Everyone Says I Love You

Year:	1996
Director:	Woody Allen
Woody is:	Joe
Also starring:	Alan Alda: Bob Drew Barrymore: Skylar Lukas Haas: Scott Goldie Hawn: Steffi Gaby Hoffman: Lane Natasha Lyonne: DJ Edward Norton: Holden Natalie Portman: Laura Julia Roberts: Von Tim Roth: Charles Ferry David Ogden Stiers: Holden's Father
Written by:	Woody Allen
Release dates:	Video: August 12 (US)

Reviews

• Siskel&Ebert: Gene's vote: Down. Roger's vote: Up
  If you have Shockware plug-in, you can listen to their reviews.
• John D. Baldwin's review.
• Andrew's review

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Trivia

• Drew Barrimore refused to sing in this film. Someone else had to sing her lyrics... [Kasper]
• Weekly Variety (Dec. 2-8, 1996) ran a highly complimentary review of "Everyone Says I Love You," and predicted that it will be Woody's biggest hit since "Hannah and Her Sisters." [Jim]
• The title "Everyone Says I Love You" comes from a song sung (and whistled) by The Marx Brothers in "Horsefeathers:"

  "Everyone says I love you
  But just what they say it for I never knew
  It's just inviting trouble for the poor sucker who
  Says I love you."
  

  The song also appears in the Broadway version of "Animal Crackers," but with different lyrics:

  Everyone Says I Love You/The great big mosquito and the bee sting too/ The fly when he gets stuck on the fly paper too says I Love You/ Every time the cow says moo/She makes the bull-a very happy too/ The rooster when he hollers cock-a-doodle-doodle-doo says I Love You/ There are only 8 little letters in this phrase, you'll find/ But they mean a lot more than all the other words combined/ Everyone, no matter who/The guy over 80 and the kid of two/ The preacher on the pulpit and the man in the pew says I Love You/ Christopher Columbus he write the Queen of Spain a very nice little note/ He said "How I Love You, my queen" and then he gets himself a bigger, bigger boat/Why you no do what Columbus do/ When he's a come in 1492/He said to Pocahontas "Acki Vachi Vachi Voo,"/ That means "You little son of a gun, I Love You."

• Tracey Ullman and Liv Tyler were cut from the finished film.

Music

Just You, Just Me
My Baby Just Cares For Me
I'm a Dreamer
Makin' Whoopie
I'm Thru with Love
All My Life
Cuddle Up a Little Closer
Looking At You
If I Had You
Enjoy Yourself
Chiquita Banana
Hooray for Captain Spaulding
Everyone Says I Love You

Hooray for Captain Spaulding
The African explorer
(Did somone call me 'schnorrer'?)
Hooray hooray hooray!

He went into the jungle
Where all the monkeys throw nuts
(If I stay here I go nuts)
Hooray hooray hooray!

He put all his reliance
In courage and defiance
And risked his life for science
Hey Hey!

He is the only white man
Who covered every acre
(I think try and make her)
Hooray hooray hoorah!

Miscellaneous

Joanna told me Aug 11:

I just saw a screening of Allen's new musical - Everybody Says I Love You. It was good (I am a real fan), but not very typical of Woody's work. It was suprisingly light without the deep neurotic discussions we all know, love, and expect form his work. Julia Roberts is not his daughter in the film, rather she is his girlfriend. Everyone in the film sings, and their performances are not that bad (with the exception of Julia Roberts who has no singing ability whatsoever). Allen is a divorced writer who lives in Paris and is still friendly with his ex-wife (Goldie) and her present husband (Alda) who live in Manhattan. They are five kids, and their parentage is unclear. On the whole, I enjoyed the movie and I recommend it to anyone who is a musical fan (regardless of your feelings on Woody).

Allen Musical Out in Dec.
Woody Allen's comedy musical, "Everyone Says I Love You," will be released domestically in December by Miramax. Written, directed by and starring Allen, "Everyone" also features Alan Alda, Drew Barrymore, Lukas Haas, Goldie Hawn, Gaby Hoffman, Edward Norton, Natalie Portman, Julia Roberts and Tim Roth. The picture, Allen's 26th, was filmed in New York, Venice and Paris. He hinted at his new creative direction at the end of "Mighty Aphrodite" when he included a production number with a dancing Greek chorus set to "When You're Smiling."

I'm sure you've heard that before the concert could take place that the Fenice Theatre in Venice burned to the ground. (see Fenice Theater at http://www.gpnet.it/fenice/) The concert took place in another theatre but Woody was saddened to learn that this beautiful theatre burned down.

The city of Venice and other institutions world wide are gathering funds to re-build the Fenice and now Woody has offered to hold the World Premiere of his new film here in Venice.

Official press release, sent to the media on 2-23-96:
Everybody loves a good old fashioned musical and who better to bring it to the screen than Woody Allen? Yes indeed, Woody Allen's highly anticipated fall project is a modern day musical comedy called "Everybody says I Love You" starring (in alphabetical order) Alan Alda, Woody Allen, Drew Barrymore, Goldie Hawn, Gaby Hoffman, Edward Norton, Natalie Portman, Julia Roberts and Tim Roth. Alan Alda, who had wanted to do a musical for years, was thrilled when approached about the project by longtime friend and producer Jean Doumanian. Filmed on location in Paris, Venice and New York, "Everyone Says I Love You" promises to bring movie musicals back to popularity.

Woody Allen was filming the new movie at Columbia University Graduate School of Business this fall. It was a musical scene.

Yes , fans of the WoodMan...........just spent 2 glorius days with Woody, Goldie Hawn, Alan Alda, Drew Barrymore, Julia R. etc. filming the next one, due sep or oct '96 --- no title yet, Maybe the word RITZ will be in title....... filmed on beach, in the Hamptons, NY ... the master is good at throwing rocks into ocean to make them skip..... allowed me one direction, watch for beach scene, with luscious Goldie in hammock, my shadow is in scene......Alan Alda, looks great, amusing.

Woody Does Italy - Cameras rolled Sept. 11 in Venice on the Italian sequences of Woody Allen's next feature, a comedy-musical starring the director alongside Julia Roberts, Goldie Hawn and Alan Alda. The two-week stint in Venice marks Allen's second foray onto an Italian location, following scenes shot in a Sicilian resort for "Mighty Aphrodite." Despite the customary secrecy that surrounds Allen's features during production, Italian press reports give away basic plot elements. The story centers on a traditional, close-knit Jewish family with a half-crazy grandfather and an absent father. The Italian interlude features Allen and Roberts as father and daughter.

According to "Variety" (7/6/95), Judy Davis, Alan Alda, Ed Norton, Bette Midler, Drew Barrymore and Billy Crudip have joined Tim Roth and Julia Roberts in the untitled Woody Allen fall project, sources confirmed Wednesday.

Davis, who starred in Allen's Husbands and Wives for TriStar Pictures, replaces Diane Keaton, who had a scheduling conflict.

Alda worked with Allen on Crimes and Misdemeanors, and Midler, who has a cameo role in the new picture, team with Allen on Paul Mazursky's Scenes from a Mall.

Barrymore is currently in Batman Forever; Crudip's coming projects include Sleepers.

Allen's untitled fall project is executive produced by Jeanne Doumaniam and produced by Robert Greenhut. The picture is scheduled to be shot in New York and Paris in September.

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