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My Father, Woody Allen, and the Danger of Questions Unasked (Ronan Farrow compares Woody to Cosby)
Hollywood Reporter ^ | 5/11/2016 | Ronan Farrow

Posted on 05/11/2016 6:28:58 AM PDT by simpson96

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Some reporters have drawn connections between the press' grudging evolution on Cosby and a painful chapter in my own family's history. It was shortly before the Cosby story exploded anew that my sister Dylan Farrow wrote about her own experiences — alleging that our father, Woody Allen, had "groomed" her with inappropriate touching as a young girl and sexually assaulted her when she was 7 years old.

Being in the media as my sister's story made headlines, and Woody Allen's PR engine revved into action, gave me a window into just how potent the pressure can be to take the easy way out. Every day, colleagues at news organizations forwarded me the emails blasted out by Allen's powerful publicist, who had years earlier orchestrated a robust publicity campaign to validate my father's sexual relationship with another one of my siblings.(snip)

The open CC list on those emails revealed reporters at every major outlet with whom that publicist shared relationships — and mutual benefit, given her firm's starry client list, from Will Smith to Meryl Streep. Reporters on the receiving end of this kind of PR blitz have to wonder if deviating from the talking points might jeopardize their access to all the other A-list clients.

In fact, when my sister first decided to speak out, she had gone to multiple newspapers — most wouldn't touch her story. An editor at the Los Angeles Times sought to publish her letter with an accompanying, deeply fact-checked timeline of events, but his bosses killed it before it ran. The editor called me, distraught, since I'd written for them in the past. There were too many relationships at stake. It was too hot for them.

(Excerpt) Read more at hollywoodreporter.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: California; US: New York
KEYWORDS: california; cosby; dylanfarrow; hollywood; incest; leftwingnitwit; newyork; pedophiles; ronanfarrow; sexoffenders; woodyallen
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1 posted on 05/11/2016 6:28:58 AM PDT by simpson96
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To: simpson96

Washington Post says there is no evidence to support sex abuse allegations against Bill Clinton.

Guess that’s so for Crosby as well


2 posted on 05/11/2016 6:31:02 AM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: BenLurkin

Roman Polanski couldn’t simply debauch a vulnerable 13 year old child, he had to sodomize her, significantly raising her chances of developing highly lethal rectal cancer, as Fatah Fawcett so unfortunately discovered. Virginal nuns have a much lower rate of cervical than average because outside of the singular wedding night experience in which a couple become safely, epidemiological initialized to one another, Dr. Jerome LeJeune taught Dr. Gisla, seamen is highly carcinogenic.


3 posted on 05/11/2016 6:38:39 AM PDT by CharlesOConnell (CharlesOConnell)
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To: simpson96

Frank Sinatra’s kid makes some good points here.


4 posted on 05/11/2016 6:38:47 AM PDT by ClearCase_guy (Nation States seem to be ending. The follow-on should not be Globalism, but Localism.)
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To: CharlesOConnell

Dastardly autofill. Semen.


5 posted on 05/11/2016 6:39:47 AM PDT by CharlesOConnell (CharlesOConnell)
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To: simpson96

Everything is interconnected.


6 posted on 05/11/2016 6:41:37 AM PDT by Ciexyz ("You know who gets hurt? The people who worked hard, lived frugally, and saved their money."- Trump)
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To: BenLurkin
My dad, Woody Allen

Riiiiight


7 posted on 05/11/2016 6:43:50 AM PDT by Puppage (You may disagree with what I have to say, but I shall defend to your death my right to say it)
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To: ClearCase_guy

Yep. There’s no way on God’s green earth that he’s Woody Allen’s biological offspring. He lucked out getting Sinatra’s genes rather than Allen’s.

I’m glad he has the guts to speak out on this troubling subject.


8 posted on 05/11/2016 6:44:05 AM PDT by FenwickBabbitt
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To: simpson96

“The heart wants what the heart wants.”


9 posted on 05/11/2016 6:48:20 AM PDT by elcid1970 ("The Second Amendment is more important than Islam. Buy ammo.")
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To: simpson96

Michael Jackson
Bill Cosby
Woody Allen
Bill Clinton

Liberals are (mostly) desperate to protect them all. I would have liked Farrow’s piece more if he had identified Hillary as an enabler of her rapist husband.


10 posted on 05/11/2016 6:48:28 AM PDT by ClearCase_guy (Nation States seem to be ending. The follow-on should not be Globalism, but Localism.)
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That’s frank Sinatra’s kid....

Cosby, Allen & Clinton.. They weren’t protected by the media because they were men..they were protected because they were liberal


11 posted on 05/11/2016 6:48:42 AM PDT by SPRINK
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= “my ratings are crap and I am worried about them going negative so here is a shiny object that nobody cares about you may feel free to discuss and obsess about in case there is not already enough things in your life you don’t care about. And then if you say you don’t care, then I can berate you for not caring about the women BC drugged and raped.”


12 posted on 05/11/2016 6:56:18 AM PDT by Attention Surplus Disorder (I apologize for not apologizing.)
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To: FenwickBabbitt

If you google the Farrow family you can see the striking resemblance between Ronan Farrow, his maternal grandfather and his perverted child molesting uncle.


13 posted on 05/11/2016 6:57:49 AM PDT by LottieDah (If only those who speak so eloquently on behalf of animals would do so on behalf of the unborn.)
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I avoided Woody Allen as much as possible because too much of his work had gross undertones (or was just gross). Once he married his girlfriend’s adopted daughter, who was adopted at age 6 into his home, I changed that from avoidance to a refusal to watch him. Whether or not he violated the law, he is what I consider a predator.


14 posted on 05/11/2016 7:00:28 AM PDT by Pollster1 (Somebody who agrees with me 80% of the time is a friend and ally, not a 20% traitor. - Ronald Reagan)
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I believe Ronan is Woody Allen's biological son, not Sinatra's. I detest Woody Allen, but he is a genius, as is Ronan, who went to college at age 12 and then to Yale Law School. Frank Sinatra had scrappy intelligence, but his IQ was nowhere near egghead Woody Allen's. Plus, yes, Sinatra was “Old Blue Eyes”, but he was not nearly as fair in skin or hair as Woody Allen and Ronan is nearly an albino.
15 posted on 05/11/2016 7:02:43 AM PDT by utahagen
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Hollywood Nitwit Alert!


16 posted on 05/11/2016 7:04:42 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (Here's to the day the forensics people scrape what's left of Putin off the ceiling of his limo.)
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To: Pollster1

I feel much the same way. For nearly three decades, I have been completely unable to watch anything that has him in it.

What a creep.


17 posted on 05/11/2016 7:17:30 AM PDT by rlmorel ("Irrational violence against muslims" is a myth, but "Irrational violence against non-muslims" isn't)
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To: utahagen
Frank Sinatra had scrappy intelligence

There are exceptions but in general children get their cognitive abilities from their mother, not father. Nature uses the female brain as the stable baseline and males for experiments. Men have a much wider IQ bell curve than women.

18 posted on 05/11/2016 7:22:04 AM PDT by Reeses (A journey of a thousand miles begins with a government pat down.)
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To: Reeses

Wow! That is fascinating. Had no idea. Thanks for the interesting post.


19 posted on 05/11/2016 7:27:58 AM PDT by utahagen
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To: simpson96
Climbing into bed with a five yo and asking her to suck your adult thumb is all I need to know about Woody Allen.

SICK

20 posted on 05/11/2016 7:34:02 AM PDT by MarMema (`)
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