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Woody’s Crustacean Revenge on Bernie

Director dusts off his satiric skills in the New Yorker

Imagine if two Bernie Madoff Ponzi scheme victims who’d dropped dead after learning they were bankrupt were reincarnated as lobsters and found themselves able to wreak revenge on the swindler in a seafood restaurant on the Upper East Side of New York City.  Woody Allen dusts off his satiric skills and completes the tale in the current New Yorker.  (Spoiler: the lobsters win.)   
 
The New Yorker

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