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Woody Allen is notoriously reluctant to reveal much about his movies in advance, but the actors who signed on for Everyone Says I Love You were in for an especially rude shock. A couple of weeks after being cast, they got a call from music arranger Dick Hyman asking if he could send over their songs. Their what? Allen had neglected to tell them that they had enlisted for a musical...
...asked three people to leave because they were Yale people antagonizing Harvard people," he said. "They were being rude...
...must presume that in printing Shahrukh Malik's rude description of John Kennedy Jr.'s bride, Carolyn Bessette [LETTERS, Oct. 28], your intention was to show that the gentleman had absolutely no taste in women. At the risk of offending our sensibilities, he certainly succeeded--and how! What came through more pungently than anything else, however, was that Malik has even less manners than taste. IMOHIMI AIG-IMOUKHUEDE Lagos
...that this novel, her third, is simply a misstep. Perhaps she has gone to the well once too often: A Regular Guy has the same theme as much of her earlier work--a child searching for a lost father--and it lacks the energy and rude gusto of Anywhere but Here. As for Owens, he loses his company, but in the end he is doing just fine on a diet of nuts, fruits and cauliflower, a gentler superman...
...unruly story lines did not go unremarked upon by early ecclesiastics trying to create systems of Scripture-based faith. St. Jerome, who translated the Word from Hebrew into Latin, grumbled that many of the narratives were "rude and repellent." A medieval rabbi, borrowing an image from the story of Noah's drunken disarray after the Flood (9: 21), suggested that "as dutiful children, let us cover the nakedness of our fathers in the cloak of favorable interpretation." Something of the sort eventually occurred. The Christian church developed a set of interpretations according to which the patriarchs prefigure Christians as heroes...