77 year old pedo filmaker sorry he's too old to play "the lover" onsceen now. Wah.

[elehhhhna]

3:00 PM, July 1 2013


The Single Saddest Statement Woody Allen Made to The Wall Street Journal in His Recent Profile




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There are certain standards in a Woody Allen profile: obligatory nod to the conveyor-belt pace at which he puts out movies; mention of his controversial personal life; hat tip to his world-famous neuroses; and, if lucky, a smattering of self-effacing statements from the legendary filmmaker himself. While the latest profile of Woody Allen, from The Wall Street Journal, ticks off each of those boxes, it also includes one somewhat heartbreaking passage in which the 77-year-old writer/director discusses his single biggest regret these days—that he can no longer play the romantic lead in his films.


“It’s an inevitable disaster of aging, and there’s nothing I can do about it,” he said recently, sitting in the cutting and screening room he rents in a swanky East Side apartment building. . . . “I can’t play the scenes where I’m sitting opposite Diane Keaton or Mia or Dianne Wiest or Judy Davis. If I think of parts for myself now, all I can be is Pop, the lovable doorman backstage at the theater who takes phone numbers for the guys, or the psychiatrist, or the amiable dad at the wedding.” He sighed. “I like to be the lover.”

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1. On one level it is a sad state of affairs

our society doesn't really value old people. It isn't because he is a sleezeball that he can't be the lead it is because he is old and that is, indeed, sad.

[HiPointDem]

2. you were never a believable lover, woody.

[Nay]

9. No, he never was at all. I have no idea where these types of men get the idea that they

are so attractive physically. If he worked a minimum wage job and had his same 'personality,' he'd have a hard time having a love life.

[In_The_Wind]

3. He is one of the most disgusting actors I can think of.

[DisgustipatedinCA]

4. I like Woody Allen. I like his movies.

Some of his more recent work isn't his best, in my opinion, but I think that he has a great body of work.

[ZombieHorde]

5. Having sex with an adult is pedophilia now?

What is the age of consent in your view? 80?

[elehhhhna]

6. his minor children w/ Mia (one adopted, one birthed) also accused him

and have nothing to do with him. catch up.

[ZombieHorde]

7. Those accusations were investigated by a bunch of professionals,

and they all concluded the accusations were false.

[Orrex]

10. In these matters, accusation equals guilt

[ZombieHorde]

11. Is there any evidence for that? .

Sounds like woo to me.

[Orrex]

14. Read any thread on DU that you can find on the subject

Not just about Allen himself; any thread will do.

Someone makes the accusation, and guilt is assumed outright.

Ergo, accusation equals guilt.

[ZombieHorde]

15. Ah. Yes, many assume accusations mean guilt.

I personally don't buy it.

[Orrex]

16. I agree.

Sorry--my over-the-top snark blurred my actual intent.

Typically, in addition to an assumption of guilt, there is also an immediate call for violent and destructive retribution against the accused, and to hell with a trial or evidence.

[meanit]

8. I remember

Rush Limbaugh railing against Woody Allen on his TV show.

Interesting....

[Tom Ripley]

12. I thought this was going to be about Roman Polanski until I saw the phrase "self-effacing"

You may find Allen creepy, but there is no evidence that he was/is a pedophile.

[RZM]

19. Me too

I don't think Woody Allen is like that.

But Polanski definitely is.

[kenny blankenship]

13. Sure you can play the scenes where you're sitting opposite Diane Keaton or Mia Farrow or Diane West

They're all about your age Woodrow. It'll be a real popular movie too, at the Golden Acres Cineplex.

[RudynJack]

17. Pedo?

Referring to the adult woman he's been married to for over 15 years?

Get a grip.

[duffyduff]

18. Soon-Yi Previn is in her early forties. n/t

[elehhhhna]

20. read his short stories

he's always been a lech talking dirty about nubile teenaged girls. Once he bagged his kid's older sister I judged him. There. I admit it.

[Bluenorthwest]

21. You mean he married a much younger woman whom Mia had adopted, not related

by blood to anyone in that family, in fact she's Asian while the rest of them are not? 'Kid's older sister' being a non related person who is of age.
I judge those who are dishonest, you OP is dishonest and disparages good people . Soon Yi Previn was an adult when they got together, and not owned by Mia Farrow, not a child, not related to any of them in any way. Allen and Farrow never married, Farrow herself was twice married to much older and richer men including Andre Previn who was married to Dory Previn until Mia came along. Andre and Mia adopted Soon Yi.
Here is the song Dory Previn wrote about Mia called 'Beware Of Young Girls'
Beware
Of young girls
Who come to the door
Wistful and pale
Of twenty and four
Delivering daisies
With delicate hands
Beware
Of young girls
To often they crave
To cry
At a wedding
And dance
On a grave


She was my friend
My friend
My friend
I thought her motives were sincere
Oh yes
I did
Ah but this lass
It came to pass
Had
A dark and different plan
She admired
My own sweet man
She admired
My own sweet man

We were friends
Oh yes
We were
And she just took him from my life
Oh yes
She did
So young and vain
She brought me pain
But
I'm wise enough to say
She will leave him
One thoughtless day
She'll just leave him
And go away
Oh yes

Beware
Of young girls
Who come to the door
Wistful and pale
Of twenty and four
Delivering daisies
With delicate hands

[Bluenorthwest]

22. You mean the short stories he wrote in his 20's and 30's? In the voices of various

characters including Count Dracula? Those stories? You are pretty amazing.