Posted by Howard Brazee on 07/18/06 02:25

On Mon, 17 Jul 2006 21:29:20 -0400, Derek Janssen
<ejanss@nospam.comcast.net> wrote:

>> That's why I only half-got it when it came out. The Dr. Zhivago part
>> was fine, and I didn't yet know what to expect from Woody Allen - I
>> don't "get" the neurotic New Yorker bit.
>
>Of course, it also helps to have a very specifically backgrounded
>education on Ingmar Bergman, Leo Tolstoy, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Sergei
>Eisenstein, and, Allen's openly confessed influence on the
>picture...40's/50's-solo Bob Hope. :)

All but one of these are obvious.

>Derek Janssen (any *one* of these references helpfully explained in
>detail on request)

How about giving me some Hope?

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