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Director Woody Allen told the BBC this weekend that the situation with disgraced mega-producer Harvey Weinstein is very sad, but warned against creating a witch hunt atmosphere where every guy in an office who winks at a woman is suddenly having to call a lawyer to defend himself.
Allen who has been accused of rape and child molestation by his ex-wife Mia Farrow and who married his adopted stepdaughter Sun-Yi Previn when the girl was 19 said that for the scores of women alleging Weinstein sexually assaulted or harassed them, in the end, there are no winners, even when they do come forward.
No one ever came to me or told me horror stories with any real seriousness, said Allen. And they wouldnt, because you are not interested in it. You are interested in making your movie. But you do hear a million fanciful rumors all the time. And some turn out to be true and some many are just stories about this actress, or that actor.
He continued, The whole Harvey Weinstein thing is very sad for everybody involved. Tragic for the poor women that were involved, sad for Harvey that [his] life is so messed up. Theres no winners in that, its just very, very sad and tragic for those poor women that had to go through that.
JI7
(89,250 posts)Miles Archer
(18,837 posts)Hence, my subject line.
Baitball Blogger
(46,720 posts)MousePlayingDaffodil
(748 posts)This loathsome pervert also thinks nothing of a man marrying his own step-daughter.
JI7
(89,250 posts)BigmanPigman
(51,607 posts)And Ronan wrote the Weinstein story I think.
smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)I am sure it hit home for him considering the fact that his "father" is such a pervert. I still think he's Sinatra's kid. He doesn't have a hint of Woody's looks. A combination of Mia and Frank.
https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/from-aggressive-overtures-to-sexual-assault-harvey-weinsteins-accusers-tell-their-stories
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monmouth4
(9,708 posts)How about a picture of Ronan between pics of Sinatra and Allen when they were about that age?
Hooze yer daddy?
smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)InAbLuEsTaTe
(24,122 posts)Bradshaw3
(7,522 posts)So draw what you will from that. I don't think there's any doubt who his biological father is.
BainsBane
(53,034 posts)Gidney N Cloyd
(19,838 posts)MousePlayingDaffodil
(748 posts). . . well, that makes all the difference, then.
As I recall, Sun-Yi was about nine years old when she was adopted by Mia Farrow, and about 10 years old when Farrow and Allen began their relationship. That Allen never formally "adopted" the girl is so far beside the point that I'm hard-pressed to figure why anyone would possibly think it relevant. She was a child and grew up in a setting where Allen was the boyfriend/lover of her own adopted mother.
There is something really, really wrong with Woody Allen.
LisaM
(27,813 posts)I don't think it does any harm to correct the record on whether he adopted Sun-Yi, though. His relationship with her is still super creepy, but there are people who go about saying a whole story is wrong if one fact like that is even mildly misstated (which is unfortunate but true).
I just remember when the whole Farrow-Allen family would go somewhere in public. Everyone always looked so sad.
Gidney N Cloyd
(19,838 posts)InAbLuEsTaTe
(24,122 posts)LisaM
(27,813 posts)Whenever they were seen in public as a group, they all looked completely miserable.
There was always a darkness to the whole situation, IMO.
pnwmom
(108,979 posts)His relationship with her is wrong.
InAbLuEsTaTe
(24,122 posts)BainsBane
(53,034 posts)Weve been through all the defenses of Allen, Assange, and one rapist after another. Is there no point at which people stop defending sexual predators?
InAbLuEsTaTe
(24,122 posts)We have to get past that... the ONLY concern should be the VICTIMS!!
MaryMagdaline
(6,855 posts)Woody's trying to shame liberals by using the "witch hunt" term, as in mob vengeance, scapegoating, primitive vigilante justice. He tried to shame Mia because he was her meal ticket. He tried to shame Dylan for being too young and stupid to know what happened to her. Ronan, my new hero, isn't buying any of it. He stood by his sister and doesn't care that his father supported him financially. He exposed Weinstein even though Weinstein gives millions to Ronan's favorite political party and various worthy charities.
Woody and the other abusers want us to be too cool for social censure. Worried much?
nolabear
(41,984 posts)They have to look to female persecution to even name their fear of male persecution.
Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin
(108,010 posts)It wasn't just winking Weinstein was doing.
InAbLuEsTaTe
(24,122 posts)even if not rejected, are loathsome scum, plain and simple. I don't care what their party affiliation is, their celebrity status, or even if they're the POTUS... they ALL need to go!!
HopeAgain
(4,407 posts)I'm not surprised.
Squinch
(50,950 posts)InAbLuEsTaTe
(24,122 posts)What a fuckin' creep!!
kskiska
(27,045 posts)Mia even testified for him.
BainsBane
(53,034 posts)For Allen to molest children and Weinstein to rape women. Thank goodness we have you to point out the real culprits.
InAbLuEsTaTe
(24,122 posts)Beringia
(4,316 posts)to stop this kind of closed door molestation. Woody would have them stay quiet. No one wins? What a joke. Weinstein being taken off his pedestal is winning for the women who spoke out.
MineralMan
(146,317 posts)He has no authority to speak about this at all, I'm very certain. He should just STFU.
InAbLuEsTaTe
(24,122 posts)BainsBane
(53,034 posts)Old Vet
(2,001 posts)trixie2
(905 posts)Old Vet
(2,001 posts)The majority of artists are just different in Hollywood. Just saying, Although I know it sounds weird.
rock
(13,218 posts)And women should be able to 'poke men in the eye with a sharp pencil', to balance things out.