Oh, the things you find when you're a pretty young movie star out for a night on the town.
According to World Entertainment News Network, the internet equivalent of magazines only available at grocery store checkout lines, Penelope Cruz, Scarlett Johansson, and Javier Bardem, the harem of talented folks Woody Allen has collected for his latest flick, Vicki Cristina Barcelona, were out for a night on the town in the small Spanish city of Oviedo, when they happened to discover...a bronze statue of Woody Allen. No, they weren't drunk -- or, at least, they weren't just drunk. They'd stumbled upon a statue erected by the Spanish government in 2002 after they awarded the filmmaker with the "Prince of Asturias" award for cultural acheivement. "We took pictures with the sculpture," says Cruz, "hugging it, and gave the pictures to Woody."
Which, if this interview with the Onion's AV Club is any indication, he immediately threw away. Allen, who once was so uncommunicative with the press that he may as well have been a statue himself, tells the AV Club's Scott Tobias that "My walls don't have photographs of me and the actors, I was with, or any of that stuff. If you were in my house in New York, you wouldn't know I was in the movie business. It just looks like a regular house, like the home of a lawyer or something, and I try and keep that disciplined, and just work." The Wood-man also expounds on why he chose to film in spain, what he thinks of the Knicks, and how bad -- to the exact degree -- an actor has to be before he fires him.
