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  • Woody Allen Film About Older Man and Younger Woman: Close To Home?

    Woody Allen’s latest film, Irrational Man, is about an older man and a younger woman. Emma Stone stars as an undergrad who falls for her older professor, played by Joaquin Phoenix. Emma Stone is 26, while Joaquin Phoenix is 40.

    But that age spread is nothing compared to Woody Allen’s actual marriage.

    “I’ve been married now for 20 years, and it’s been good,” Woody Allen told NPR. “I think that was probably the odd factor that I’m so much older than the girl I married. I’m 35 years older, and somehow, through no fault of mine or hers, the dynamic worked.”

    Woody Allen is married to Soon-Yi Previn, a romance which caused quite an uproar when the pair first got together.

    “I was paternal,” Woody Allen says. “She responded to someone paternal. I liked her youth and energy. She deferred to me, and I was happy to give her an enormous amount of decision-making just as a gift and let her take charge of so many things. She flourished. It was just a good-luck thing.”

    Characterizing his relationship with Soon-Yi as paternal seems an odd choice of words, especially since that dynamic is what caused the scandal in the first place. Soon-Yi Previn is the daughter of Mia Farrow, Woody Allen’s ex-partner/girlfriend. Allen and Farrow have a son together, who is therefore Soon-Yi’s brother.

    “I started the relationship with her and I thought it would just be a fling, it wouldn’t be serious,” Allen says. “But it had a life of its own. And I never thought it would be anything more. Then we started going together, then we started living together, and we were enjoying it. And the age difference didn’t seem to matter. It seemed to work in our favor, actually.”

    Woody Allen says Irrational Man is not about him. But the May-December romance dynamic certainly seems to hit close to home.

  • Woody Allen Responds to Molestation Allegations

    Woody Allen, the famed film director and one-time lover of actress Mia Farrow, published an op-ed in Friday’s edition of The New York Times responding to reignited allegations of molestation by his adopted daughter, Dylan.

    In 1992, during Allen’s court battle with Farrow at the end of their 12-year-long relationship, Dylan, then 7, claimed that Allen had sexually abused her.

    The claims came on the heels of the news that Allen had been having an affair with Farrow’s 19-year-old daughter, Soon-Yi Previn, who was adopted by Mia Farrow and musician Andre Previn. Allen and Soon-Yi Previn continued their relationship, eventually marrying five years later.

    Allen maintains that the frenzy surrounding the claims made by Dylan stem from nothing more than the affects of a child brainwashed to hate their father by their jilted mother.

    In the Times piece, Allen writes, “Not that I doubt Dylan hasn’t come to believe she’s been molested, but if from the age of 7 a vulnerable child is taught by a strong mother to hate her father because he is a monster who abused her, is it so inconceivable that after many years of this indoctrination the image of me Mia wanted to establish had taken root?”

    Dylan Farrow quickly responded to Allen’s disregard for the situation and his determination that the rumors were false. (There was a police investigation in 1992, but it did not conclude in any charges being brought against the filmmaker.)

    “Once again, Woody Allen is attacking me and my family in an effort to discredit and silence me — but nothing he says or writes can change the truth,” Dylan says. “For 20 years, I have never wavered in describing what he did to me. I will carry the memories of surviving these experiences for the rest of my life.”

    Allen and Farrow had three children together; two adopted and a biological son, Satchel. Satchel now goes by Ronan Farrow, and is estranged from his father. He recently took to Twitter to vent and show support for his sister.

    Main image courtesy TheLipTV via YouTube.

  • Ronan Farrow Celebrates Father’s Day, Twitter-Style

    Ronan Farrow, the human rights activist whose parents are Mia Farrow and Woody Allen, celebrated Father’s Day by issuing a tweet directed at his estranged father. For those of you who aren’t overly familiar with the story, here’s the short, short version: Back in the land that was the 1990’s, Farrow and Allen’s relationship promptly fell apart thanks to the director’s infamous affair with Soon-Yi Previn, Mia’s stepdaughter from a previous marriage. Despite the couple’s 34-year age difference, Allen and Previn soon married.

    Ronan, a Rhodes Scholar, was five when his parents split, and his relationship with his father has been admittedly rocky ever since. However, don’t be so quick to feel sorry for the guy, as he’s done pretty well for himself. At the age of 11, Ronan enrolled in college, a feat he soon followed up with his acceptance into Yale Law school at 15. Now 24, Ronan has decided to take a year off from his academic studies to assist the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations. Despite his father’s maladjustments, I’d say Allen’s son has his head screwed on straight.

    “He’s my father married to my sister. That makes me his son and his brother-in-law,” Ronan explained several years ago. “That is such a moral transgression.”

    On Sunday, Ronan decided to celebrate Father’s Day by dedicating a snarky little Tweet to his father. Now that you’re familiar with the setup, the punchline makes a bit more sense:

    Did his mother have a problem with this comment? Not really. In fact, she retweeted her son’s tribute to his father and added a little comment of her own.

    Considering the amount of press coverage Woody Allen and Soon-Yi Previn’s relationship received when the story broke, not to mention the countless jokes made at everyone’s expense, it’s nice to know that Ronan and Mia have a sense of humor about the ordeal.

    In related news, Allen and Previn recently made an appearance at the premiere of the writer/director’s latest cinematic endeavor, “To Rome with Love”. Some footage featuring the pair has been embedded below.