Woody Allen Meets #MeToo
- 6 years ago
Woody Allen Meets #MeToo
Ellen Page declared, “I did a Woody Allen movie and it is the biggest regret of my career.” Actors are donating earnings from Woody Allen movies to sexual assault organizations,
and Amazon is said to be considering canceling its distribution of his movies.
“I think it’s more logical almost that the people who accuse me of being brainwashed are brainwashed themselves
by the celebrity, the glamour, the fantasy, the pull they have to Woody Allen, their hero on a pedestal.”
The larger point, she said, is not her own suffering over the years, but the need to listen to victims
Frank Maco, the Connecticut prosecutor who oversaw the case in the 1990s, told me
that he watched Dylan recently on “CBS This Morning” and was impressed by how the little girl had grown up to be “strong and determined.” He reiterated what he had said at the time: that he had probable cause to bring a criminal case against Allen (who was Dylan’s adoptive father) but couldn’t justify putting a fragile child through a brutal trial.
Meanwhile, the New York judge in the Mia Farrow-Woody Allen child custody case ruled
that although he couldn’t be sure whether the sexual assault itself had occurred, “Mr.
Then she wrote an open letter for my blog (nobody else seemed to want to publish it)
describing how, when she was 7 years old, Allen allegedly sexually assaulted her.
Ellen Page declared, “I did a Woody Allen movie and it is the biggest regret of my career.” Actors are donating earnings from Woody Allen movies to sexual assault organizations,
and Amazon is said to be considering canceling its distribution of his movies.
“I think it’s more logical almost that the people who accuse me of being brainwashed are brainwashed themselves
by the celebrity, the glamour, the fantasy, the pull they have to Woody Allen, their hero on a pedestal.”
The larger point, she said, is not her own suffering over the years, but the need to listen to victims
Frank Maco, the Connecticut prosecutor who oversaw the case in the 1990s, told me
that he watched Dylan recently on “CBS This Morning” and was impressed by how the little girl had grown up to be “strong and determined.” He reiterated what he had said at the time: that he had probable cause to bring a criminal case against Allen (who was Dylan’s adoptive father) but couldn’t justify putting a fragile child through a brutal trial.
Meanwhile, the New York judge in the Mia Farrow-Woody Allen child custody case ruled
that although he couldn’t be sure whether the sexual assault itself had occurred, “Mr.
Then she wrote an open letter for my blog (nobody else seemed to want to publish it)
describing how, when she was 7 years old, Allen allegedly sexually assaulted her.