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Heywood Allen (born Allan Stewart Konigsberg; November 30, 1935) [a] is an American filmmaker, actor, and comedian whose career spans more than six decades. Allen has received many accolades, including the most nominations (16) for the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay. He has won four Academy Awards, ten BAFTA Awards, two Golden Globe ...
- Woody Allen Filmography
Woody Allen has acted in, directed, and written many films...
- List of Awards and Nominations Received by Woody Allen
Throughout his career, American filmmaker, writer, and actor...
- Woody Allen Sexual Abuse Allegation
Woody Allen sexual abuse allegation. Allen in 2016. In...
- Ronan Farrow
Satchel Ronan O'Sullivan Farrow (born December 19, 1987) is...
- Louise Lasser
Louise Marie Lasser (born April 11, 1939) is an American...
- Mia Farrow
1980–1992: Collaborations with Woody Allen Farrow in 1980....
- Moses Farrow
Moses Amadeus Farrow was born in South Korea with cerebral...
- Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex* (*But Were Afraid to Ask)
Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex* (*But Were...
- The Purple Rose of Cairo
The Purple Rose of Cairo is a 1985 American fantasy-romantic...
- Take The Money and Run
Take the Money and Run is a 1969 American mockumentary crime...
- Woody Allen Filmography
Woody Allen has acted in, directed, and written many films starting in the 1960s. His first film was the 1965 comedy What's New Pussycat?, which featured him as both writer and performer. Feeling that his New Yorker humor clashed with director Clive Donner 's British sensibility, he decided to direct all future films from his own material.
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- Responses from Venues
- Celebrity Reactions
- Woody Allen Memoir Apropos of Nothing
- Allen v. Farrow Documentary
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Allen and Farrow
Woody Allen and Mia Farrow began a 12-year relationship in 1980, during which Farrow starred in 13 of his films. They maintained separate apartments in Manhattan throughout the relationship—Farrow on Central Park West and Allen on Fifth Avenue—and did not marry; both had been married twice before. When the relationship began, Farrow had seven children: three biological sons from her marriage to composer André Previn; three adopted girls (two Vietnamese and one Korean, Soon-Yi Previn); and one...
Relationship with Previn
In 1991 Allen began a romantic relationship with Soon-Yi Previn. According to Allen, it began in late December 1991. In August 1992 Farrow told her lawyer, Alan Dershowitz, that Soon-Yi had told her that the relationship between Allen and Soon-Yi had begun on December 1, 1991. Later Farrow alleged it began while Previn was in her final year of high school, which ended in June 1991. She also alleged that Dylan saw Allen and Previn on a bed together in the summer or autumn of 1991.The appeal co...
On August 4, 1992, Allen visited his children at Farrow's country home in Connecticut while Farrow and a friend went shopping with the two most recently adopted children, Tam and Isaiah. Farrow and Allen were to sign an agreement on August 6 that Allen would pay $6,000 a month for the support of Dylan, Satchel and Moses;Martin Weltz, Farrow's lawye...
Custody proceedings and statements
Farrow hired attorney Alan Dershowitz to propose to Allen that they resolve the matter without any public disclosure.Allen rejected the proposal. On August 13, 1992, a week after being told about the allegation, Allen began proceedings in New York Supreme Court for sole custody of Dylan, Moses, and Satchel. Farrow's mother, the actress Maureen O'Sullivan, issued a statement on August 15 that was critical of Allen and said Farrow had retained Dershowitz.Two days later, Allen released his first...
Yale–New Haven Hospital team
On August 17, 1992, the Connecticut State Police announced that they were investigating the molestation allegation. In September the police referred Dylan to the Child Sexual Abuse Clinic of Yale New Haven Hospital. The main questions were whether Dylan was telling the truth and whether she was sexually abused. Frank Maco, State's Attorney for the Litchfield district, declared in 1997 that he asked the Child Sexual Abuse Clinic to evaluate whether Dylan would make a viable witness. The clinic...
Criminal inquiry, social services
The Connecticut State Police interviewed Allen in Litchfield in January 1993 for over three hours. He said he had never been in the attic crawl space; when the police said they had taken fingerprints in there, he said it was possible that his prints were there. The forensic specialist chief of Connecticut's state crime laboratory, Dr. Henry Lee, said that what police has found in the crawl space was hair fibers and that the evidence could not place Allen in the attic. On September 20 that yea...
1992: Soon-Yi mentioning Mia's violence
Soon-Yi wrote in 1992 that Allen was never a father figure to her, but just "man who happens to be the ex-boyfriend of Mia ... Mia was always very hot-tempered and given to rages which terrified all the kids. They can't speak freely because they're still dependent on her. But they could really tell stories and I'm sure one day will. It's true Mia was violent with me and I have conclusive proof, but I hope she and Woody can somehow head off a custody trial."
1997: What Falls Away
In Mia Farrow's 1997 memoir, What Falls Away, Farrow repeated the accusation that Allen had sexually abused Dylan.The allegation was mentioned in several of the book's reviews.
2013: Dylan goes public
Dylan's first public comment was in an interview with Maureen Orth for Vanity Fairin 2013.
In January 2018, the Goodspeed Opera House in Connecticut canceled its adaptation of Allen's film Bullets over Broadway (1994). The following month, Circle Theater in Grand Rapids, Michigan, also canceled their adaptation of Bullets over Broadway. In February 2018, Savanah Lyon, a theater major at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD), beg...
After Dylan's 2014 open letter, several actors issued statements critical of Allen, including Rosie O'Donnell, Lena Dunham, Sarah Silverman, and Susan Sarandon. The mood changed further as a result of the #MeToo and Time's Up movements and Dylan's op-ed. During a November 2017 women's rally, a banner referring to the allegation was hung around the ...
In his memoir, Allen addresses Dylan's allegation, writing that, unlike other cases of sexual abuse that could have been ignored without being taken seriously or adequately investigated, the accusation against him was immediately and thoroughly investigated by two groups of experts which concluded that the evidence proved that there was no sexual a...
The sexual abuse allegation was the subject of a 2021 HBO documentary series, Allen v. Farrow. Directed by Kirby Dick and Amy Ziering, the series features home videos and interviews with family members, including Dylan Farrow, and is told largely from her point of view and Mia Farrow's. Allen, Soon-Yi Previn and Moses Farrow declined to participate...
Hoban, Phoebe (September 21, 1992). "Woody and Mia". New York. pp. 32–42.Woody Allen (born Allen Stewart Konigsberg; November 30, 1935) [a] is an American filmmaker, actor, and comedian whose career spans over fifty years. He has won the Academy Award three times, and many others in his very long career. His many works and his cerebral movie style, mixing satire and humor, have made him one of the most respected ...
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May 14, 2024 · Woody Allen (born November 30, 1935, Bronx, New York, U.S.) is an American motion-picture director, screenwriter, actor, comedian, playwright, and author who is best known for his bittersweet comic films containing elements of parody, slapstick, and the absurd but who also made weighty dramas, often with dark themes and bleak landscapes reminiscent of the work of Swedish director Ingmar ...
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Apr 2, 2014 · Learn about the life and career of Woody Allen, an American comedian, filmmaker and writer who directed and starred in Annie Hall and Manhattan. Find out about his scandals, awards, relationships and controversies.
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Musician, songwriter. Instrument (s) Bass. Years active. 1975 – 2000. Formerly of. The Allman Brothers Band, Gov't Mule, The Peter Criss Band, The Artimus Pyle Band, Blue Floyd, Montage. Douglas Allen Woody (October 3, 1955 – August 25, 2000) [1] was an American bass guitarist best known for his eight-year tenure in the Allman Brothers Band ...
