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...Bourne Supremacy?" Enthusiastic about taking his first crack at a mainstream Hollywood project, he agreed to attend a meeting at the studio later that day. Not familiar with the city--"I was a small, little European director"--he accidentally took a taxi to the nearby Universal Studios Theme Park instead of the studio. Realizing his mistake, "I turned into Jason Bourne's overweight older brother, trying to get from the Universal Studios Theme Park to Universal Studios...
...strong influence on Allen's work: from his New Yorker parody of The Seventh Seal ("Death Knocks," in which the hero plays not chess with Death but gin rummy) to a cameo by the Grim Reaper in Love and Death and, more deeply, the inspiration for the theme and tone of Interiors and Another Woman. Shooting his new film in Spain, Allen took time to talk about Bergman with TIME's Richard Corliss...
...strong influence on Allen's work: from his New Yorker parody of The Seventh Seal, "Death Knocks" (in which the hero plays not chess with Death but gin rummy) to a cameo by a Grim Reaper in Love and Death and, more deeply, the inspiration for the theme and tone of Interiors and Another Woman...
...unresolved culture wars waged by their parents and grandparents. On one side, concern for boys is waved off as a mere "backlash against the women's movement," as two writers declared dismissively in the Washington Post last year. The opposing side views any divergence from the crisis theme as male-bashing feminism...
...think I am, owning a pool? Or worse: Who do the neighbors think I think I am? Thanks to the theme from The Beverly Hillbillies, swimmin' pools will always be synonymous with movie stars--a sign of self-indulgence, of idle-rich ennui. When Liv Ullmann said, "Hollywood is loneliness beside the swimming pool," she wasn't paying the town a compliment...