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I listened to the double album of his stand-up read his short stories in the collections Without Feathers, Side Effects and Get Even. I’ve loved Woody Allen movies since forever. She begins the letter: “What’s your favorite Woody Allen film?”Īnd this is the part of it that comes home to the film lover, because I still have a favourite if not several. In 2015, the scandal was reopened when Allen’s daughter Dylan Farrow wrote an open letter to the New York Times reaffirming the allegations that her father abused her, championed by her brother Ronan Farrow (who was, incidentally, the author of the New Yorker piece which last week contributed to the exposure of Weinstein).
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When asked whether he was now living with Soo-yi (about the 13 minute mark), he replies: “She’s still at school.” He seems unable to stop repeating the word ‘school’ – obviously meaning university – for the next minute and a half. Watch this 60 Minutes interview from 1992 at the height of the scandal and see how ineptly Allen defends himself from relatively softball questions, attacking Mia Farrow and claiming she was out for vengeance. In fact, presiding Judge Elliott Wilk found Allen’s behaviour to his daughter to be “ grossly inappropriate and that measures must be taken to protect her”. But it is also true that the DA did think there was a case to answer and the legal custody battles for the children in no way exonerated Allen of wrongdoing. As much as his relationship with Soon-Yi Previn, the adopted daughter of his then partner Mia Farrow, might have disgusted some, it wasn’t illegal. Just to be clear.Īnd we must also be clear Woody Allen has never been formally charged with child molestation. The lingering whiff of scandal was re-belched this week by the 81-year-old director’s cloth-eared response to the Harvey Weinstein scandal, telling the BBC the case was: “Tragic for the poor women that were involved, sad for Harvey that life is so messed up.” Allen also worried about an imminent witch-hunt: by which he presumably meant the persecution of poor men by nasty women, not to be confused with the execution of innocent women on charges of black magic.