Mary-Louise Parker in Naked in New York (1993)

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Here's your cultural aptitude quiz for the day. Life is Beautiful is to Robin Williams as Naked in New York is to .....? The answer is Woody Allen. Just as Life is Beautiful is a Robin Williams movie that doesn't actually star or have anything to do with Robin Williams, Naked in New York is a Woody Allen movie that actually has nothing at all to do with Woody Allen. Neurotic, sexually clumsy, easily embarrassed, red-headed, Jewish New York writer has some raw writing talent, but not the social skills or appearance to market himself. He also tries to work out a relationship with a cute protestant girl whose lecherous boss, competing for her favors, is the suave and unbearably handsome Timothy Dalton. The narrator tells the story in flashback while looking directly at the camera and talking to the audience. Throughout the movie, he has conversations with imaginary characters in his past or elsewhere. No further comment.

The girlfriend is Mary-Louise Parker, who did an all-too-brief topless scene. I wish they would get Grand Canyon onto DVD so I could do that scene, which was her only meaningful nudity that I can remember. (She also did one or two fleeting frames in last year's Goodbye Lover, but she looks much different now, almost like a different person.)

Written by: Scoopy...Scoopy.net