Now comes HBO’sAllen v. Farrow, a painful and exhaustive re-examination of the case againstWoody Allen.
So many of the facts presented here have been public for decades yet onlynoware we willing to listen.
He and Farrow had been dating since 1980.
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They were New York’s power couple though Allen was the one with the power.
“For years he had said how lucky I was to work with him,” she recalls today.
“He said… ‘I can replace you in less than two minutes.'”
Even when they eventually decided to try for a baby together, the arrangement remained the same.
She is complicit in the escalation."
But back to Dylan.
(Allen denies any wrongdoing.)
It’s particularly galling, given how Allen built his brand with movies that romanticized the older-man-libidinous-younger-woman dynamic.
(That theme is explored in queasy-making detail in episode 2.)
There’s always a new generation ready to be horrified at how their elders treated women.
Expect more of this come Sunday night, after the first episode ofAllen v. Farrowairs.
Weshouldbe appalled especially those of us who consumed the scandal as it happened.
