An Open Letter from Dylan Farrow — Page 14

I don't think the fact that Woody Allen refused a police lie detector test and instead had a specialist of his own hiring do one is at all damning.

Woody Allen was represented by lawyers during this period.

Any lawyer worth his or his salt, whether representing someone guilty or innocent in fact (and remember, lawyers frequently do not know for sure whether their clients are guilty or not), would advise a client to take a confidential lie detector test administered by someone hired by the client rather than one administered by the police.

Moreover, lie detector examining investigators, both private and state-employed, as a general rule are professionals who do not skew results.

This of course is a separate question as to whether lie detector results are so reliable that they completely clear someone who has passed the exam. Generally, they are not accepted as evidence in courts.

Updated On: 2/8/14 at 12:11 PM

My humblest apologies for the redundancy.

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"Why would a director who thought his ex had vindictively orchestrated an evil smear campaign against him consider her for a part in a movie a couple of years later?"

Sometimes creative people look past their personal issues and want the best for their projects. When Phantom of the Opera was being made into a movie, Andrew Lloyd Webber had thought about casting Patti LuPone as Carlotta (or was it Madame Giry?).

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Updated On: 2/8/14 at 03:36 PM

This is turning into The Bonfire of the Narcissists.
Stop me oh-ho-ho stop meee...

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"Some domestic trouble of mine, of long- standing, on which I will make no further remark than that it claims to be respected, as being of a sacredly private nature, has lately been brought to an arrangement, which involves no anger or ill-will of any kind, and the whole origin, progress, and surrounding circumstances of which have been, throughout, within the knowledge of my children. It is amicably composed, and its details have now but to be forgotten by those concerned in it.

By some means, arising out of wickedness, or out of folly, or out of inconceivable wild chance, or out of all three, this trouble has been made the occasion of misrepresentations, most grossly false, most monstrous, and most cruel—involving, not only me, but innocent persons dear to my heart, and innocent persons of whom I have no knowledge, if, indeed, they have any existence—and so widely spread, that I doubt if one reader in a thousand will peruse these lines, by whom some touch of the breath of these slanders will not have passed, like an unwholesome air.

Those who know me and my nature, need no assurance under my hand that such calumnies are as irreconcileable with me, as they are, in their frantic incoherence, with one another. But, there is a great multitude who know me through my writings, and who do not know me otherwise; and I cannot bear that one of them should be left in doubt, or hazard of doubt, through my poorly shrinking from taking the unusual means to which I now resort, of circulating the Truth.

I most solemnly declare, then—and this I do, both in my own name and in my wife's name—that all the lately whispered rumours touching the trouble at which I have glanced, are abominably false. And that whosoever repeats one of them after this denial, will lie as wilfully and as foully as it is possible for any false witness to lie, before Heaven and earth."



Charles Dickens said it better in 1858.

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He was so used to being paid by the word.

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That was just getting hit really hard and verbally berated. She never put her head on their laps.

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"If Woody Allen is now written into history as a monstrous child molester, child abuse is more likely to continue."

And if he is not, it is not? I tried. I tried to read his lengthy narrative. I don't understand the reasoning people who write these blogs use when they come up with if/then formulas like the one above or the one Aaron Bady conceited last week.

I agree that the archetypal language favored by Dylan Farrow is unfortunate. Her brother is "dead" to her and by pointing out that life is better for everybody in the Farrow household when mother is pleased is "the most evil betrayal" she has ever known.

I just don't understand. So many people really need help and are doing the most counter-productive things in public instead.

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A lot has happened in the decade since this conversation.

Docuseries, #MeToo, autobiographies etc.

I wonder if anybody has changed their mind? An interesting discussion, for sure, but since most of the people in this thread are long gone I'll probably never know.

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