WOODY ALLEN’S TEA PARTY RANT: Whether it’s the Republican bashing in 1996’s Everybody Says I Love You*, or Woody’s soon to be released film, whose sclerotic sucker punch Kyle Smith of the New York Post details at his blog, if Woody’s onscreen mouthpieces have a political meltdown, you know the GOP has recently taken one or more houses of Congress. That’s a very minor, if delicious incentive for the Tea Party and the rest of the GOP next year.

* Which yes, I saw. Believe it or not, I didn’t completely bail on Woody until after The Curse of the Jade Scorpion in the summer of 2001.