On that front, one assumes, Mr Allen knows whereof he writes; after all, not for nothing has he remained rooted to New York.Neil LaBute seems to write plays even more regularly than Woody Allen makes films, even if "Fat Pig" at the Lucille Lortel, the latest from a dramatist with a long-standing interest in misanthropy, is not as fierce as its title might suggest.
The Merseysiders, stuck on 18 top-flight titles since their last in 1990, have only been able to watch as their fierce rivals have won title after title in just shy of two decades, and now it is United - not the Anfield club - who can lay claim to being the greatest team in English league history.
Like Dorothy Parker, Martin Amis, Ogden Nash, Calvin Trillin, Vladimir Nabokov, John Updike, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Anthony Lane, Roger Angell and E. B. White (whose "Dusk in Fierce Pajamas" supplies the title), to name just a few.
No wonder she is creeped out by Damian Lewis's fierce reading of the title character, a playwright, which wanders into unsettlingly dark corridors of obsessive love.
Lauda, then the reigning world champion, was engaged in a fierce battle for the title with Hunt, the louche golden boy of British motor racing.
(I'd prefer Cate Blanchett, in "Carol," to either, for her gestural precision, sculpted diction, and fierce stillness in the title role of Todd Haynes's film).
Others have an occasional slightness that sits awkwardly beside, say, the fierce urgency of the title essay, about Zarin's daughter's bout with a rare and mysterious disorder, possibly an autoimmune syndrome, that can cause fatal coronary complications.
By losing to rock-bottom West Brom at Old Trafford, Manchester United have handed the title to fierce rivals Manchester City with an abject, pathetic whimper.
In the alt-weekly world, competition for that title would be fierce.
Should Simpson or Scott claim the US PGA title, an already fierce debate on anchoring will intensify once again.
