JM: I came upon a selection of sentences
extracted from the award-winning screenplay of Woody Allen's "Manhattan"
(1979) at:
The dialogue seems a bit different from the one
that was quoted, but there is a Nabokov sighting, indeed (bits and pieces
below):
II'm... I'm older than her father. Can you
believe that? I'm dating a girl wherein I can beat up her
father. That's the first time that ever occurred in my life. When it comes
to relationships, I'm the winner of the August Strindberg
Award.
..................................................
- What
do you do, Tracy?
- I go to high
school.
Oh, really. Really. Somewhere
Nabokov is smiling, if you know what I
mean.
LeWitt is overrated. In fact, he may be a candidate for the academy.
....Mary and I have invented the Academy of the Overrated for such notables
as...- Gustav Mahler, Isak Dinesen and Carl Jung.
- Scott
Fitzgerald.
- Lenny Bruce. Can't forget him, can
we?
- How about Norman Mailer?