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

If the end game is that you're looking to get people to acknowledge that there is an accusation that Woody molested you and maybe think about it then the Open Letter via the Times is probably your best bet (esp. since no one reads Vanity Fair, I guess). Anything else you do after that is probably not helping.

Not to get all "well here's what I would do if I was molested by Woody Allen twenty years ago" just saying that each successive link to People magazine takes this out of the realm of "real tragic event" and into "total crazy tabloid nonsense" and I can't imagine I'm alone there.

the whole "exclusive People Magazine scoop!" thing does weird me out, they pay for such revelations, correct? i mean given all the shit we've been discussing taking money from People Magazine is probably the least of anyone's sins, but it isn't the best look if your most powerful and convincing weapon is righteous outrage.

i get it. it's hard to stop talking about something you've suppressed for a long time once you've started talking about.

Um talking to People magazine not exactly the same release as talking to your shrink, your friends, your family.

If she wants to get the message out to as many people as possible, that's her prerogative. Sure, the initial open letter was available online and thus to anyone with an internet connection but the readership of the NYT and the readership of People are probably still a bit different in 2014.

especially since the Times' ombusman told Nicholas Kristof that he is not her lawyer.

Do the readership of People magazine give a shit about Woody Allen though?

seems pretty clear she only did the particular interview with People in direct reaction to that Moses Farrow article there calling her a liar

they didn't esp care about OJ when he was Detective Nordberg from the Naked Gun movies either.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n08mNz9f0FQ

I'd be surprised if People had a wider readership than the NYT, but maybe it's a vastly different demographic.

Maybe. Like it's been said, she probably can't take Woody to court anymore due to the statute of limitations blah blah so since we're all putting ourselves in the shoes of someone who was raped years ago, if I were her, I'd think that my message being spread to as many people as possible would be more important than the perception of a few people that it's "total crazy tabloid nonsense".

good point anon

the internet has a weird leveling effect - I never would have picked up a copy of people magazine but I will obviously read a "scoop" in people magazine online if it's something I care about

(acc to alexa nyt.com is substantially more popular than people.com)

Do the readership of People magazine give a shit about Woody Allen though?

― One bad call from barely losing to (Alex in SF), Thursday, February 6, 2014 9:26 PM (7 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

you mean people in waiting rooms and my aunts? yes

Could be that People magazine has more currency among Dylan/Moses' generation than ours

that seems highly unlikely. I thought it was kind of a dying brand.

People magazine will never die as long as waiting rooms exist.

Maybe People mag has greater currency among showbiz kids

What was the rag that I saw once on Entourage and everybody made a big deal about it? Variety? I have no idea what that is

Dylan spoke to PEOPLE shortly after she learned what her brother had said. Clearly anguished, she sobbed as she said, "My brother has broken my heart. Moses divorced himself from the family a long time ago. I always missed him. I loved him and I kept him in my thoughts. These lies – this betrayal – is unfathomable to me coming from a brother I loved and cherished and grew up with," she said.

most devoted People reader i know broke firmly with woody allen the first time around so they may be out in front on this one

What was the rag that I saw once on Entourage and everybody made a big deal about it? Variety? I have no idea what that is

― 龜, Thursday, February 6, 2014 9:49 PM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

you just aren't their aud (that's a latin word -- variety mag uses a lot of them! ;) )

Latin?? Tired of the blatant bias towards Occidentalism in Hollywood. End Occidental Hegemony Now

You really didn't know what Variety was? That's a big deal in Hollywood.

Thinking it was the Hollywood Reporter. The text was Green

http://www.boston.com/ae/theater_arts/exhibitionist/variety.jpg

it's not far off

trying to summarize this story in Variety lingo

Harrowing Farrows Knock Altecocker

Sick of this viridescent-bias in Hollywood. End Viridscent Hegemony Now; Promote A New Vermilion World Order

http://o.onionstatic.com/images/10/10443/3x4/120.jpg?6423

Item!

"Oh, wow." is basically the most memorable thing joan didion ever wrote (i have a terrible memory).

variety is kind of a shell of its former itself (for one thing, they ceased publishing a daily edition after over 100!!! years!!!) but it was until pretty damn recently without a doubt the most important magazine for the American (and possibly world) film, television, and theater industries ever.

i LOVE variety lingo.

also in case you didn't know http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sticks_nix_hick_pix

what was this thread about again?

it's hard to stop talking about something you've suppressed for a long time once you've started talking about.

― tɹi.ʃɪp (Treeship), Friday, February 7, 2014 2:17 AM (5 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

otm

Jon Lovett, former Obama speechwriter and a close friend of Ronan Farrow has been tweeting a lot of detail drawn from the actual court documents:

https://twitter.com/jonlovett

he's also linked extensively to a 1997 profile of the prosecutor in charge of the case with tons more clarifying detail about the investigation

http://www.connecticutmag.com/core/pagetools.php?pageid=14325&url=%2FBlog%2FConnecticut-Today%2FSeptember-2013%2FMia-Farrows-Vanity-Fair-Interview-References-1997-Connecticut-Magazine-Article%2F&mode=print

I believe Dylan and I need to stop reading this stuff. Nauseated.

http://dianesherlock.files.wordpress.com/2014/01/polanski-and-allen.jpg

"So how'd you beat the rap?"

"Ce n'est pas difficile!"

mia farrow is a polanski supporter, which in context is just O_O

source?

everywhere

farrow defended polanski in an unrelated issue involving a libel charge, not the rape case:

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/mia-farrow-defends-polanski/

everywhere

― espring (amateurist), Friday, February 7, 2014 2:50 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

this is one of THE dumbest posts I have ever read

"everyone knows that, lots of blogs are saying it"

its on googlr

she testified on his behalf

"everyone knows that, lots of blogs are saying it"

― Burt Stuntin (Hurting 2), Friday, February 7, 2014 1:57 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

more like, type it into google and you will find a lot of results at respectable news outlets

fwiw someone on twitter posted that she was still friends with roman polanski, to which mia replied "i'm not."

https://twitter.com/swin24/status/427933381553176576

she testified on his behalf in 2005 on an issue unrelated to the rape charge, and people who want to disparage the farrows (as if it even matters one iota to Dylan's credibility) are running with it, is all I can seem to see. Now suddenly they're best friends.