----------------------------Original message---------------------------- >----------------------------Original message---------------------------- >Don't forget that Woody Allen has credited both Buster Keaton and Bob Hope >(!) as his primary influences in performances. The Hope idea sounds peculiar >until you look at Hope's work in the late '30's, '40's and fifties. An >amazing influence. > >Gene Stavis, School of Visual Arts - NYC I must echo Gene Stavis vis a vis Allen and Bob Hope. I feel that this is a major lacunae in my section on Allen in AMERICAN-JEWISH FILMMAKERS. I certainly mention Keaton, Chaplin, Bergman (!), Fellini, Chekhov, Ibsen, the Marx Bros.et. al., but Allen himself has acclaimed Bob Hope, and a recent viewing of CASANOVA'S BIG NIGHT (1954; the film is absolutely hysterical, by the way!) was a revelation in terms of understanding the Allen persona, especially in films like SLEEPER and LOVE AND DEATH (which are probably Allen's most purely funny). DD _____________________________________ David Desser,UIUC Cinema Studies 2109 FLB/707 S. Mathews, Urbana, IL 61801 217/244-2705