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   From: jneibaur@wi.rr.com   
      
   in article f354f363.0401141356.4671699@posting.google.com, Rich Forman at   
   rforman1@optonline.net wrote on 1/14/04 3:56 PM:   
      
   > I disagree with the   
   > idea that "Annie" hasn't aged well, it still seems very funny to me   
   > when I see bits and pieces of it nowadays (have seen it so many times   
   > over the years that if I see it on tv while I'm switching around, I'm   
   > content to just kind of bask in it for a few minutes).  The whole   
   > Christopher Walken sequence, or Woody's ride in the VW bug with Diane   
   > Keaton ("what is this, a sandwich?"), Paul Simon's smarmy record   
   > producer, what about their conversation with the subtitles of what   
   > they're really thinking?  Come on - hilarious stuff, the makings of a   
   > great, all-time classic, comedy.   
      
   I certainly think it is very funny.  But also believe it has dated.  It   
   presents relationships and lifestyles that are very much a part of that era.   
   Younger adults may not see it the same way as I do (I was in my twenties   
   when it came out).   
      
   JN   
      
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