No one who saw her as the oddball heroine of "Annie Hall" can forget her trilling "La deda, la deda, " chasing lobsters around a kitchen or singing "Seems Like Old Times" shakily, and endearingly.
This week a lacklustre domestic season was drawing to a tarnished close, as lawyers for Vasco da Gama, a Rio de Janeiro club, battled to bend the rules to ensure that Edmundo, their temperamental striker, could play in the second leg of the league-championship final, despite having been sent off in the first game on December 14th.