So, about this Woody Allen and Frank Sinatra thing- Page 2

[strummergirl]

Posted: 10/2/13 at 5:32pm

"Mia Farrow played the "victim card" knowing she was cheating...

She was a year younger than Soon-Yi when she married a man more than twice her age. Then she continues to have sex with him during another marriage and another long term relationship.

Woody Allen may have his 'issues', but I think Farrow has no room to criticize him.

Hopefully Ronan is able to keep a healthy outlook on life. Love his tweet."

This take is a little unsettling when the Vanity Fair article revisit heavily focuses on the custody battles and Dylan Farrow's accusations of abuse from Allen. She's still sticking with that story.

Woody and Mia may have had an open relationship (not an official marriage) but I don't know, an affair with your stepdaughter seems like a bridge too far.

If you look up the kids, they all hate him. Plenty of them were old enough to have realized what happened. Fletcher Previn's take probably is how most of her children feel:
http://www.vanityfair.com/online/daily/2013/10/mia-farrow-children-family-scandal#slideshow_slideshow_Fletcher-Previn-in-2013_3

I like plenty of Woody Allen movies but I think 'issues' is describing the situation lightly.

[NYadgal]

Posted: 10/2/13 at 5:37pm

I didn't read the Vanity Fair article, and have no intention of doing so (because I don't really care to learn more about them), but I believe that the allegations of abuse were never proven. I can't help but wonder how all of this publicity helps the family?

I think they all have their 'issues' and there are many layers to this.

Otherwise, I don't really give any of them much thought.

Updated On: 10/2/13 at 05:37 PM

[strummergirl]

Posted: 10/2/13 at 5:51pm

How? They're a family of activists and primarily work in global humanitarianism.

Mia's from Old Hollywood. I think she was set for life a long time ago through her parents.

I just never got a thought of narcissism or need for the spotlight from her. Anger and betrayal, yes, but I imagine that is not an enviable position to be in.

[NYadgal]

Posted: 10/2/13 at 5:57pm

...and my take on her is a little different, I guess.
And, it's only my opinion, so I'm not asking anyone to feel the way I do.

The generation of their children who are doing good work are to be admired. I respect what I read about her son today.

Updated On: 10/2/13 at 05:57 PM

[Unknown User]

Posted: 10/2/13 at 5:58pm

The more you hear, the more you think the Allen/Farrow/Sinatra/Previn quadrangle (octagon?) all had it coming.

[Reginald Tresilian]

Posted: 10/2/13 at 6:20pm

Addy, I'm with you on this. Of course, none of us know what actually went on, but there are a lot of reasons to doubt the version of events presented by Mia.

[Jane2]

Posted: 10/2/13 at 6:25pm

She kept this a secret until now? huh?

I think he looks more like Mia than Frank.

Anyway, I agree, who cares.

[StockardFan]

Posted: 10/2/13 at 7:03pm

I think he looks like Mia too.

[Reginald Tresilian]

Posted: 10/2/13 at 7:06pm

He definitely does. But it's not hard to see Frank, too. And impossible to see Woody. Of course, genes do strange things, so who knows?

[Jane2]

Posted: 10/2/13 at 7:53pm

Oh, he definitely does not have the Woody Allen look, luckily. They just showed Ronan as a teenager on ET and he looked EXACTLY like Mia in Rosemary's Baby.

[javero]

Posted: 10/2/13 at 8:22pm

lol @ "Oh, he definitely does not have the Woody Allen look, luckily."

This is far more commonplace than many are comfortable admitting. Whenever we lay older family members to rest, several cousins and I bet on who will meet a new sibling at the funeral. What never ceases to amaze me is how frequently this occurs in the old south among first-rate bible thumpers of all hues.

[PalJoey]

Posted: 10/2/13 at 9:57pm

What would it mean if Ronan turns out to be Frank Sinatra's son and Prince Harry turns out to be James Hewitt's?

At least we know that John-John was JFK's...

[Jon]

Posted: 10/3/13 at 8:33am

Soon-Yi was not was not Woody's "step-daughter". Woody and Mia never married. Never even lived in the same apartment. Woody was not a "father" to Soon-Yi. She has a father. His name is Andre Previn.

Woody fell in love with his girlfriend's adopted daughter.

[PalJoey]

Posted: 10/3/13 at 10:26am

"All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way."

--Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

[Reginald Tresilian]

Posted: 10/3/13 at 10:40am

"All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way. And don't even get me started on the Sinatra-Farrow-Allen mishegoss."

--Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina (first draft)

[tazber]

Posted: 10/3/13 at 10:43am

Is there such a thing as a happy family?

[Jay Lerner-Z]

Posted: 10/3/13 at 10:43pm

^Certainly not happy families like we see in sitcoms or TV, but I would say "yes".

Somebody said earlier that it's impossible to see Woody in Ronan, but I'm not so sure - in looks, perhaps, but he has often demonstrated a sense of humor and a capacity for one-liners quite reminiscent of Woody.

Oh wait, this is yesterday's news. Moving on...

[PalJoey]

Posted: 10/3/13 at 10:59pm

Yes but the capacity for quick wit can be learned from a group of friends or an adopted father (or adopted mother's longtime constant companion or whatever).

But those big Blue Eyes are biologically Frank's and nor Woody's or Mia's.

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 10/3/13 at 11:32pm

Has he got a set of pipes on him? Can he swing, baby?

[SweetLips]

Posted: 10/5/13 at 4:13am

Ring-a-ding-ding!!!Who cares if he can sing or whose son he is---he's GORGEOUS !!I'll be his Daddy.

[JerseyGirl2]

Posted: 10/5/13 at 8:42am

My kid is almost 8 months and has many of my mannerisms and she has absolutely no biological connection to me. My best friend's son is the spitting image of his biological mom but acts exactly my friend, who has no bio connection. Of course he has Woody's sense of humor.

[Jay Lerner-Z]

Posted: 10/6/13 at 8:55pm

Why of course?

He's had nothing to do with Woody all these years.

[sabrelady]

Posted: 10/6/13 at 11:37pm

Beware of young girls who come to your door,
Simple and shy, Just twenty and four.

Dory Previn

[JerseyGirl2]

Posted: 10/7/13 at 7:27am

The first few years are critical to personality development. I guess I don't mean "of course", but it's not odd, at all.

[finebydesign]

Posted: 10/7/13 at 2:34pm

Fletcher Previn, 39, is his mother’s protector. He built his first computer at age 13, and he painstakingly Photoshopped Woody Allen out of every single family photo and edited him out of family videos so that none of them would ever have to see him again.

“We can look at them and be reminded of the good and not be reminded of the bad.” —