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Whither Woody?

Woody Allen may well be the funniest man in America, give or take Ramsey Clark. The old master himself, Groucho Marx, says Allen is the greatest, bar none. No one who saw Woody’s Bananas last year emerged from the theater without pains in the side from laughing. But his recent Play It Again, Sam was inferior to Bananas, and his current R-rated Everything You’ve Always Wanted To Know about Sex but Were Afraid To Ask is, through much of its ninety minutes, a monumental bore.