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Into the vacuum rushes film critic Diane Jacobs. "Only his analyst," burbles the book jacket, "could possibly know Woody Allen as well as Diane Jacobs." Jacobs does, in fact, take something of the analyst's approach: dutifully "listening" to, or in this case recounting, all the content of each of...
But We Need the Eggs may nab some buyers through its more-than-explicit promise to tell a lot of Woody Allen jokes, apparently all the ones Jacobs can remember. The hint in the title--which refers to the curtain line of Allen's best-received work, Annie Hall--is...
There's nothing wrong, of course, with quoting good material--provided that it's quotable to begin with, and provided that you have a reason for quoting it. But Jacobs' chief reason for quoting Allen, other than to remind us and herself how great he is, seems to be convenience...
SUCH DISSECTION makes one painfully aware not just of Jacob's essential un funny-ness as a commentator--she takes Woody with too much desperate seriousness to get any further than a string of "this is hysterical" --but also the delicacy of the task she has taken on. If writing...
She still has a long way to go. The Reporter's night-life writer, George Christy, often requires people giving a party to pay his freelance photographers' fees in exchange for coverage in his column. The paper's recording-industry columnist, Dianne Bennett, a former Beverly Hills...