In the past, if your goal in life was to run a retail company, you wanted your biography to open with a scene of you manning the sales floor or schlepping boxes in a warehouse.
THE first scene of "You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger", Woody Allen's newest film, brings us Helena Gemma Joness), a frumpy woman in a London taxi cab en route to visit a psychic.
DAN MCGINN: In Comedian, the documentary that you did a while ago, there's a scene of you before a show and it's striking how nervous you seem even though you've had so much preparation, so much success.
Joe does come across as rather Dan-like — nerdy, in love with a blonde girl at first sight, mostly harmless — in the first scene of "You," during which Beck browses the bookstore where he works.
We were being interviewed by a local paper called the LA Weekly, and the writer asked me: So what do you call this new scene of you and the Bangs, and Rain Parade and the Dream Syndicate?
"The writer asked me: 'So, what do you call this new scene of you and the Bangs [later the Bangles], and the Rain Parade and the Dream Syndicate?" And I said: 'Oh, it's the Paisley Underground.' I didn't think much of it – it was just an off-the-cuff remark.
