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Nitram

(28,061 posts)
6. I think it's pretty shallow to reduce Allen's movies to this, even if you don't like them.
Fri Jan 5, 2018, 03:49 PM
Jan 2018

You could probably do the same with Shakespeare if you wanted to. All based on the accusations of the woman who told Allen the child he believed he fathered with her was actually conceived during a tryst with Frank Sinatra, and a well-coached seven-year-old.

You might find this article in which Moses Farrow, Dylan Farrow's brother, says Mia Farrow, Not Woody Allen was abusive. Moses is a family therapist who recounts that "My mother drummed it into me to hate my father for tearing apart the family and sexually molesting my sister. And I hated him for her for years. I see now that this was a vengeful way to pay him back for falling in love with Soon-Yi."

"[Dylan] looked forward to seeing [Allen] when he would visit," he said. "She never hid from him until our mother succeeded in creating the atmosphere of fear and hate towards him. The day in question, there were six or seven of us in the house. We were all in public rooms and no one, not my father or sister, was off in any private spaces. My mother was conveniently out shopping. I don't know if my sister really believes she was molested or is trying to please her mother. Pleasing my mother was very powerful motivation because to be on her wrong side was horrible."

Moses added that his home with Mia Farrow at the helm was never a happy one. and in fact, she was the abusive one.

"From an early age, my mother demanded obedience and I was often hit as a child," he added. "She went into unbridled rages if we angered her, which was intimidating at the very least and often horrifying, leaving us not knowing what she would do."

http://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/dylan-farrows-brother-moses-mia-farrow-woody-allen/story?id=22377303

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Is anyone surprised by this? HopeAgain Jan 2018 #1
The author of the piece is rightly horrified by sexual misconduct Loki Liesmith Jan 2018 #2
What a strange response. n/t demmiblue Jan 2018 #3
Wait, what? (n/t) FreepFryer Jan 2018 #8
I have noticed his creepy lecherousness all throughout his films. Through his smirkymonkey Jan 2018 #4
Did you ever see Crimes and Misdemeanors? milestogo Jan 2018 #17
Actually, I have not seen that one. smirkymonkey Jan 2018 #18
Are you looking for pervy movies? milestogo Jan 2018 #19
Umm, nope. Why would you assume that? smirkymonkey Jan 2018 #20
Just wondering why you are re-watching them if you think they are pervy and it bothers you. milestogo Jan 2018 #21
Actually, for the most part, I like them and think they are very funny. smirkymonkey Jan 2018 #22
His muse lives behind his fly. marble falls Jan 2018 #5
I think it's pretty shallow to reduce Allen's movies to this, even if you don't like them. Nitram Jan 2018 #6
I read that article and see she is standing by her claims JonLP24 Jan 2018 #9
The point is that Mia Farrow could have implanted a false memory through the repetition of a Nitram Jan 2018 #10
I don't doubt she may have been abusive toward him JonLP24 Jan 2018 #12
Farrow videotaped the seven-year-old Dylan over the course of three days while she asked Nitram Jan 2018 #13
Woody had to be on his best behavior a well known claustrophobic JonLP24 Jan 2018 #14
Which creepy behavior? Nitram Jan 2018 #15
as a heterosexual male, I don't get this fetish apart from physically yurbud Jan 2018 #7
Assuming that Allen is a pedophile. I find that assumption dubious. Nitram Jan 2018 #11
So where exactly is Woody Allen different from other men? milestogo Jan 2018 #16
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