will do to celebrate their 69th??? :shrug:

[ChavezSpeakstheTruth]

23. Yeah - thats got to be coming soon!

[dolo amber]

13. I bet he has Korean for dinner

:evilgrin:

[Donkeyboy75]

19. No, I'm pretty sure that

Fuk Sum Nao is Vietnamese

[ChavezSpeakstheTruth]

30. Is it what about

Sum Yun Gal?

[miss_kitty]

33. I thought it was Sum Yung Gal

or is that too too obvious?

[ChavezSpeakstheTruth]

25. Do they make a version of sushi?

[dean_dem]

45. Great movies! Just stay away from little girls!

[MikeG]

46. Happy Birthday Child Molester.

[TahitiNut]

47. She's 34 years old. (Hardly a 'child'.)

[MikeG]

49. She was his stepdaughter. He's a pig.

[TahitiNut]

50. No, she wasn't Woody and Mia never married, afaik.

Soon Yi Previn was/is the adopted daughter of Mia and Andre Previn.

[TahitiNut]

48. Live long and prosper.

[Wat_Tyler]

51. IT'S WOODY ALLEN'S BIRTHDAY? OMG! HE'S 69?

BUT HE LOOKS SO YOUNG!

[miss_kitty]

52. I think your caps lock is stuck

I was wondering where you were...watching the coverage of our fearless leader talking down to your entire country, no doubt

Woody Allen made some good movies! Happy Birthday Woody Allen, filmmaker and raconteur!