Woody Allen Speaks Out

[CTyankee]

328. But surely you have read the problems with that report, what the judge did that would lead one to

believe that he had concerns about Woody being with Dylan, all of this that I won't rehash because surely you know what I am talking about. So some of us have suspicions that have some bearing on what has been revealed.

What I am getting at is the only undeniable fact in Woody's actual behavior that is beyond suspicion at this point: he was having sex with his teenaged stepdaughter who lived with his lover, a young woman nearly 40 years his junior. The facts of their surroundings are not inconsequential...he didn't meet her on a movie set, or in a coffee shop, etc...she was the daughter of his partner. So here you have two factors that are indisputable: the 39 year age disparity and the fact that she was Mia's child in her home when he began having sex with her. So when Dylan at age 7 tells her mother what happened with Woody, we either have to have suspicions that she is telling the truth or manufacture from whole cloth a story about Mia the Sociopath, as you have generally outlined it. Based on the history here it seems to me that there is one story that has no factual basis and one that at least has some legs to it, based on what happened earlier.

Now to enter into evidence Mia Farrow's sex life with other partners, as some sort of proof of the Mia the Sociopath scenario, is not dispositive on the question of whether Woody committed child molestation. Woody's past actions with Soon Yi have a lot more evidentiary heft. His gall in presenting the sex affair with Soon Yi as some sort of delightful romance, as he did in the NYT OpEd, just makes him look worse, not better.

Again, I want to be clear. I want to stick with what we do know at this point not a narrative that we can dream up. I can, for instance, find a perfectly "logical" reason that Woody never "did it again" (it's called Events that Happen in Aging Men's Lives, to put it daintily). But from now on, I say let's stay within the bounds of what we DO know that pertains to this matter and not create our own screenplay.