Eric Weinstein

I've never investigated it, but that's... Have you ever seen... Everybody talks about Eyes Wide Shut now.

You notice that nobody talks about Crimes and Misdemeanors?

Where Woody Allen was directly in his orbit?

God, I don't even know if I've seen that movie.

There is a scene where Martin Landau and Jerry Orbach's characters are a pair of brothers.

I think that they only meet on screen once.

And Martin Landau is having an affair and the woman has decided that she has rights.

And Martin Landau is a very wealthy ophthalmologist or something like that.

And he has a brother who's a starker.

Starker being the Yiddish word for a tough guy.

And it's one of the most, can we find Jerry Orbach, Martin Landau crimes and misdemeanors is the most blood curdling.

So well done.

Well, if they're only in one scene together, they'll be at a... I haven't seen it in ages, but my memory is that they're at a house walking around a pool, and then they walk inside to the pool house, and there's a resentment that the brother who's in the life...

is only called to the house occasionally, right?

And it's this way in which the genteel and the people who can get things done that you're not allowed to do within the law are connected.

And so Woody Allen is clearly writing this from personal experience.

He has some interaction between being in high society and knowing Starkers.

And I actually knew his old – Woody Allen's old producer is the father of a friend of mine.

So a guy named Jack Grossberg.

And Jack Grossberg was an epitome of a tough Jew in Hollywood who would deal with the teamsters or when there was a labor dispute.