{"id":57123,"date":"2012-08-08T00:11:07","date_gmt":"2012-08-08T04:11:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=57123"},"modified":"2015-03-23T12:30:50","modified_gmt":"2015-03-23T16:30:50","slug":"mitchell-fain-presents-part-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=57123","title":{"rendered":"Mitchell Fain Presents: Part 2"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nMitchell and me, yet again in the photo booth at Lounge Ax, a music club on Fullerton in Chicago which is, sadly, no longer there.<\/p>\n

I am pleased to present to you the second part of the marathon conversation Mitchell and I recently had, stretched out over two phone calls, going over the List of Names I had prepared in advance. Here is Part 1<\/a>, where we covered Justin Timberlake, Lena Horne, Doris Day, Jill Clayburgh, Cary Grant, and Don Rickles. Below, please find Part 2. Enjoy. And thank you, Mitchell.<\/i><\/p>\n

WOODY ALLEN<\/strong><\/big><\/p>\n

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\nSheila O’Malley:<\/big> One word.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Mitchell Fain:<\/strong><\/big> Death. <\/p>\n

SOM:<\/big> What?<\/strong><\/p>\n

MF:<\/strong><\/big> Death.<\/p>\n

SOM:<\/big> Death?<\/strong><\/p>\n

MF:<\/strong><\/big> Death.<\/p>\n

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\nSOM:<\/big> Why do you say that?<\/strong><\/p>\n

MF:<\/strong><\/big> I just watched that American Masters documentary<\/a> about Woody Allen and the part that blew me away, that I’m still reeling from: Woody Allen was telling a story about how when he was 5 someone in his family told him that we all die, and he was so horrified by it, and then you realize that his entire body of work has been his sole reaction to the fact that we’re all gonna die. I was watching it with David, and we stopped it, and I was like, “My God, the rest of his life has been an exploration of that” and I referenced a certain scene from Annie Hall<\/em>. It’s a flashback and little Alvy is at a psychologist’s with his mother and the mother is typically brilliantly Jewish with her handbag, and she says, “Alvy, tell the doctor what you told me” and Alvy says, “The universe is expanding, we’ll all explode, we’ll all be gone.” The mother yells, “WHAT IS THAT YOUR BUSINESS?” <\/p>\n

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