Dylan Farrow speaks out about abuse accusations against Woody Allen

"Freakinoldguy" said
And yet the Hollywood A list still rushes to kiss his sick ass and hope to get a part whenever the little perv decides to make another movie.

I guess moral turpitude runs rampant in Hollywood which, makes a person wonder why anyone would listen to these morally defective wankers when they tell us how to think, act, vote and who donate our money to.

"desertdude" said
I always knew there was something creepy about that old man when it was exposed he was banging his girl friends daughter, what kind of a tosser does that, you gotta be fucked in the head. it might not be illegal but it ain't just right. Never watched anything to do with him since.

.....Not entirely. Re-reading that Orth piece and absorbing that letter definitely impacts my view of Allen as a whole. It reminds me again of who this man is. Like when we’re watching a Polanski or a Gibson movie, there will always be, for most of us, a tinge of guilt, even distant complicity, in admiring the craft of a man whose predilection for relationships was with women utterly under his totalitarian control. But the brutal truth is: we will move on. His art and his craft is so extraordinary in its range and scope and creative integrity that it escapes the twisted psyche that gave birth to it. It does things for us as viewers and as human beings that can eclipse the reality Dylan Farrow wants smack-dab in front of our eyes.

In some ways, I wish this weren’t so. It would be a less fallen and compromised world. But the human mind can, alas, live quite fully in places where the practical moral conscience seems irrelevant. And so it is essential to understand Heidegger’s foul complicity in the Third Reich but impossible to reduce his world-historical genius to it. That T.S Eliot was a rancid anti-Semite does not, frustratingly, dilute the perfection of the Four Quartets, nor does Philip Larkin’s racism alter the triumph of Aubade. Jefferson’s thought and career, for that matter, will always elude the facts of his ownership of human beings and intercourse with some of them. Perhaps with less essential talents, the sins may more adequately define the artist. But that, in many ways, only makes the injustice worse. Those with the greatest gifts can get away with the greatest crimes.