Jack The Scribbler

11 things that make Isaac Davis’ life worth living in Woody Allen movie, Manhattan

Screen grab of Manhattan's characters driving out of New York in what appears to be a really cool Porsche 356

1) Groucho Marx

2) Willie Mays

3) Second movement of Jupiter symphony

4) Louis Armstrong’s Potatohead blues

5) Swedish movies

6) Sentimental education by [Gustave] Flaubert

7) Marlon Brando

8) Frank Sinatra

9) Apples and Pears by [Paul] Cezanne

10) Crabs at Sam Wo’s (A Chinese restaurant on 813 Washington Street in Manhattan) [See: Sam Wo]

11) Tracy’s face (Tracy being the girlfriend of Davis, a 17-year-old high-school student played by Mariel Hemingway)

— as spoken into a microphone attached to a cassette tape recorder by Davis, played by Woody Allen, while making notes about a short story he planned to write regarding “people in Manhattan who are constantly creating neurotic problems for themselves.” [See: Manhattan The Movie]