Tag: Allen v. Farrow
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Jerry Lewis Co-Stars Accuse Actor and Comic of Sexual Assault: ‘He Grabbed Me. He Began to Fondle Me.’
Two former co-stars of Jerry Lewis, actresses Karen Sharpe and Hope Holiday, have accused the late comic legend and actor of sexual assault and harassment in a new feature published by Vanity Fair. The interviews were conducted by documentarians Amy Ziering and Kirby Dick, the filmmakers who tackled sexual abuse allegations against Woody Allen in…
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Mariel Hemingway Says Woody Allen’s ‘Manhattan’ ‘100 Percent’ Couldn’t Come Out Today
Mariel Hemingway earned a Best Supporting Actress Academy Award nomination for her performance in Woody Allen’s “Manhattan” as Tracy, a 17-year-old high school student who’s dating Woody Allen’s 42-year-old Isaac Davis. But that huge age gap has remained controversial since the black-and-white movie released in 1979, and was most recently re-evaluated in the HBO documentary…
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Mia Farrow Reflects on Her Children’s Deaths to Combat ‘Vicious Rumors’ After ‘Allen v. Farrow’
Mia Farrow has released a statement on the deaths of her children Tam, Lark, and Thaddeus in order to combat the “vicious rumors” that have circulated around their passings in the wake of HBO’s blockbuster documentary series “Allen v. Farrow.” Moses Farrow, one of Mia’s adopted children who has defended Woody Allen against the child…
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Woody Allen Rehashes Old Arguments, Says He’s ‘Perfectly Innocent’ in CBS News Interview
In Woody Allen’s first interview on American television in nearly 30 years, conducted in July and released Sunday on streamer Paramount Plus, the filmmaker again denies that he ever sexually abused his daughter Dylan Farrow.The interview, conducted by CBS News correspondent Lee Cowan for “CBS Sunday Morning,” skims the surface of the decades-old allegations against…
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Woody Allen’s Campaign Donation Refused by New York City Candidate
With the recent airing of the four-part documentary series “Allen v. Farrow” on HBO, Woody Allen’s name has been in the news a lot over the last few weeks. And with so much renewed interest in long-standing allegations against Allen, there’s now a new round of people attempting to distance themselves from the director.As reported…
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‘Allen v. Farrow’: A Growing Genre of #MeToo Documentaries Makes a Final Plea to Skeptics
In the third installment of “Allen v. Farrow,” former New York Times reporter Peter Marks — who covered the 1992 custody trial between Woody Allen and Mia Farrow — admits with some mixed emotions that he hasn’t watched another Woody Allen movie since.“I didn’t buy it […] either,” Marks says somewhat sheepishly. “As a reporter…
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‘Allen v. Farrow’ Directors Hint at Yale-New Haven Cover-Up With Past Documentation
“This is a story that we thought we knew, but we really didn’t,” said Amy Ziering, the co-director of HBO’s ongoing documentary series, “Allen v. Farrow.” The story in question is that of the allegations of sexual assault and child abuse by director Woody Allen against his then seven-year-old daughter, Dylan. In just two weeks…
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Dylan Farrow Speaks Out About Never-Before-Seen Footage of Her at Age 7 Disclosing Alleged Abuse
The latest entry in HBO’s ongoing, four-part documentary “Allen v. Farrow,” directed by Amy Ziering and Kirby Dick, features home video footage Mia Farrow took of the then-seven-year-old Dylan Farrow disclosing the abuse allegedly inflicted by her adopted father Woody Allen. The video, in which the young Farrow details the alleged molestation that occurred in…
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‘Allen v. Farrow’ Revives Fiery Industry Debate Over Woody Allen Sexual Abuse Allegations
If your Twitter timeline recently has been dominated by tweets about HBO’s new docu-series “Allen v. Farrow,” you aren’t alone.The four-part documentary from filmmakers Amy Ziering, Kirby Dick, and Amy Herdy examines what happened when 7-year-old Dylan Farrow, the daughter of Mia Farrow and Woody Allen, accused her father of sexually abusing her in 1992.…
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Mia Farrow Initially Didn’t Want to Do ‘Allen v. Farrow,’ Fears How Woody Allen Will React
The upcoming HBO docuseries debuting Sunday night, “Allen v. Farrow,” is bound to be one of the year’s most talked-about shows, shedding new light on a controversy that has fascinated the public consciousness for nearly three decades. The documentary provides a four-part window into allegations that Woody Allen molested his adopted daughter, Dylan Farrow, in…