TIME.com: People


	May 6, 2003

CAROL ROSEGG

WOODY ALLEN GOES THROUGH A NEW STAGE

If you're wondering why WOODY ALLEN isn't holding a movie camera, that's because for the first time he's directing a play, his own Writer's Block, which opens off-Broadway next week. Details about the production are scarce. "I'm the wife of a dentist, living in Connecticut," says actress BEBE NEUWIRTH. "It's sort of a living-room sex farce." So what's it like working with the 67-year-old auteur? "He speaks very simply," says Neuwirth. "There's nothing very fancy going on. There's no intellectual conceptual bull____ going on." God knows, Lilith would never stand for that.
— Lev Grossman


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