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Mariel Hemingway: Woody Allen Hoped to Seduce Me at 18

So she claims in new memoir

(Newser) - When Mariel Hemingway was just 18, she starred as Woody Allen's girlfriend in 1979's Manhattan—and she reveals in an upcoming memoir that the director, then in his mid-40s, appeared to hope life would imitate art. "Our relationship was platonic, but I started to see that he...

A Woody Allen TV Show? What It Means

Big things for streaming TV—and likely controversy: James Poniewozik

(Newser) - Woody Allen is set to write and direct a TV series on Amazon Prime , and the news has big ramifications for the filmmaker, the company, and the TV industry, writes James Poniewozik in Time . First of all, the legendary director's willingness to make a TV show proves that "...

Amazon Scores Woody Allen's First TV Series

He'll write and direct half-hour episodes on Prime

(Newser) - Woody Allen is getting ready to make his first-ever TV series, though in a press release, he doesn't quite sound prepared: "I don’t know how I got into this. I have no ideas and I’m not sure where to begin." The filmmaker will write and...

Scarlett Johansson: Dylan Farrow Letter 'Irresponsible'

She addresses Woody Allen controversy

(Newser) - Scarlett Johansson was one of the many Hollywood VIPs publicly called out by Dylan Farrow for working with Woody Allen despite Farrow's claim that Allen molested her—and now ScarJo has hit back a bit. The quote comes as part of a much larger Guardian profile: "I think...

Feminist &#39;Lynch Mob&#39; Is Wrong on Woody Allen
Feminist 'Lynch Mob' Is
Wrong on Woody Allen
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Feminist 'Lynch Mob' Is Wrong on Woody Allen

Cathy Young: It's ridiculous to presume he's guilty based on dogma

(Newser) - In an essay at Time , Cathy Young takes issue with those in the "feminist camp" who are arguing so strongly that Woody Allen must be guilty of molesting daughter Dylan Farrow. The problem is that they're convicting him based on principle rather than on fact, writes Young. Women...

Dylan Farrow on Allen's Response: 'I Won't Be Silenced'

She responds to the director's 'New York Times' column

(Newser) - Woody Allen firmly denied yesterday that he molested daughter Dylan Farrow when she was a child; now Farrow has responded to him. "I won't let the truth be buried and I won't be silenced," she says in the Hollywood Reporter . "I have never wavered in...

Woody Allen: 'Of Course, I Did Not Molest Dylan'

In the New York Times, he blames years of 'indoctrination' by Mia Farrow

(Newser) - Woody Allen takes to the New York Times to rebut for what he says will be the final time accusations that he molested daughter Dylan . The charges were "crazy" when Mia Farrow raised them 21 years ago, and a police investigation not only cleared him but concluded that Dylan...

Dylan Farrow: I Wasn't Brainwashed

Brother's betrayal 'lowest form of evil,' she says

(Newser) - Dylan Farrow wants to make one thing clear: She was not brainwashed by her mother, Mia Farrow, into believing that her father, Woody Allen, molested her when she was 7. "People are saying that I am not actually remembering what I remember," she tells People in an...

Dylan Farrow's Brother: Woody Didn't Molest Her

Moses Farrow blames Mia for cultivating Allen hatred

(Newser) - Moses Farrow, brother to Dylan Farrow and adopted son of Woody Allen, minces no words when it comes to his sister's allegations of sexual abuse at the hands of their father: "Of course Woody did not molest my sister," Moses, 36, tells People . "She loved him...

Blanchett, Baldwin React to Dylan Farrow Accusations

As Woody Allen's camp shifts focus to Mia Farrow

(Newser) - In her letter detailing sexual abuse she says she suffered at the hands of adopted father Woody Allen, Dylan Farrow called out several celebrities for continuing to work with the director. One line: "What if it had been your child, Cate Blanchett? Louis CK? Alec Baldwin?" Two of those...

Woody Allen: Sex Abuse Claims 'Untrue, Disgraceful'

State attorney believed Allen molested his daughter

(Newser) - Woody Allen called Dylan Farrow's allegations of child molestation "untrue and disgraceful" a day after Farrow renewed claims dating back to Allen's tempestuous relationship with actress Mia Farrow in the early 1990s. The movie director's publicist Leslee Dart said in an email today that Allen has...

Dylan Farrow: Allen Abuse 'Haunted Me'

Adopted daughter recounts sex assault, blasts Hollywood for celebrating director

(Newser) - After last month's Golden Globes tribute kicked up controversy over decades-old allegations of sexual abuse against Woody Allen, his accuser—adopted daughter Dylan Farrow, now 28 and living under a different name in Florida—is stepping forward to give her side of the story. In an open letter to...

Hollywood Blew It With Tribute to Woody Allen

Michelle Dean: Golden Globes event came off as 'blatantly dishonest'

(Newser) - By Twitter standards, one of the biggest, or at least loudest, stories out of this year's Golden Globes was the tribute to Woody Allen. That's largely thanks to the zinger of a tweet from Mia Farrow's son Ronan: "Missed the Woody Allen tribute—did they put...

5 Weirdest Things About the Golden Globes

The layout! The swearing! The random singing!

(Newser) - Last night's Golden Globes ceremony was filled with as many bizarre moments as you'd expect from an awards show fueled by alcohol. Today.com rounds up the head-scratchers that had people talking:
  • Worst management decision: the layout. Some of the winners appeared to be seated in Siberia. It
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Teen Went to Movies After Killing Teacher: Police

Reports indicate Phil Chism used box cutter to kill Colleen Ritzer

(Newser) - Details are emerging in the stunning death of Massachusetts high school teacher Colleen Ritzer, perhaps none more chilling than this: Her alleged killer reportedly took in a movie after doing the deed. Authorities tell the Boston Herald that Philip Chism caught the 4:30pm showing of Woody Allen's Blue ...

Frank Sinatra Might Be Dad to Mia Farrow's Son

And more revelations from Farrow and her kids

(Newser) - In an extensive Vanity Fair interview, Mia Farrow and eight of her children offer up some intimate stories. Two getting a lot of play:
  • Might Frank Sinatra (whom Farrow calls the love of her life) have actually fathered Ronan Farrow, not Woody Allen? "Possibly," says Mia Farrow, adding
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25 Strange Phobias of the Stars

House plants and butterflies and mirrors, oh my!

(Newser) - Everyone understands arachnophobia. But what about swinophobia—the fear of pigs? It's just one of the 25 strange celebrity fears rounded up by the Huffington Post :
  • Katie Holmes: Scared of raccoons.
  • Tyra Banks: Afraid of dolphins.
  • Orlando Bloom: Yep, he's the swinophobe.
  • Woody Allen: One of his many
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16 Crazy Hollywood Custody Fights

From drunk cheeseburger-eating to bizarre affairs, accusations

(Newser) - There's nothing like a celebrity custody dispute to make Thanksgiving morning interesting in Hollywood. Radar rounds up 16 of the nastiest:
  • Who can forget the time David Hasselhoff was filmed, drunk, eating a cheeseburger off his floor, causing him to temporarily lose custody of his daughters? During his custody
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Faulkner Estate Sues Over Midnight in Paris Quote

Incredibly common quote said with attribution

(Newser) - Maybe you've heard William Faulkner's famous quote, "The past is never dead. It's not even past." Well, don't you dare repeat it. Because Faulkner Literary Rights, a company that owns the rights to many of the literary giant's works, is suing Sony Pictures...

Woody Allen's Son Rips 'Brother-in-Law' Pop

Ronan Farrow zings dad again for marrying sis

(Newser) - Woody Allen and Mia Farrow's brainiac son has ripped his famous dad as "my brother-in-law" because of the aging director's marriage to one of Farrow's adopted daughters. The zinger came on Father's Day. "Happy father’s day—or as they call it in my...

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