Posted on 02/01/2014 2:52:12 PM PST by RummyChick
What’s your favorite Woody Allen movie? Before you answer, you should know: when I was seven years old, Woody Allen took me by the hand and led me into a dim, closet-like attic on the second floor of our house.
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Agree 100%. I’m a fan of Allen’s films, but his actions during the final years of his relationship with Farrow were reprehensible. I don’t doubt his attraction with Soon-Yi developed when she was either 20 or 21, but there’s no way he could legitimately believe it would not have a devastating effect on his family... and that is simply unforgivable.
However, there’s this little thing called the law, and called justice. While his relationship with Soon-Yi is odd there was nothing illegal done. She was a full grown woman, and by all accounts is extremely smart, so she certainly what she was getting into. Secondly, the court determined no molestation occurred between Allen and Dylan. There was simply no evidence and the child appeared coached.
I fully understand Farrow’s feelings of shock, pain, horror and betrayal, but that does not justify trumping up these accusations to exact one last pound of flesh.
“Woody and Mia belong in jail.”
I really don’t know that much about this case, but why would you say Mia belongs in jail? She allowed the perv into her home with her children, but did she know he was a perv? Did she let him stay after she learned? What did she do to deserve to be in jail?
“Secondly, the court determined no molestation occurred between Allen and Dylan. There was simply no evidence”
the Court did not such thing
“But while a team of experts concluded that Dylan was not abused, the judge said he found the evidence inconclusive. “
And btw, the Prosecutor said he felt there was probable cause to believe Allen abused Dylan
http://www.nytimes.com/1993/11/04/nyregion/woody-allen-fails-to-beat-a-prosecutor.html
I wish you would quite saying there was simply no evidence.
YES THERE WAS...
“Mr. Maco said he had drawn up an arrest warrant for Mr. Allen but decided not to pursue the case because he wanted to spare Dylan the trauma of a trial. He said Ms. Farrow had agreed that dropping the charges was in her daughter’s best interest. When asked if he had enough evidence to convince a jury that Mr. Allen was guilty, he said: “Arguably, I do.”
There was never a divorce because they were never married.
The molestation charges were the one way Farrow could get him into court.
When she did not report the issue, she became a accessory by law. Stop standing up the the woman. She knew and did nothing. She did not defend her child. THINK before you question.
Excuse me for asking an honest, straightforward question before jumping to a conclusion.
Obviously the acting judge would deny visitation to Dylan given his personal belief the evidence was inconclusive.
Additionally:
“In a scathing 33-page decision, Acting Justice Elliott Wilk of State Supreme Court denounced Mr. Allen for carrying on an affair with one of Ms. Farrow’s daughters, trying to pit family members against one another and lacking knowledge of the most basic aspects of his children’s lives.”
So yeah, that stands to reason. However, you indicated there were reports of pictures of 15 year old Soon-Yi. The judge certainly had the power to order an investigation of lewd acts with a minor if that were in fact true. Obviously there were never any such photos presented.
Back sometime in the 70s - I can’t really remember what year - Woody Allen was making a lot of movies, one after the other and getting raves from the “hip” set.
I will admit that at first my adverse reaction to him was engendered by the fact that I couldn’t stand a lot of the folks who were his big fans. I figured that if they liked him, there must be something wrong with him. Then I went to see a couple of his movies. I specifically remember “Sleeper” and “Love and Death.”
That clinched it. The films were hopelessly self-absorbed, tedious in the extreme and perverse in the most bizarre ways that I could never quite put my finger on, but which were very real nonetheless.
I filed Allen away under that category of sexually frustrated twerp that finds the sow’s ear in every pile of silk purses. He further personified that modern fixation on psychotherapy as a substitute for religious faith and sin as something to be accepted and reveled in rather than confessed and corrected.
While I was shocked at the depth of the underlying perversion that has since come to light, I would not call it surprising. That said, I think it’s a damn shame that Sinatra is now gone and unavailable to have some of his cronies exact an appropriate revenge on this vile little pervert and his infamita.
Millstone, anyone?
“It was the role in Roman Polanski’s creepy 1968 movie Rosemary’s Baby which launched Farrow’s acting career. Ironically, this was also the movie that ended her relationship with Frank Sinatra — she had got together with him when she was 19 and he was 48 (leading to lots of cradle-snatching jokes, particularly by the comic Jackie Mason, until bullets were delivered to Mason’s hotel room). “http://www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle/features/drama-and-deceit-mark-mia-farrows-incredible-life-245542.html
How does a woman that ugly get to be a major movie star?
“When the Soon Yi revelations came to light, Sinatra’s ‘associates’ offered to take Woody somewhere quiet and duff him up. Farrow declined. “http://www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle/features/drama-and-deceit-mark-mia-farrows-incredible-life-245542.html
Yeah because no prosecutor has EVER tried to drum up personal attention in the media....
I think the Duke Men’s Lacrosse Team would beg to differ.
BTW, you might want to read this:
“A panel of the Statewide Grievance Committee, which has authority over lawyers’ licenses, on Wednesday recommended dismissing Allen’s complaint against Litchfield County State’s Attorney Frank Maco.
But while recommending the charges be dropped, the panel’s 19-page, single- spaced decision nevertheless was sharply critical of Maco’s actions.
The panel chastised Maco for his performance at a September 1993 press conference in which he announced he would not prosecute Allen on sex abuse charges, but said he had enough evidence to justify an arrest.
At that press conference, the panel found, Maco’s statements ``clearly allowed reasonable people to conclude that [Maco] was saying that [Allen] was factually guilty.’’
``We are highly critical of [Maco’s] lack of sensitivity, in this case, to the concept of the presumption of innocence.,’’ the three-member panel said. ``It is a deeply rooted principle in our society that an individual is protected against a label of guilt without first having a fair opportunity to defend within the justice system. . . . It is important that officers of the court help maintain the public’s confidence in the integrity of the justice system.’’
Along with Frank, I have studio tape copies of Nat King Cole, Peggy Lee (”Fever”), Dean Martin, Sammy Davis, Elvis, Ella F...and many more - some raw studio tapes before mastering, some dry before the added reverb and some with chatter.
If you’re interested, I can make a CDR for you. Just “PM” me and we can go from there...
All tracks are versions that are not commercially available from a good friend who is a critically acclaimed mastering engineer.
Damn shame.
How fortunate you are. There are no singers quite like the the mid century singers. Just wonderful sounds and creative work.
Once again, the JUDGE ..I repeat ...the JUDGE denied him any visitation based on everything he heard.
It’s people like you that create a world in which victims of child molestors have to fight the indignity to be heard..and often why they never come forward.
“Child CSA victims are often vulnerable and frightened. Their stories may appear inconsistent, and may emerge in bits and pieces. This pattern is normal for a child who has experienced this kind of trauma and attempts to recount it for an adult”
http://www.victimsofcrime.org/media/reporting-on-child-sexual-abuse
And look at Roman Polanski. Supposedly because he was an "artist," he was excused for raping a young teen girl. These people are moral monsters. Their habit of giving in to their worst urges makes them unworthy to associate with normal people.
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