![]() ![]() Of frequently very funny, too-often bland and ultimately frustrating essays. Permeates his fourth collection of comic pieces - his previous books were ''Barrel Fever'' (1994), ''Naked'' (1997) and ''Holidays on Ice'' (1997) - an assortment In fact, as it turns out, Ali was not unbeatable, and WoodyĪllen continues to be extremely successful with girls.Īlong with Jerry Seinfeld, the Clintons and almost everybody else in show business, the anecdotalist, public radio personality and child of the 60's David Sedaris has clearly pitched his tent in the Allen camp. We have become a nation of public braggarts,ĭivided either into the camp that noisily inflates its abilities, or the one that just as noisily broadcasts its charming - and usually phony - ineptness. ![]() But 40 years on, America's public face has been made over into a sort of Muhammad Allen. That as Muhammad Ali his public persona would be so enduring and influential. At about the same time, Cassius Clay probably had little idea ![]() Hen he revolutionized nightclub routines in the 1960's by turning the comic spotlight on his own neuroses instead of his mother-in-law'sĭriving skills, there was probably no way that Woody Allen could have predicted, even in his wildest nightmares, the importance of his sociological legacy.
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