Sick and longing for New York

When you're lying in bed sick, there's nothing better than flipping channels to find a Woody Allen marathon. When watching "Love and Death," I was reminded of Woody's admiration of the Marx Brothers. It's intelligent slapstick. "Manhattan" followed, which carries the best intro to any film. The words of Woody Allen dubbed over Gershwin's "Rhapsody in Blue" to a montage of some of the best visual clips of old New York:

"He was as tough and romantic as the city he loved. Beneath his black-rimmed glasses was the coiled sexual power of a jungle cat. New York was his town,and it always would be...”

Doesn't get much better than this.