Mia Farrow's son -- Ronan Seamus Farrow -- really creeps me out!

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They're on MSNBC right now. He's incredibly well spoken for however old he is. They're talking about UNICEF and he's wildly wordly and savvy and earnest and, I'm sure, good hearted....but man.....he gives me the heebiejeebies.

http://www.broadwayworld.com/photoops/jumpers/mia.jpg

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Saturday, 14 May 2005 02:21 (twenty-one years ago)

Is he Woody's son?

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Saturday, 14 May 2005 02:23 (twenty-one years ago)

Does he want to use UNICEF for evil purposes?

xpost

Oh, does that have something to do with why you're creeped out?

― Sundar (sundar), Saturday, 14 May 2005 02:24 (twenty-one years ago)

Mia Farrow has a puppet face.

― Bryan (Bryan), Saturday, 14 May 2005 02:25 (twenty-one years ago)

Ah, so that's what happened to Maxwell Demon.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 14 May 2005 02:31 (twenty-one years ago)

That pic -- though well creepy -- doesn't do his inherent creepiness justice.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Saturday, 14 May 2005 02:42 (twenty-one years ago)

He looks like Kim Basinger.

― Bryan (Bryan), Saturday, 14 May 2005 02:43 (twenty-one years ago)

He looks like he was photoshopped into that picture.

― Melissa W (Melissa W), Saturday, 14 May 2005 02:46 (twenty-one years ago)

He also comes across as incredibly pious, righteous and sincere, as if he's undergone a severe humorectomy.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Saturday, 14 May 2005 03:15 (twenty-one years ago)

I don't think he'd do well in prison.

― Nancy Zerg, Saturday, 14 May 2005 04:43 (twenty-one years ago)

That depends on your definition of "well".

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Saturday, 14 May 2005 04:56 (twenty-one years ago)

he has nice lips. hmm how old did you say he was?

― phil-two (phil-two), Saturday, 14 May 2005 04:57 (twenty-one years ago)

He is Woody Allen's son! I know about it because I read Mia Farrow's autobio. You should read that if you're interested, it's really much, much more revealing than you'd expect. I wanted to know everything and I kind of found out more than I even wanted to know. I would repeat all the things I thought were interesting here but that would feel strange.

But Woody Allen is completely estranged from him.

― m.., Saturday, 14 May 2005 05:29 (twenty-one years ago)

Is he the child whose name Mia changed from Satchell?

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Saturday, 14 May 2005 05:31 (twenty-one years ago)

He looks like Kim Basinger.

I was thinking Scarlett Johansson

― ()ops (()()ps), Saturday, 14 May 2005 05:33 (twenty-one years ago)

He doesn't look half as creepy as Mia.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Saturday, 14 May 2005 06:02 (twenty-one years ago)

(And not just because Mia is old. She's always been vaguely creepy. I just watched Zelig again the other night, and she was not as creepy there as in some movies, but still.)

― Casuistry (Chris P), Saturday, 14 May 2005 06:03 (twenty-one years ago)

my ex used to know him. She said he was humorless.

― Remy (x Jeremy), Saturday, 14 May 2005 06:27 (twenty-one years ago)

oh isn't he s'posed to be very clever, finished high school early and went on to study law at some ivy league college?

― nathalie's baby (stevie nixed), Saturday, 14 May 2005 06:32 (twenty-one years ago)

christ,this aggressive irish-identity-assertion...like that distances her from woody. the whole idea that names constitute identity is more woodyesque than anything

― ciaran o'shaughnessy, Saturday, 14 May 2005 10:54 (twenty-one years ago)

yes, because there is no other purpose to Irish names, other than avoiding being taken for a Jew.

― april showers etc. (dymaxia), Saturday, 14 May 2005 11:03 (twenty-one years ago)

Granted, 'Ronan Seamus' is over the top, but....

― april showers etc. (dymaxia), Saturday, 14 May 2005 11:04 (twenty-one years ago)

Alex you have totally made this kid up! There are no matches on google for "Ronan Seamus Farrow" or even "Ronan Farrow".

― Gravel Puzzleworth (Gregory Henry), Saturday, 14 May 2005 11:35 (twenty-one years ago)

yes, because there is no other purpose to Irish names, other than avoiding being taken for a Jew.

Renaming your kids in the narrowest tune to your own lineage when they're what, like 8 years old, just after finding out their father (who had annointed them in his singular way) is screwing your adopted child...you're claiming she had motives other than to distance herself from him?

― siobhan o'malley, Saturday, 14 May 2005 14:09 (twenty-one years ago)

plus he was named after black US baseball player Satchell Paige! judging from the pic, I doubt "being taken for a Jew" was much of a concern here.

― m coleman (lovebug starski), Saturday, 14 May 2005 14:23 (twenty-one years ago)

connect the dots people. he's not woody allen's kid.

-child of mia farrow
-strangely well-spoken, mature beyond his years, knowledgeable of word events
-jerky

he's rosemary's baby!!!

― s1ocki (slutsky), Saturday, 14 May 2005 14:41 (twenty-one years ago)

Well, he has his father's eyes.

― Ken L (Ken L), Saturday, 14 May 2005 14:46 (twenty-one years ago)

Actually Ronan up there in his hermaphroditical way reminds me of nobody more than Mr. B Natural:

http://www.msties.com/spotlite/mrb-b.jpg

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 14 May 2005 14:50 (twenty-one years ago)

i wonder if he vanity-googles!

― s1ocki (slutsky), Saturday, 14 May 2005 14:52 (twenty-one years ago)

Your search - "ronan seamus farrow" - did not match any documents.

Suggestions:

- Make sure all words are spelled correctly.
- Try different keywords.
- Try more general keywords.

we're totally going to be the only result!!

― s1ocki (slutsky), Saturday, 14 May 2005 14:53 (twenty-one years ago)

rosemary's baby is gonna get us!!!

― s1ocki (slutsky), Saturday, 14 May 2005 14:53 (twenty-one years ago)

AHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!

― s1ocki (slutsky), Saturday, 14 May 2005 14:53 (twenty-one years ago)

I have the dark power of my hair to protect me.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 14 May 2005 14:54 (twenty-one years ago)

well i freakin' don't!

― s1ocki (slutsky), Saturday, 14 May 2005 14:55 (twenty-one years ago)

The time is now. Find a wig.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 14 May 2005 14:56 (twenty-one years ago)

The googling goes much better if you search for "Seamus Farrow".

― Casuistry (Chris P), Saturday, 14 May 2005 16:58 (twenty-one years ago)

knowledgeable of word events

he is a poet

― cozen (Cozen), Saturday, 14 May 2005 17:04 (twenty-one years ago)

He has the bee-stung lips of young Macauly Culkin.

― M J, Saturday, 14 May 2005 18:25 (twenty-one years ago)

he looks like natalie portman.

― cozen (Cozen), Saturday, 14 May 2005 21:32 (twenty-one years ago)

he wears a coat of many colours.

― cozen (Cozen), Saturday, 14 May 2005 21:33 (twenty-one years ago)

A COAT OF MANY COLOURS!

― cozen (Cozen), Saturday, 14 May 2005 21:33 (twenty-one years ago)

Somebody make him stop looking at me that way!

― Rock Hardy (Rock Hardy), Saturday, 14 May 2005 21:35 (twenty-one years ago)

He looks like a motherfucker with some dark secrets.

― Jordan (Jordan), Saturday, 14 May 2005 22:54 (twenty-one years ago)

Awwww!

http://www.aftonbladet.se/nyheter/0501/30/NYHETER-30s14-woodyseamus-866.jpg

― Gravel Puzzleworth (Gregory Henry), Saturday, 14 May 2005 23:38 (twenty-one years ago)

He looks just like Mia in Rosemary's Baby, even the haircut is the same.

― Leon Federline (Ex Leon), Sunday, 15 May 2005 00:52 (twenty-one years ago)

see?!

― s1ocki (slutsky), Sunday, 15 May 2005 15:52 (twenty-one years ago)

eight months pass...

We're the seventh hit, actually.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 14 February 2006 23:35 (twenty years ago)

A reasonable placement.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 14 February 2006 23:37 (twenty years ago)

http://www.tuxjunction.net/Tommy%20Dorsey/sinatra.gif

― mark s (mark s), Tuesday, 14 February 2006 23:43 (twenty years ago)

bah he has a look of FS but i can't prove it by optics

― mark s (mark s), Tuesday, 14 February 2006 23:45 (twenty years ago)

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― balls, Sunday, 4 May 2014 02:29 (twelve years ago)

Josh Marshall ‏@joshtpm 1h -- WTF!? Now Ronan Farrow's getting appointed exec editor of the Times? That's just not right. Can you believe this?

lol, waht?

― Daniel, Esq 2, Saturday, 17 May 2014 17:22 (twelve years ago)

i feel like his TV show kind of burst the hype bubble about him being this crazy savant, he's just a smug asshole rushing to the lowest common denominator like everyone else on cable news.

― display name changed. (amateurist), Saturday, 17 May 2014 20:53 (twelve years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JrKpHPv1GpM

― °ㅇ๐ْ ° (gr8080), Tuesday, 27 May 2014 21:03 (twelve years ago)

one month passes...

So this NYT story "A Master of Illusion Endures: For Woody Allen's Next Trick, Shrugging Off Bad Publicity" (http://www.nytimes.com/2014/07/20/movies/for-woody-allens-next-trick-shrugging-off-bad-publicity.html) doesn't mention Dylan Farrow until halfway through, pretty much only to brush off concerns that the controversy will impact his box office, and is mostly a glowing profile of Allen and his films, pretty cool pretty cool

― Immediate Follower (NA), Wednesday, 16 July 2014 21:01 (eleven years ago)

this thing is creepy right from the title - what a guy to praise in terms of his ability to deceive.

― da croupier, Wednesday, 16 July 2014 21:23 (eleven years ago)

like even if you believe he's innocent, or just want to talk about his films as films, it's still extremely poor taste to defiantly valorize him in these "oh what a brilliantly pleasing but fraudulent stories he tells! What a trickster!" terms.

― da croupier, Wednesday, 16 July 2014 21:27 (eleven years ago)

NYT coverage of him has been nauseating for about a decade, do keep up

― Οὖτις, Wednesday, 16 July 2014 21:28 (eleven years ago)

what happened in 2004

― da croupier, Wednesday, 16 July 2014 21:31 (eleven years ago)

did the grey lady's worm turn on melinda and melinda or match point

― da croupier, Wednesday, 16 July 2014 21:31 (eleven years ago)

match point

― Οὖτις, Wednesday, 16 July 2014 21:32 (eleven years ago)

i really like emma stone. i think i am going to see this movie.

― Treeship, Wednesday, 16 July 2014 21:35 (eleven years ago)

one year passes...

offered w/out comment

https://ronanfarrowletter.wordpress.com/

― we can be heroes just for about 3.6 seconds (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 1 June 2016 16:18 (ten years ago)

Yeah, a prominent Danish film critic shared that. The same shit the author has said over and over (the Yale-investigation was discredited by the custody court, for instance). It's kinda creepy that he would create a whole webpage for it, though.

― Frederik B, Wednesday, 1 June 2016 16:42 (ten years ago)

people shouldn't be blamed for things their mother said 40 years ago

― Treeship, Wednesday, 1 June 2016 16:55 (ten years ago)

People probably shouldn't even be blamed for things they themselves said 40 years ago. Also, wasn't a pretty big part of Ronans letter about how he himself fell into the same traps in his work in the media?

― Frederik B, Wednesday, 1 June 2016 17:03 (ten years ago)

three years pass...

sometimes I wonder what weird psychodrama compels Ronan to maintain this fiction that Frank Sinatra is not his dad

― Οὖτις, Wednesday, 8 January 2020 16:57 (six years ago)

i feel he doesn't lack for options in the psychodramas-to-hand dept

(tho i guess it wd be fun to discover it was actually one none of us had to date heard about)

― mark s, Wednesday, 8 January 2020 17:07 (six years ago)

("fun")

― mark s, Wednesday, 8 January 2020 17:07 (six years ago)

Maybe it's weird enough to have a fake real dad 50 years your senior without having to entertain the notion of a real real dad who was old enough to have been your weirdly-old fake real dad's real dad.

― Drive Like a Demon From Steakhouse to Steakhouse (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 8 January 2020 17:08 (six years ago)

This seems legit?

https://www.mercurynews.com/2015/11/24/frank-sinatra-is-definitely-not-ronan-farrows-biological-father/

In an interview Monday on NPR’s “Diane Rehm Show,” James Kaplan, author of the second volume of “Sinatra: The Chairman,” said there is no way the “My Way” singer could have gotten together with ex-wife Mia Farrow and conceived Ronan, 27, around March 1987.

That’s because, at the time, Sinatra was incapacitated and impotent following a major abdominal surgery three months earlier that involved removal of 12 feet of intestine. He was recovering in Hawaii with his fourth wife, Barbara, and wearing what was essentially a colostomy bag, Kaplan said.

― brownie, Wednesday, 8 January 2020 17:18 (six years ago)

damn frank was 71 when he obviously fathered ronan

― american bradass (BradNelson), Wednesday, 8 January 2020 17:23 (six years ago)

as w/ the JFK assassination, none of us know shit

― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 8 January 2020 17:26 (six years ago)

Kaplan bio is what prompted my revive tbh

― Οὖτις, Wednesday, 8 January 2020 17:28 (six years ago)

He was recovering in Hawaii with his fourth wife, Barbara, and wearing what was essentially a colostomy bag, Kaplan said.

"Damn, he's good."

― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 8 January 2020 17:35 (six years ago)

When need to follow Ronan around and snag a cup he drank from, then do DNA testing, detective style.

― nickn, Wednesday, 8 January 2020 18:11 (six years ago)

I'm going to need him to cover "Some Velvet Morning" to see if there's any family resemblance.

― Greta Van Show Feets BB (milo z), Wednesday, 8 January 2020 18:14 (six years ago)

Mia actually meant Frank Sinatra JR. when discussing Ronan's parentage.

― a bevy of supermodels, musicians and Lena Dunham (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 8 January 2020 18:45 (six years ago)

Source involved in Weinstein trial tells me close to 50 potential jurors have been sent home because they said they’d read Catch and Kill.
— Ronan Farrow (@RonanFarrow) January 10, 2020

― ... (Eazy), Friday, 10 January 2020 02:22 (six years ago)

last time I checked you didn't need all your intestines to father a child

― akm, Friday, 10 January 2020 02:27 (six years ago)

and as for whether mia would have fucked an old frank with a colostomy bag....well she married woody allen which is pretty much the same thing

― akm, Friday, 10 January 2020 02:28 (six years ago)

yeah, she didn't.

― by the light of the burning Citroën, Friday, 10 January 2020 02:29 (six years ago)

Frank - 12 feet of intestine + colostomy bag > Woody Allen

― An Oral History of Deez Nutz (PBKR), Friday, 10 January 2020 02:42 (six years ago)

How is there any doubt that Sinatra is his father?

― Mario Meatwagon (Moodles), Friday, 10 January 2020 02:44 (six years ago)

Because he can't sing?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zMlUktaLv_w

― Josefa, Friday, 10 January 2020 02:51 (six years ago)

neither can nancy really

― akm, Friday, 10 January 2020 02:54 (six years ago)

lol

― Dan S, Friday, 10 January 2020 02:55 (six years ago)

Frank Jr. a shittier singer than Nancy tbrr

― Οὖτις, Friday, 10 January 2020 03:16 (six years ago)

Frank - 12 feet of intestine + colostomy bag > Woody Allen

Frank vs. Woody kinda an interesting matchup tbh. I’m not sure who’s got the superior body of work.

― Οὖτις, Friday, 10 January 2020 03:18 (six years ago)

i forgot frank jr even existed

― akm, Friday, 10 January 2020 03:18 (six years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xKsbx4meBTY

― Josefa, Friday, 10 January 2020 03:58 (six years ago)

xpost -- this old Tom Junod piece on Frank Jr. from 1994 is a hell of a thing

https://thestacks.deadspin.com/frank-sinatra-jr-is-worth-six-buddy-grecos-1000516479

― Ned Raggett, Friday, 10 January 2020 04:47 (six years ago)

oooof

― Banáná hÉireann (darraghmac), Friday, 10 January 2020 09:47 (six years ago)

neither can nancy really

― akm, Friday, January 10, 2020 2:54 AM (nine hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

You're saying nowadays Nancy can't even sing?

― ☮️ (peace, man), Friday, 10 January 2020 12:40 (six years ago)

*applause*

― Pinche Cumbion Bien Loco (stevie), Friday, 10 January 2020 12:46 (six years ago)

Pretty much every time Frank Jr. is evoked it takes a minute for me to remember that he isn't Garry Lewis.

― Drive Like a Demon From Steakhouse to Steakhouse (Old Lunch), Friday, 10 January 2020 13:01 (six years ago)

five years pass...

Exercising his 2nd Amendment rights in the Criterion Closet:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9rWNIjNh3sE

― Lithium Just Madison (C. Grisso/McCain), Friday, 15 August 2025 23:47 (nine months ago)

there's no way it's true

https://akns-images.eonline.com/eol_images/Entire_Site/201532/rs_1024x759-150402082046-1024.Ronan-Farrow-Frank-Sinatra.jl.040215.jpg

― Andy the Grasshopper, Saturday, 16 August 2025 00:05 (nine months ago)

Need a photo of Woody Allen that size to make my final decision

― Josefa, Saturday, 16 August 2025 02:47 (nine months ago)

I'm guessing he doesn't choose Annie Hall in that closet

also this guy is a pretty great journalist and writer, Catch and Kill was totally engrossing

― I? not I! He! He! HIM! (akm), Saturday, 16 August 2025 06:01 (nine months ago)

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