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Hollywood actor and comedian Alec Baldwin has stepped forward to seemingly defend director and alleged sexual abuser Woody Allen along with New York Governor Andrew Cuomo.

A year ago, a rumor surfaced: Amazon was trying to dump Woody Allen, with whom it had signed a four-movie contract in 2017. The first of those films, A Rainy Day in New York, was shot in 2017. But it seemed to be in limbo, with no release date set — and the lack of detail surrounding its future didn’t seem accidental, given that all that was happening in the wake of the #MeToo movement. Now Allen is firing back. On Thursday, he filed a breach of contract suit in New York, seeking $68 million in damages from Amazon for...

Hollywood says it’s done with Harvey Weinstein, James Toback, Kevin Spacey and other figures ousted for misconduct through the #MeToo movement. But what about Woody Allen? His film distributor, Amazon, the presenters of his musical “Bullets Over Broadway,” and colleagues are now grappling with renewed scrutiny of allegations that Mr. Allen molested his adopted daughter Dylan Farrow in 1992 when she was a child. Mr. Allen has steadfastly denied the claims and was not charged. But at a moment when women’s voices and stories have been amplified as never before, Ms. Farrow’s account carries more force — as even defenders...

(CNN)Dylan Farrow, the adopted daughter of Mia Farrow and Woody Allen, is asking why the director has not suffered the same fate as other powerful men in Hollywood accused of sexual misconduct. In an opinion piece published by the Los Angeles Times on Thursday, Farrow describes her anger over Allen maintaining his career, despite her allegation that he sexually assaulted her in their home when she was seven years old. Farrow first shared her account with Vanity Fair in 2013. Allen has consistently denied the allegation and was not criminally charged.

Woody Allen’s daughter Dylan Farrow is asking why her father has been spared in the wake of the Harvey Weinstein scandal and the subsequent #MeToo movement. “Why is it that Harvey Weinstein and other accused celebrities have been cast out by Hollywood, while Allen recently secured a multimillion-dollar distribution deal with Amazon …?” Farrow wrote in an op-ed for the Los Angeles Times on Thursday. “The system worked for Harvey Weinstein for decades. It works for Woody Allen still,” she added. Farrow – who is one of the star’s three children with ex Mia Farrow – publicly claimed that Allen...

Woody Allen has said he is "sad" for Harvey Weinstein as the producer faces numerous allegations of sexual assault. The filmmaker said he had heard rumours but not "these horror stories" after a number of women came forward to accuse Weinstein of assault. Weinstein has been credited with reviving Allen's career after Allen was accused of abusing Dylan Farrow, his daughter with actress Mia Farrow. The allegation emerged in the early 1990s following Allen's separation from Farrow. The actress left Allen after discovering he was having an affair with her adopted daughter, Soon-Yi Previn. "No one ever came to me...

SNIP The entire series is a deft comic skewering of far-left politics from the 1960s until now, which may explain why leftist reviewers are practically frothing with hostility toward it, albeit without much acknowledgment of the severe case of betrayal they must be feeling toward a fellow lefty for demolishing their radical pieties. (Of the first three reviews I checked, one tut-tutted Allen for making hurtful jokes about the quality of television, another said he wasn’t entitled to make even a passing reference to adoption, and a third complained that the production design of the show, which was evidently made...

...Then there was a major mistake when the equivalent of Moe, Larry and Curly rushed to downgrade the British debt to AA. Too bad these are the same rating agencies that failed to downgrade U.S. mortgages. I would ask MOODY’s, S&P and FITCH: How is it possible to grade European debt when the ECB has no centralized taxing authority to stand behind it? The ECB is a bottomless pit and the U.K. will be proven smart by relieving itself of an enormous liability.

Jack Rollins, a producer and a sharp-eyed talent manager who saw more than a shy gag-writer in Woody Allen and believed that the manic improvisations of Robin Williams would crack up audiences, died on Thursday at his home in Manhattan. He was 100. His daughter Susan Rollins confirmed his death. Mr. Rollins did not just boost fragile young egos. To his clients — who also included Billy Crystal, David Letterman, Lenny Bruce and the team of Mike Nichols and Elaine May, an American pantheon of hilarity — he was a father-confessor, real estate agent, psychiatrist, marriage counselor and financial guru.

The writer-director opened up about how his career has changed after he was accused of sexually abusing his adopted daughter Dylan Farrow.Woody Allen reflected on how his career changed after allegations circulated that he sexually abused his adopted daughter, Dylan Farrow, while sharing his thoughts on cancel culture in a new interview. While speaking to The Wall Street Journal earlier this week, Allen again addressed the sexual abuse claims, maintaining his innocence, and spoke about the fallout from the controversy he faced, which has included a number of stars declaring they no longer want to work with him. And he...

The American filmmaker took part in a Q&A session via a video link, with pro-Putin Russian director Fyodor Bondarchuk moderating the conversation. Allen’s presence has sparked outrage, with Ukraine’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs calling it "a disgrace and an insult." Oscar-winning American filmmaker Woody Allen appeared at the Moscow International Film Week yesterday, headlining the “Legends of World Cinema” programme. The 89-year-old took part in the event via a video link - rather than in person – with pro-Putin Russian director Fyodor Bondarchuk moderating the conversation. The festival’s website described the slot as an “atmosphere of a confidential dialogue” to...

Award-winning US filmmaker Woody Allen will take part in Moscow International Film Week, according to the event's website. Kicking off this Saturday, the festival is expected to feature dozens of foreign participants. The event has attracted a large number of international attendees despite a wave of 'cancel culture' targeting Russian art and Western attempts to isolate the country's creative community. The director, screenwriter, and four-time Oscar winner will participate in the film week online, hosting a special session titled Legends of World Cinema. The session will be moderated by top Russian director and producer Fyodor Bondarchuk. Joining Allen as participants...

One of the most unexpected legacies generated by The Simpsons is the repeated insistences in which the creative team have some form of clairvoyancy, with so many real-world events appearing to be predicted well ahead of time by Springfield’s most famous family. With that in mind, it was inevitable that an episode removed from the airwaves in the aftermath of the September 11th terror attacks gave rise to a predictive conspiracy theory, even if it was nothing more than a matter of coincidence and a show of respect. The first episode of the ninth season, ‘The City of New York...

An article published Sunday by the Wall Street Journal revealed a photograph of billionaire Microsoft founder Bill Gates with one of child sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein’s alleged victims. The photograph shows Gates standing next to an unnamed Polish model who was in her early 20s when Epstein flew her to Seattle on a private jet, where they met with the founder, the WSJ detailed. The event apparently occurred in 2014, years after Epstein’s 2008 registration as a sex offender. The model was also snapped alongside director Woody Allen at Epstein’s private home in Manhattan, former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud, and...

Even before the New York State Thruway was built, there was the Red Apple Rest on Route 17 in the Hamlet of Southfields in the Town of Tuxedo. People who remember the iconic restaurant in its heyday stopped by the iconic site to watch the symbolic end of an era, as a portion of the old 1930's restaurant was torn down. "Every time we'd be out doing our thing back in the day, this was our stopping hole to eat," says Morgan Grant, from Suffern. The Orange County landmark was once a thriving business that put the hamlet on the...

A vast trove of Jeffrey Epstein's private calendars and emails are being revealed today by DailyMail.com. The hundreds of pages in the files give an unprecedented insight into the late pedophile's extraordinary network of power and influence. Among the revelations is that Epstein appeared to know personal details about the marriage of Bill Gates and his ex-wife Melinda – while magician David Blaine had numerous dinners with the financier.

VIDEOLife really does imitate art!!! One of the funniest SCTV skits ever was "Play It Again, Bob" in which Woody Allen tries to convince Bob Hope to be directed by him. It was funny because it seemed to be highly unlikely. Or at least it seemed to be unlikely until Woody Allen himself confirmed it during his Instagram interview with Alec Baldwin. Oh, and Woody Allen also expressed a desire to have directed Jerry Lewis. If the SCTV writers had pitched the latter scenario, the producers would have probably nixed it since they already went out on the limb with...

VIDEOIt was supposed to be Alec Baldwin shooting questions at Woody Allen but as you can see in this sneak preview of the interview, it turned out that it was Woody Allen who turned the tables on Baldwin and shot a very uncomfortable question at him.

It’s been months now since it was revealed that CNN’s Chris Cuomo was involved in advising his brother, former New York Governor Andrew Cuomo, regarding the sexual misconduct allegations that he was facing from multiple women.Yet, CNN did nothing about it when it was announced. They also allowed Chris Cuomo to have his brother on multiple shows, propping him up in the middle of the nursing home scandal and painting him as a great hero of the pandemic with cutesy skits. It violated a basic principle of journalism to do that, but CNN didn’t have a problem with it and...

Chris Cuomo, host of CNN’s Cuomo Prime Time, used his media sources to dig up info on his brother, former Governor Andrew Cuomo’s, sexual harassment accusers, according to texts and interview transcripts recently revealed. Text messages released by New York Attorney General Letitia James show Chris Cuomo had frequent contact with Melissa DeRosa, Andrew Cuomo’s top aide at the time.