This Week in Stage and Film: Woody Allen and Wacky Movies

That Sleazy FeelingDear Woody Allen,It might be easier to enjoy which is a truly beautiful movie, if either your character weren't dating a 17-year-old in the movie or if you hadn't married your stepdaughter in real life. Either would have done fine. But we still watch it, because the score is perfect and Meryl Streep and Diane Keaton give great performances and ... fine. Fine. You're brilliant. You happy? Where's the popcorn?� American City Diner, 5532 Connecticut Ave. NW, Tue., Nov. 23, 8:30 p.m. free; 202-244-1949. (Friendship Heights)Doing Good"Extra-Ordinary Life" is the kind of documentary that gives everybody hope for humanity ? it films the results of a program that helps girls in the D.C. foster system travel to South Africa to help impoverished children there. The program does local work as well, but the BET documentary focuses on its international efforts.� Lincoln Theater, 1215 U St. NW; Mon., Nov. 22, 6 p.m., free; 202-328-6000. (U St.-Cardozo)Lots of LaughsThough you'd think would have been enough of a commemoration of the life of comedienne Fanny Brice, someone looked at that musical and though So they created a one-woman show playing in Rosslyn through this weekend. Luckily Brice was staggeringly talented and funny, so if you have to spend a whole evening with one person, she's a good choice.� Rosslyn Spectrum, 1611 N. Kent St., Arlington; through Nov. 27; 703-998-4555. (Rosslyn)Inside Your MindWe love that the Washington Psychtronic Film Society is screening movies at The Passenger now ? the bar's retro, neighborhood vibe gels perfectly with the weird drive-in quality of WPFS' movies. This week isa bizarre '70s rock musical version of As opposed to the bizarre '80s version of which became an international sensation and is far too popular to be a movie screened by the WPFS.� The Passenger, 1021 7th St. NW; Tue., Nov. 23, 8 p.m., free; Wpfs.org. (Mt. Vernon Square)

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