Take the Money and Run News

FUNNY LADY: Wanda sykes launches a new comedy/variety show "The Wanda Sykes Show" at 11 p.m. on Fox.

If you're into classic stop-motion cheese , The Golden Voyage of Sinbad is a must on Saturday for the terrific Ray Harryhausen effects, but of course check your brain at the door.

Philip French: Allen, so much at home with the mores, pretensions and idioms of his native New York, is an ugly duckling out of water in England Thursday, 15 October 2009 I've been a great admirer of Woody Allen as writer, actor and director since his debut 35 years ago with Take the Money and Run, and have enjoyed almost all of his films.

Mike: This is Mike Clark with Show Biz Radio. Today I am talking with Keith Brown, who is the director for Laurel Mill Playhouse's production of Play It Again, Sam .

One of Woody Allen's best big-screen moments is in his early classic "Take the Money and Run," when he attempts to rob a bank.

That honk of a voice. That pitch-perfect sarcasm. That mischievous twinkle of an overgrown schoolboy who can get away with anything with a hastily concocted -- hmmm, yeah, that's the ticket ! -- lie.

Funny thing about comedy. It's the truest and most enduring genre, universal and timeless in its appeal.

Remember Woody Allen's first film? It was called "Take the Money and Run." The movie was done in a semi-documentary style and chronicled thespectacularly unsuccessful efforts of Virgil Starkwell to become a major crime figure.

When people talk about Woody Allen movies in terms of his "early funny ones," what they mostly mean are Take the Money and Run , Bananas and Sleeper .

The latest film from Woody Allen brings the writer-director back to New York City with TV comic actor Larry David as a scowling curmudgeon and Evan Rachel Wood as the bright-eyed young woman who becomes his protg.

Ken Tucker ranks all 40 Woody Allen movies . I'd put "Annie Hall" first and "Crimes and Misdemeanors" second, with "Sleeper," "Take the Money and Run" and I guess "Love and Death" rounding out the top five.

That's a shame. Many of the theatre reviewers couldn't work up a great deal of enthusiasm for "Stop Messing About", the latest olde-worlde radio show to be revived in the West End.

Fans of the "Austin Powers" movie franchise will recognize one of the tunes the Washburn University Percussion Ensemble will perform Tuesday night as the theme song of those spoofs of 1960s spy films.