My Encounter With Mandeep

It has been a long, long time since I've written a real blog. Since the pandemic days, in fact. But this warrants it. So there I was, going about my usual afternoon busywork at the AVN compound, when I hear a call from downstairs: "Hello?" I thought I heard my co-worker moving in that direction to see what was up, but then a few minutes later: "Hello?" Looked like it was gonna be up to me. So down the stairs I plodded, and immediately found myself face-to-face with a short, pudgy, balding man seemingly of Indian descent, whom I will call "Mandeep" for the purposes of discretion.  "Hello sir, is there somebody I can talk to here? This is the AVN?" he asked me. "Well yes, what do you need?" I asked. "I have traveled so far, I just need to talk with somebody who can help me," he implored. "OK ... what's happening? What's your question?" I persisted. "I want to find out how can I get into the industry?...
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Star Wars/Woody Day














Today marks a red letter occurrence in the movie dweeb-o-sphere that I don't think has ever transpired before: The simultaneous debuts of a new Star Wars film and a new Woody Allen film.

For certain, the two have only happened within the same year only six times, the very first of which established that year, 1977, as the one I will probably always regard as film's greatest. Star Wars and Annie Hall were the two movies in question, and I've always said that had I been old enough at the time to ... well, see movies at all, let alone appreciate them, my head may very well have just exploded and now I'd be walking around with little to no head.

Annie Hall, for a little extra movie trivia, went on to win Best Picture that year, angering many teenage boys and grown men with the developmental inner beings of teenage boys, but truly the proper choice, I believe, if I absolutely had to be nailed down to one.

So the releases today of Star Wars: The Clone Wars and Vicky Cristina Barcelona don't quite present the same dilemma as above, nor bode the same significance. In fact, Clone Wars seems almost like something I have to go watch purely out of fanboy obligation, rather than actual anticipation. But watch it I will, sometime this weekend. Vicky Cristina Barcelona is what I will go see tonight, and that one, I'm genuinely excited about. Doesn't hurt that Scarlett Johansson and Penélope Cruz star in it.

By the way, there's an interview with Woody Allen in the new LA Weekly, if that intrigues you at all.

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