Hi, I'm a long-time JM fan who has just joined the list. I just wanted to say that I heard Travelogue two days ago and it's stunning. The songs from Hejira are especially well done and the sequence on the second disc that puts The Refuge Of The Roads next to Hejira itself before going to Chinese Cafe is so beautiful and moving that it almost defies description.
On another point, Mike Pritchard says of Woody Allen "I stopped liking him after he started referring to women as 'cunts' in his movies." While I understand people taking offence at some of Allen's personal conduct, and I agree that you have every right to stop liking people for whatever reason you see fit, I simply don't buy this argument at all. I can only recall this word cropping up in Deconstructing Harry - he certainly doesn't utter the word in Celebrity because he ain't in it - but in DH he was playing a misogynistic character. He wasn't appearing as himself. Maybe you don't like that word but a lot of people use it. Its very force in the film came from it being completely unexpected from WA - proof that he still weights every word in his screenplays. Objecting to someone's movies because one character uses an offensive word just seems a bit...odd to me. Characters in Philip Roth's novels (and Roth is said to be an inspiration for the lead character in DH) use such words all the time. Should we "stop liking" him too? Recent WA films I've enjoyed include DH and the great Sweet And Lowdown but others, such as the aforementioned Celebrity, are weak indeed. Yahoo! Web Hosting - Let the expert host your site
