Woody Allen says he'll 'never stop writing': 'It's what I do'
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}Many actors have distanced themselves from director Woody Allen. (Reuters)
Spike Lee’s two loves — apart from family — are his cinema and this city. Spike once told the Evening Standard: “New York’s the mecca of the whole world. Sports mecca, entertainment mecca. The max mecca of the whole world.”
Then, Woody Allen. I asked him what if bad publicity grows stronger and good stars get tougher and others announce louder how they won’t work with him anymore. His answer: “I’m a writer. It’s what I am. What I do. What I always will be. I’ll write. Since I continually have ideas it’ll be new ideas and I’ll write new things.”
Speaking of movies, Priyanka Chopra — whom you may know more for hitting any camera for every photo in each magazine — was to star with Chris Pratt in Universal’s “Cowboy Ninja Viking” (which sounds like a 7-year-old’s Halloween costume list). Seems the film’s been shelved.
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}In BC — back when we had bicycles, before cars — roamed sultry brunette screen siren Hedy Lamarr. Gal Gadot’s to be her in some Showtime thing.
Interstitials were tiny TV news insets that could be shoved into a broadcast to lighten, lengthen, or luster it. Now Jeffrey Katzenberg is turning what he called bite-size entertainment into full-time big business.
Soon emerging, as his p.r. gnomes informed us, from some limited-employment fog — which those p.r. gnomes don’t mention — is the not grumpy old Eddie Murphy, whose new project is titled “Grumpy Old Men.”
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}Olivia Wilde to the Hollywood Reporter about her Democrat wannabe congressperson mother, Leslie Cockburn, 66, running in wherever’s Virginia’s 5th district: “I’ll pound the pavement for her.”
Listen, here’s what they’re saying
So, before magazines disappear like phone booths, I bring you every quote I could find after it fell out of whatever open mouth:
“Westworld’s” Ed Harris: “Thandie Newton should run for office. She speaks her mind and isn’t afraid to be honest.”
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}Lake Bell on pot being legal in LA: “In the old days, I was a dabbler. Now it’s normalized in our house. We water the plants just like the tomato ones our kids play around with.”
Nick Cannon: “Why I’m here is because I can do so many things. I was put on this planet just to do what I do — entertain people.”
Ditto “Game of Thrones’ ” Peter Dinklage: “This is the role I was born to play.”
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}Les Moonves to a friend: “I’m being railroaded.”
Ted Danson, asked the same thing, said: “Let them ask about oceans. I’m working on stuff with oceans. I can babble forever about oceans.”
A Ricky Gervais tweet that got a lot of attention was about some polar bear someplace.
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}But exactly what he said, who remembers? I mean, look at it this way: How much quotable chitchat can anybody make with a polar bear?
“The Americans’ ” Matthew Rhys: “I’m proud of what we did on FX. We did it with no shark-jumping or shootouts.”
LeBron James: “I love attention. I’m not an anonymous guy.” (Like at 6-foot-8 he could — whoosh! — disappear?) “Understand, I’m an only child. I enjoy people.”
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}At Bobby Van’s West 45th Street restaurant, two gents loudly conversing through petit filet mignon and french fries: “If ‘con’ is the opposite of ‘pro,’ should we say CONgress is the opposite of PROgress?”
Only in New York, kids, only in New York.
This article originally appeared on Page Six.