Allen, the absurd

The Indian Express of July 1, 2007 has reproduced Adam Cohen’s article from the New York Times titled "He is Allen the absurd.”

Cohen refers to Woody Allen’s comic prose saying: "In Thus Ate Zarathustra, Allen insists that the great question of philosophy remains: If life is meaningless, what can be done about alphabet soup?” Allen’s title is a spoof on Nietzsche’s Thus Spake Zarathustra and instead of trivializing an ancient religion he knows nothing about, he would be well advised to stick to making inane, mostly flop films like his past disasters Bananas (1971), Everything you wanted to know about sex (1968), A midsummer night’s sex comedy (1969), Love and death (1975) and Annie Hall (1977), to mention a few. His brand of humor would not even make a hyena laugh!

Let’s not go anywhere near his sexual relationship (and subsequent marriage) with his partner Mia Farrow’s adopted daughter Soon-yi Previn — that’s his personal life. But Allen has to be told in no uncertain terms to back off from anything even remotely connected to Zarathushtra.

RUBY LILAOWALA