Sondra and Sid do all the nipping here, playfully tossing insults at each other. Allen's apparent realization, at long last, that neither his diehard fans nor more agnostic viewers want to watch him paw a much younger woman does wonders.
More important, it also means Scoop isn't just another one of those narcissistic revues in which a Woody Allen-like character, sometimes played by the filmmaker himself, sometimes by an unsettling surrogate (Kenneth Branagh, Will Ferrell and so on), gobbles up the screen, the woman, our attention and our presumed love. In Scoop he has to share, and he does.
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