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...While evidently trying to follow Duck Soup’s recipe — and borrowing from the likes of Dr Strangelove, Woody Allen’s Bananas and Armando Iannucci’s Veep — the six-part series dishes out a tepid stew of undercooked...
...Schwarzenegger notes that popular actors of the 1970s – Al Pacino, Dustin Hoffman, Woody Allen – were not big men. Nobody wanted to cast a man like him. “People were turning me down,” he recalls....
...Its oppositional attitude makes it the granddaddy of all protest songs, an inspiration to singers from Bob Dylan to Tracy Chapman....
...Look what became of Woody Allen — Baumbach’s only peer in thinking person’s New York comedy, past or present — after his first decade of uncontrolled panache....
...“You don’t know who Woody is? He has his own jet. Google him,” read one such message, referring to Mike Sherwood, co-head of Goldman Sachs International....
...Both Mr Sherwood, who joined Goldman in 1986 and is known internally as “Woody”, and Mr Evans, whose retirement was announced last month, have been seen in the past as potential successors to Lloyd Blankfein...
...This Peter Parker is an Adonis in touch with his inner Woody Allen....
...Feminists hated it because Allen’s Isaac fell in love with a 17-year-old girl, strangely ignoring that Isaac is made to look like a selfish fool, while Mariel Hemingway’s Tracy is the film’s wisest character...
...Joseph Dickerson, bank analyst at Espirito Santo and last seen on FT Alphaville quoting Woody Allen and slapping a big buy on Lloyds, reckons Santander and BBVA need additional loan loss reserves of €10bn...
...Having moved to the brokerage from Citadel last month, Joseph Dickerson is sinking his teeth into UK banks with a giant `buy’ on Lloyds and a `sell’ on RBS, in a 64-page punch of a Woody Allen-quoting research...
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