Spike Lee and Woody Allen at Knicks Games

A Virgil Texas Joint

Dialogue from the Lost Basketball Scene in Annie Hall

Knicks ball - out of bounds - Jackson to Bradley - shot! No good! Rebound - Kierkegaard. Passes to Nietzsche - fast break to Kafka! Top of the key - it’s Kafka and Alvy - all alone - they’re both gripped with anxiety - and guilt - and neither can shoot! Now Earl Monroe steals it! And the Knicks have a four on two

Ralph Rosenblum’s (Annie Hall’s editor) recollection of the film’s lost basketball scene, from When the Shooting Stops… The Cutting Begins. (Da Capo Press: 1986).

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