you'll always be alvy to me.

so i finally had the chance to listen to terry gross's interview with woody allen. it depressed me (i bet you're thinking "what doesn't depress you?") for two reasons:

1. he sounds so old now. granted, he's in his 70s, but it was still slightly shocking to hear him sound like an old grandpa.

2. he made it a point to go on and on about the fact that people think they know him because of his movies, but they really have no idea what he's actually like. he grew up in a nice neighborhood, was quite the athlete, and is not the intellectual everyone assumes he is. he failed out of college because he wasn't smart enough, not because he had too many better things to do.

truthfully, i don't think i like the real woody allen. nevermind the soon-yi business (i tend to look past such massive mistakes when it comes to celebrities), i'm not even taking that into consideration. he was just... i don't know... not what i expected (cliche, i know). i want this version of woody allen:

partially because he always made me feel better. you CAN be neurotic and crazy and cynical and depressive and funny and smart and entertaining all at once!

or not.