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Article: 'Celebrity': Bad Old New York; From Woody Allen,Tales of a Fallen City
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- The Washington Post
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- November 20, 1998
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At the beginning of "Celebrity" skywriting appears above an
emerald city.
"Surrender Dorothy"?
No, it reads "Help." But it's really saying: "Surrender
America."
Woody Allen's new film has a few shortcomings but it's a
heartfelt cry from what may be the last serious man left in America
as he contemplates what his native land has become. New York is no
longer Oz run by a great and powerful wizard. It's been taken over
by the wicked witches of vanity and ego, of narcissism and appetite.
And all the Munchkins want to be wicked witches, too--or at least
have their own shows.
"Celebrity" is, in fact, a movie full of wicked witches, so
political correctness demands that its misogyny be ...