- Philip Roth's work, as have often been remarked, does not always translate well to the screen. Molly Young in her review over at n+1  nails an essential point about Roth's novel The Dying Animal on which the movie is based

"I notice that the men on either side of me, both alone in the theater, are crying. They wouldn't get weepy over the book. The Dying Animal, like many of [Philip] Roth's novels, is brutal. The title change suggests the nature of the adjustments involved in bringing Roth to the screen: mainly, softening the pornographic into the erotic."

- Lauren Wissot has a great all-too-short interview with actor Malcolm McDowell.

- Finally, an ice-cream mobile that rolls in style