The Big Apple Bites Back

He may have waxed lyrical about his home city in Manhattan and Annie Hall but Woody Allen isn't the most popular Big Apple inhabitant around, if a survey by the New Yorker Press is anything to go by. Along with his fellow movie luminaries Harvey Weinstein, Ethan Hawke and Michael Moore, the comedic gnome has just been voted one of the 50 Most Loathsome New Yorkers. While Ben Affleck received hundreds of votes from the NY public but was deemed to be too much a "Hollywood asshole" to be included in the poll, Allen and his mates were deemed "loathsome in an especially New York way." Coming in at an impressive number 16 in the chart, Allen was castigated for not being "in the same area code as funny since Love and Death. Oh, and for becoming "a sickening, unrepetant elitist whose movies are one gigantic exercise in bourgeois team-buiding." Ouch. Miramax heavie, Harvey Weinstein, makes his appearance at number 23 for being the 'worst-behaved party guest in the history of the human race' while Ethan Hawke is hailed as a "master of empty intellectualism as both an author and director" at number 37. But the real venom is withheld for Oscar winner and activist Michael Moore. Beating even Allen in the loathsome stakes at chart position 3, Moore is