Annie Hall

Imogine and Frances Ha, both set in New York, premiere today

We now know the really damning charge against U.S. Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor: she’s clearly a plagiarist. Today at her Senate hearing, she totally ripped off Woody Allen’s Annie Hall. The top Republican on the committee, Alabama Senator Jeff Sessions, quoted Reagan judicial appointee Miriam Cedarbaum (she was nominated at the same time Sessions was, but his nomination was rejected by the Senate; he then wound up being elected to that self-same Senate) to make a point against Sotomayor. Sotomayor replied that “my friend Judge Cedarbaum is here [in the room],” and that “we both approach judging in the same way.” Cedarbaum later told the Wall Street Journal that she agreed with Sotomayor.

This match made in Manhattan is such an obvious fit you wonder why Woody Allen didn’t think of it sooner

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