Word: sleepers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...scene is the Winthrop-Mather tackle football game of 1975, Year 1 of the Winthrop intramural dynasty. A minute remains with Winthrop down by six. Quarterback Diamond Jim Durham, in one of his last mentally stable moments (he decided to get married a few months later), calls the "sleeper" play. As the team huddles up, players on the sidelines start calling madly that there are twelve men in the huddle, although there are really the legal eleven...
...Annie Hall, Allen combines the zaniness of the cut-and-paste technique he used in Love and Death with an integrated story line, as in Sleeper and Play It Again, Sam. The film works through a double set of flashbacks. Beginning with Allen monologuing about his view of life, it jumps back and forth between scenes of Singer's childhood and immaturity, and the depiction of his relationship with Annie. Annie Hall has its share of typical Woody Allen humor--of New York, psychoanalysis and sex jokes--but between laughs, it contains his most complete statement so far about what...
...which goes to show that the self-pity is still very much present. Allen has simply managed to turn it into highly successful entertainment. Annie Hall is, above all, an immensely funny film. Granted, it lacks both the sustained hilarity of Sleeper and the combination of farce and parody which characterized Love and Death. Then again, in Annie Hall, Allen doesn't need to go as far away in space as Russia, or as far away in time as several thousand years A.D. He can score points off the present without ever straying from his psychoanalyst's couch...
...their shoes before they enter--the floor is spongy and feels dreamy to walk on. The sleeping subject behind the glass has his brain and body activity constantly monitored, and readings are displayed on a large screen next to him. He is the highlight of the exhibit--a real sleeper...
Mutual Jitters. Deciding to be scared together, Keaton and Allen set up housekeeping in New York City, and she went on to star in the movie version of Sam, as well as two subsequent Allen films, Sleeper and Love and Death. Aside from the mutual jitters, it was a case of opposites attracting: he was a stereotypical New Yorker and she was a model Southern Californian. "When I first met her," Allen remembers, "she was a real hayseed, the kind who would chew eight sticks of gum at a time. I talked to her on the phone once when...