But I now watch Manhattan and see a pathetic, overblown Allen literally feeding lines to his fellow actors to give him some smarmy comeback that never fails to show how intellectually superior he is.
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Perhaps it's the irony of his Chaplin-like dalliances with young women that have set me against him. Perhaps my recent viewing of Wild Man Blues has hipped me to what an whining, pampered egomaniac Mr. One classic scene after another signals the height of Allen's art in this hilarious masterwork. I watched the latter first and it charmed my socks off again. I recently purchased copies of Manhattan and Annie Hall. I was a proscribed Woody fan and although I still like a few of his movies, this is no longer one of them, on recent review. I used to hold this film as somewhat of a sacred cow when I first saw it in 1979. Regardless, Isaac may be able to rationalize events after they happen, no matter what those events are. An Isaac/Mary coupling may complicate matters even more with Yale being mutually in their lives. They do become friends with the potential of becoming more than just friends as she knows that being the "other woman" in Yale's life is not a long term role that she wants. Although Isaac's first impression of Mary is that she is a pretentious intellectual, he falls for her.
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His life has the potential to be even more tragicomical when he meets journalist Mary Wilkie, the mistress of his best friend, college professor Yale Pollack. Largely because of their differences a big part of which is due to their ages, he does not see a long term future with her. The one somewhat positive aspect of his life is that he is dating a young woman named Tracy, although she is only seventeen and still in high school.
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He is paying two alimonies, his second ex-wife, Jill Davis, a lesbian, who is writing her own tell-all book of their acrimonious split. He has just quit his job as a hack writer for a bad television comedy, he, beyond the ten second rush of endorphins during the actual act of quitting, now regretting the decision, especially as he isn't sure he can live off his book writing career. Forty-two year old Isaac Davis has a romanticized view of his hometown, New York City, most specifically Manhattan, as channeled through the lead character in the first book he is writing, despite his own Manhattan-based life being more of a tragicomedy.