BBC: Woody Allen 'sad' for producer (Harvey Weinstein) over sexual assault allegation

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21. Ronan Farrow is much smarter, much more impressive than Woody Allen ever was. Allen's intellect...

...is somewhat over rated, and his affectations about intellect are fairly pretentious in any case.

I have never thought of Ms. Farrow, Ronan's mother, as an intellectual lightweight.

While I enjoyed Allen's movies when I was young - and was in fact a fan - now that I'm older and better educated, when I've seen them again, I've been less than impressed.

On retrospect some of these movies, Manhattan comes to mind actually end up being quite disturbing in light of subsequent events.

Farrow, by contrast, is a very, very, very impressive young man, far deeper, far brighter and in many ways more accomplished, in a human being kind of way than Allen.

Allen makes movies about his angst in getting laid.

Farrow by contrast, works for humanity.

From Farrow's Wikipedia Biography:

Public service[edit]
From 2001 to 2009, he was a UNICEF Spokesperson for Youth,[13] acting as an "advocate" for children and women caught up in the ongoing crisis in Sudan's Darfur region [14] and assisting in fundraising and addressing United Nations affiliated groups in the United States.[14][15] During this time, he also made joint trips to the Darfur region of Sudan with his mother, the actress Mia Farrow, who is a UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador.[16] He subsequently advocated for the protection of Darfuri refugees.[11] Following on his experiences in Sudan, Farrow was affiliated with the Genocide Intervention Network.[17]

During his time at Yale Law School, Farrow interned at the law firm Davis Polk & Wardwell and in the office of the chief counsel at the United States House Committee on Foreign Affairs, focusing on international human rights law.[11][18][19]

In 2009, Farrow joined the Obama administration as Special Adviser for Humanitarian and NGO Affairs in the Office of the Special Representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan.[11][20][21] He was part of a team of officials recruited by the diplomat Richard Holbrooke,[22] for whom Farrow had previously worked as a speechwriter.[23] For the next two years, Farrow was responsible for "overseeing the U.S. Government's relationships with civil society and nongovernmental actors" in Afghanistan and Pakistan.[11][20]

In 2011, Farrow was appointed Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's Special Adviser for Global Youth Issues[24] and Director of the State Department's Office of Global Youth Issues.[11] The office's creation was the outcome of a multi-year task-force appointed by Clinton to review the United States' economic and social policies on youth,[25] for which Farrow co-chaired the working group with senior USAID staff member David Barth beginning in 2010.[26][27] Farrow's appointment and the creation of the office were announced by Clinton as part of a refocusing on youth following the Arab Spring revolutions.[28] Farrow was responsible for U.S. youth policy and programming[11] with an aim toward "empower[ing] young people as economic and civic actors."[11] Farrow concluded his term as Special Adviser in 2012, with his policies and programs continuing under his successor.[29]

Farrow is head and shoulders more important than Allen ever was or ever will be.