You can’t expect me to keep up with that level of charm, I’d have a heart attack.
From the 1982 calendar Kermit the Frog and Miss Piggy in Great Lovers of the Silver Screen, the Muppet couple stars as Piggy Hall and Woody Frog in the Bergmanesque masterpiece Posteriors.
(Thanks KO!)
Jonathan Glancey has written a piece for The Guardian about Woody Allen’s favourite font - Windsor-EF-Elongated, which he apparently idolised out of all proportion. The font has been used in the titles for most of the films Woody Allen has directed, including his latest - You Will Meet a Tall, Dark Stranger.
The font was originally designed by Elisha Pechey in 1905 for the Sheffield type foundry Stephenson, Blake. According to The Guardian, Allen was recommended the playful typeface by the great American typographer Ed Benguiat, who just happened to eat breakfast in the same diner as Allen. “Allen liked it, and that was that. Windsor became a signature of his films, along with old jazz tunes, thick-framed specs, fast-paced dialogue and neurosis.”
“I have no regard for that kind of ceremony. I just don’t think they know what they’re doing. When you see who wins those things — or who doesn’t win them — you can see how meaningless this Oscar thing is.” — Woody Allen
