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January 09, 2006
Allen Trivia Not the Worst Way to Pretend You Are Still Working
I cannot quite decide what I find more unnerving about The Guardian's new Woody Allen career quiz--whether it is the reality that I did not know Allen's personal favorite among his 36 films, or if it was the writer's reference to Allen as "Brooklyn's own Ingmar Bergman." I mean, can Brooklyn even have an Ingmar Bergman? The whole Jew vs. Lutheran thing alone seems to trip me up. But then there are the sweaters, the mistresses, the atheism, the Sven Nykvist links... Fine. I suppose it will pass.
Speaking of "pass," this quiz is more bar trivia than Bar Exam. For example:
6. The girl who played Woody Allen's teenage girlfriend in Manhattan is the granddaughter of which great American writer?
Eugene O'Neill
Ernest Hemingway
F Scott Fitzgerald
William Faulkner
But, hey, face it--5 p.m. is still a half-hour away. How the hell else do you plan to kill another four minutes of your work day?
Posted by stvanairsdale at January 9, 2006 04:23 PM
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I got ten out of thirteen correct. This apparently earned me the princely ranking of "Stardust Memories".
Geez, what's your label if you get all the answers right? "Anything Else" (that Christina Ricci, Jason Biggs headache from 2003)?
Posted by: jfigl at January 10, 2006 06:22 AM