At the Time 100 Gala on Tuesday night, Ronan Farrow was honored for reporting that helped uncover the Harvey Weinstein allegations and helped launch the social and political movement, #MeToo. At the event the writer’s mother, actress Mia Farrow, gave a rare comment about her daughter Dylan Farrow’s accusations that her father (and Mia Farrow’s…
The push to declare that #TimesUp for Woody Allen has been gaining traction. Jeff Daniels, who starred in Allen’s 1985 film “Purple Rose of Cairo,” and Peter Sarsgaard, who appeared in “Blue Jasmine,” have just joined the list of actors publicly siding with his adopted daughter Dylan Farrow, who has called for Allen’s shunning based…
If there is a heaven, Woody Allen is probably not getting in. If there is a heaven, those of us who do make the cut will be blessedly relieved of any earthly memory that involves Mr. Allen. If there is a heaven, nobody — nobody — will ever have to have another conversation about him…
You would be hard-pressed to find two men more different than Woody Allen and Billy Graham. One is an extremely rich Jewish man. The other is an extremely rich Christian man. One believes that you have to take the car for a test drive before buying it. The other believes that God outlawed premarital sex…
A few weeks ago, Dylan Farrow gave a new interview to CBS’ Gayle King on her allegations against her father, Woody Allen. She gave voice to what many of us had been wondering as the #MeToo movement progressed: Why was Allen still unimpeachable? “Why shouldn’t I want to bring him down?” Farrow asked King, addressing…
It seems the #MeToo wrecking ball is finally catching up with Woody Allen. The 82-year-old actor and filmmaker has long been haunted by allegations that he molested his adopted daughter, Dylan Farrow, more than a quarter-century ago, when she was just seven years old. In 2014, Farrow wrote an open letter with the accusation, and…
Movie news is well and good, but seems to pale in the wake of the most fascinating developments from late last week: The Nutella riots in France. According to a January 26 report from the BBC, after Intermarché supermarkets across France began offering a substantial discount on the chocolate hazelnut spread, people began to battle…
It’s been quite the week for shocking film and television news: A controversial article accusing Aziz Ansari of sexual misconduct elicited dozens of inflamed responses, a scandal over gender pay disparity ripped through Hollywood and, most stunningly of all, “Paddington 2” — which is, in fairness, supposed to be quite good — became the best-reviewed…
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