Vanity Fair Redux: Woody Allen's mystery NYT reviewers
Far more of an eyebrow raise than Kate Moss’ nipples is the curious case of the nameless NYT writers vilified in Peter Biskind’s piece on Woody Allen. Biskind references a “venomous front-page piece by The New York Times” with a “snarky, gloves-off tone,” one which seemed deliberately positioned as a takedown, seen by horrified Allen friends and fans as “a stoning in the public square.” At one time, writes Biskind, Allen had been the darling of NYT film critic Vincent Canby; now the NYT was placing front and center a piece:
so vitriolic that even some people at the paper blanched.
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