All the way through to 2023’s “Book Club: The Next Chapter” and 2024’s “Summer Camp,” the actress was still the same galvanic woman who played Annie Hall, Kay Corleone and Erica from “Something’s Gotta Give.” What was so blissfully unique about her was the way the actress was, at the same time, a free spirit and an upright authority figure; a font of intellect, wit and charm who was a scream when she’d finally let loose. As with Allen, the actress ideally countered Jack Nicholson’s Casanova who likes ‘em young in 2003’s “Something’s Gotta Give.” And she was the most grounded member of 1996’s “The First Wives Club,” opposite loonier Bette Midler and Goldie Hawn, even as her character Annie’s outwardly gorgeous life movingly crumbled to pieces.
Author: Johnny Oleksinski
Published at: 2025-10-11 21:08:42
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