Finding Woody
(WorldNews Entertainment)

Many moons ago, during a balmy Singapore evening, I won an informal quiz conducted by a venerable quiz master from Kuala Lumpur. My friend, who was on the losing side, felt the sting of the loss so much that he relocated to Kurosawa land. His parting shot was that my narrow win was due to a preponderance of questions on Woody Allen, a filmmaker he dismissed as an Ingmar Bergman rip-off. While I admit that some of Woody´s more serious work may have been...