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Disgraced filmmaker Woody Allen likened the late Jeffrey Epstein to Dracula and recalled Epstein’s New York City home filled “often by several young women” in a letter the Manhattan director wrote to the late financier and convicted sex offender for his 63rd birthday in 2016.

The letter, a photocopy of which was included in a recent New York Times story about Epstein’s Upper East Side townhome, recounted dinner parties that Allen and wife Soon-Yi Previn attended as neighbors. Allen said the home reminded him of “Castle Dracula where [Bela] Lugosi has three young female vampires who service the place. Add to this that Jeffrey lives in a vast house alone, one can picture him sleeping in damp earth.”

The parties Allen mentioned were also attended by “politicians, scientists, teachers, magicians, comedians, intellectuals, journalists, an entymologist, a concert pianist,” the filmmaker added. Nearly six years after Epstein was found dead in his jail cell,...

Chelsea Handler thought she’d just be enjoying a nice dinner with her pal Katie Couric alongside “all these random people in New York City,” she said earlier this year on an episode of the On With Kara Swisher podcast. As the friends took their places at the table, Handler didn’t think much of the two empty chairs across from her and Couric — until “in comes Soon-Yi Previn and Woody Allen.”

Handler swears she didn’t know they were coming. “I’m like, Oh no, I can’t do this,” she remembered. “There’s no way that I will get through this dinner.”

She began kicking Couric under the table, a signal that she couldn’t endure a dinner seated across from Woody Allen without an outburst of some kind.

“Can you wait?” begged Couric.

“Wait for what?”

“Can you at least just wait until the end of the dinner?...

Sean Penn, the Academy Award winner and star of films like Mystic River, The Thin Red Line and Milk, is once again adding fuel to the already raging bonfire of Hollywood controversies. This time, he's done it by defending one of the industry's prime examples of "canceled" public figures. Penn's latest incendiary remarks regard fellow Academy Award winner Woody Allen, with Penn saying, despite the allegations of sexual abuse that have been leveled against the filmmaker, he would work with the Annie Hall director "in a heartbeat."

It is not a secret that Allen has become one of the most controversial figures in modern cinema. In the early 1990s, his ex-wife, actress Mia Farrow, accused him of sexually abusing their adopted daughter, Dylan, when she was seven-years old. However, many in Hollywood have largely ignored these accusations and continued to work with him. During the beginnings of the MeToo movement,...

Sean Penn expressed doubt that Woody Allen sexually abused his daughter, Dylan Farrow, and stated that he has no qualms about working with the director in the future.

In an open letter to The New York Times in 2014, Farrow came forward to accuse Allen, her adopted father, of molesting her when she was seven. The accusation came a few months after Farrow found out that Allen had begun a relationship with his then-21-year-old adopted daughter Soon-Yi Previn. Allen has long denied Farrow’s allegations and was never charged with the crime. Four years later, Farrow wrote an op-ed in The Los Angeles Times, positing the question, “Why has the #MeToo revolution spared Woody Allen?”

Allen recently said that he may not make another movie due to his “cancellation” by Hollywood.

Penn previously worked with Allen in the 1999 musical comedy Sweet and Lowdown, along with actors Uma Thurman, Anthony Lapaglia and Samantha Morton.

Following the success of the Bob Dylan biopic, A Complete Unknown, many fans are surely discovering more details about the famed musician, and one of the shocking information they have certainly found out was his alleged beef with filmmaker Woody Allen.

It’s been a long time since Dylan made a startling statement about the veteran director, who was embroiled in a disgraceful controversy following his marriage to Soon-Yi Previn, the adopted daughter of Mia Farrow, Allen’s former girlfriend.

Woody Allen / Credits: CBS Sunday Morning Bob Dylan allegedly hated Woody Allen so much that he vowed to smack him in the face

It’s no secret that Bob Dylan displayed bouts of aggression throughout his career. Whether this was something innate in him or a coping mechanism to deal with the pressure of Hollywood fame, we don’t know, but we do know that he had once threatened to...

Even the most anti-war artists of the 21st century could bring themselves to violence in extreme circumstances — such as when they saw Woody Allen’s stupid, smarmy, unpunched face.

Nowadays, it would be neither newsworthy nor noteworthy for anyone with convictions to say that they wish they could give comedy filmmaking legend and accused child molester Woody Allen a smack that would make his head spin faster than ours did when Allen became his own father-in-law. Allen’s filmmaking career continued on mostly unimpeded after he left his romantic partner Mia Farrow for her 21-year-old adopted daughter Soon-Yi Previn in 1992, but the court of public opinion has somewhat soured on the Annie Hall star and director in the decades since, especially after Allen’s biological daughter Dylan accused him of sexual assault.

But long before film fans everywhere and Allen’s own family hated his guts, Bob Dylan hated Allen...

The Blake Lively and Justin Baldoni feud seems to have only started and is expected to get exponentially much more complicated as the drama unfolds. Having filed a complaint against Baldoni, accusing him of s*xual harassment, Lively also claimed the actor and his team tried to run a smear campaign against her.

Blake Lively and Justin Baldoni in It Ends With Us | Credits: Sony Pictures Releasing

Meanwhile, Baldoni first filed a libel suit against the New York Times for reporting Lively’s allegations and then a $400 million lawsuit against Lively and Ryan Reynolds. With more and more evidence emerging and public opinion turning in favor of Baldoni, the Gossip Girl star’s problems don’t seem to end as her past comments about Woody Allen have come back to haunt her.

Blake Lively’s comments about Woody Allen resurface amid It Ends with Us drama Credits: Woody Allen in...

There’s always a hidden agenda, an unseen twist, and a voice waiting to speak out. Kjersti Flaa, the journalist, has had enough of the ‘blind support’ that seems to overshadow critical thinking. Her recent latest comments hit the entertainment world like a lightning bolt, as she accuses Blake Lively of hypocrisy, particularly in her dealings with the controversial filmmaker Woody Allen.

Blake Lively in It Ends with Us | Credits: Sony Pictures Releasing

Flaa’s outburst comes after a series of lawsuits have embroiled Hollywood heavyweights like Justin Baldoni, who recently filed a lawsuit against The New York Times and allegedly hinted at future legal actions targeting Lively herself.

But it’s the accusations about Lively’s ties to Allen that are sparking the most heated conversations. Speaking out in a video, Flaa expressed her disbelief at how people blindly support women—without truly looking at the bigger picture. She...

Marshall Brickman, the Oscar-winning co-writer of Annie Hall, has died. Per The New York Times, Brickman’s daughter, Sophie, confirmed his death but did not report a cause. He was 85.

Best known as the co-screenwriter of Woody Allen’s most revered work, Sleeper, Annie Hall, Manhattan, and, later, Manhattan Murder Mystery,...

The controversy within the family of Woody Allen and his former partner Mia Farrow created a lot of buzz on social media, but nothing was more intriguing and disturbing than the case of Soon-Yi Previn, the actress’ adopted daughter.

Credits: Woody Allen in CBS Sunday Morning

Previn is married to the veteran filmmaker, and they share two children. They weren’t on good terms during their first meeting when her mother was still with Allen, and she was only 10 years old. Things took a different turn when they got to know each other.

Soon-Yi Previn Never Liked Woody Allen When They Met For the First Time

In her interview with Vulture, Soon-Yi Previn shared how she first met renowned director Woody Allen and her first impression of him. She was only a child and recalled not liking the man at first sight. He was not enthusiastic about meeting the kids,...

Rebecca Hall is reflecting on her public statement denouncing director Woody Allen six years after the abuse allegations resurfaced.

After Allen’s ex-wife Mia Farrow’s adopted daughter Dylan Farrow wrote an opinion piece for the Los Angeles Times calling out actors who still collaborate with the alleged molester, Hall shared on Instagram in 2018 that she had second thoughts about starring in Allen’s “A Rainy Day in New York.” Hall had previously led Allen’s 2008 film “Vicky Cristina Barcelona.”

“After reading and re-reading Dylan Farrow’s statements of a few days ago and going back and reading the older ones – I see, not only how complicated this matter is, but that my actions have made another woman feel silenced and dismissed,” Hall wrote at the time. “That is not something that sits easily with me in the current or indeed any moment, and I am profoundly sorry. I regret...

Academy Award-winning filmmaker and longtime-accused sexual predator Woody Allen and his wife made a rare public appearance when they were spotted at a launch party for a sex app’s magazine on Wednesday.

Although Allen and his wife Soon-Yi Previn did not stay at the event long, their presence was unusual as they have been “notably missing” from New York City’s social scene after the #MeToo movement.

The event launched a “heavyweight literary magazine” called AFM, made by a kink-tailored dating app.

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The app, Feeld, markets itself as “the dating app for the curious,” and gives its users the ability to filter people by different hookup scenarios.

Allen’s adopted step-daughter, Dylan Farrow, first accused Allen of sexual misconduct in 1992; Allen denied the allegations and was not charged. Over the years, Farrow...

Few horror movies are as fantastic or as retroactively controversial as "Rosemary's Baby." Decades after its release, what are we to make of a movie about a woman's bodily agency that was made by a man –- Roman Polanski –- who was later convicted of statutory rape? It's just one of several tricky questions that's elicited by any thorough look back at the film; in addition to Polanski's life story, both of the movie's surviving cast members (see below) have been embroiled in their own complex and traumatic situations in the years since the film debuted in 1968.

It's a tricky legacy for a phenomenal movie that works on the strengths of all involved, including a powerful young Mia Farrow, who turns Polanski's already-sharp take on Ira Levin's great book into something unforgettable. Most of the other actors who made the film a classic are gone now, including John Cassavettes...

Mia Farrow understands if actors want to continue to collaborate with Woody Allen. That's surprising, given the history between the two; their 12-year romantic relationship concluded after Farrow discovered nude pics of her adopted daughter Soon-Yi Previn that Allen had taken. Following their split, things got worse. Farrow and Allen's adopted daughter Dylan, then 7, made allegations of molestation against the Academy Award-winning filmmaker.

While appearing on CBS Sunday Mornings on September 1, journalist Seth Doane asked Farrow:

"Are you able to separate the experience as an actor in those films from the personal trials and tribulations that would follow?"

Farrow responded:

"Oh yeah, yeah.I com pletely understand if an actor decides to work with him. I'm not one who'd say, 'Oh, they shouldn't.'"

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Mia Farrow is addressing actors who are still working with her ex Woody Allen.

If you didn’t know, the 79-year-old Rosemary’s Baby actress was in a relationship with the 88-year-old Annie Hall filmmaker from 1980 to 1992 and during their relationship, they made 13 films together.

Back in the early ’90s, Mia and daughter Dylan Farrow publicly accused Woody of molesting his adopted daughter when she was 7, but he as adamantly denied the allegations.

In a new interview, Mia admitted that she has no hard feelings about actors who have continued to work with Woody despite the allegations about him.

Keep reading to find out more…“And I complete understand if an actor decides to work with him,” Mia shared on CBS Sunday Morning. “I’m not one to say, ‘Oh they shouldn’t.’”

Mia also admitted that she is “at peace” today, following the allegations she made against Woody and...

Mia Farrow doesn’t want to tell fellow actors whom they should or “shouldn’t” work with, even if it’s a matter of working with her former partner Woody Allen, who was accused by Farrow’s adopted daughter Dylan Farrow of molestation.

The allegations against writer/director Allen were made public in 1992. Allen went on to later marry Farrow’s other adopted daughter Soon-Yi Previn. His career has been marred by the allegations; however, Allen has continued to helm features that starred notable actors in the years since the controversy.

Farrow recently said during “CBS Sunday Morning” that she does not hold actors’ decisions to work with Allen against them.

“I completely understand if an actor decides to work with him,” Farrow said. “I’m not one who’d say, ‘Oh, they shouldn’t.’”

Allen confirmed in 2022 that he was not retiring anytime soon, and was helming his 50th film.

Unlike a lot of Hollywood, Mia Farrow doesn’t seem to have a problem with actors working with her ex-husband, Woody Allen.

The actress appeared on CBS Sunday Morning alongside her The Roommate co-star Patti LuPone ahead of the Broadway show’s opening night on Sept. 12. While discussing her life, Farrow’s relationship with Allen came up, as well as the accusations that he molested their adopted then-7-year-old daughter, Dylan Farrow.

Farrow and Allen worked together on 13 films. When CBS News correspondent Seth Doane asked her if she was able to separate her experience as an actor in those films from the “trials and tribulations” that followed, she said she was.

“Oh yeah, yeah,” Farrow said. “And I completely understand if an actor decides to work with him. I’m not one who’d say, ‘Oh, they shouldn’t.'”

The actress told the news network that she is “at peace” today,...

Once upon a time, four-time Academy Award-winner Woody Allen was considered one of America's finest filmmakers. There was a realistic and lived-in feeling to his characters, all of whom were armed with a tongue so sharp they could shred a piece of paper into confetti. Allen often acted in his films, and his distinct vocal inflections and pattern of speaking made him a figure like William Shatner, Christopher Walken, and Arnold Schwarzenegger in that just about everyone has a Woody Allen impression. But the now semi-retired filmmaker is known for more than just his filmography, trademark stammer, or repetitive statements — Allen has also been accused of sexually assaulting his adoptive daughter Dylan Farrow and made headlines when he married his former partner Mia Farrow's adoptive step-daughter Soon-Yi Previn, despite having known her since she was 10 years old.

To call Woody Allen a controversial figure is a massive understatement, but...

The Simpsons hasn’t exactly shied away from including references to Woody Allen over the years, such as when Bart and Homer spotted him shooting a Japanese rice cracker commercial, or when he was seen hammering out Chinese fortune cookie messages, or the time he was absolutely torn apart by the comic stylings of McBain.

But while these jokes were obviously intended to demean the Oscar-winning filmmaker/accused sexual predator, the show once came very close to including an innocuous Allen reference at the worst possible time.

The second segment in “Treehouse of Horror III” was the King Kong parody “King Homer,” which ends with an old-timey newspaper spinning into frame bearing the headline “Woman Weds Ape.” Just below it is the headline “Dick Cavett Born,” featuring an image of a fully adult Dick Cavett.

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Which is a funny joke, but if you pause the scene right as the newspaper is spinning,...

Woody Allen's Annie Hall revolutionized romantic comedy, earning "The Big 5" Oscar nominations and winning four. The film's use of fourth wall breaks, split screens, and modern discussions on love was ahead of its time. While Annie Hall was a hit, some scenes have not aged well, prompting viewers to reexamine its problematic elements.

Woody Allen's Annie Hall was a groundbreaking romantic comedy when it was first released, but Allen's personal life since then and some elements of the film itself have left a bad taste in many viewers' mouths. Annie Hall is a staple of the romantic comedy genre and the seventh movie from the acclaimed actor, director, and producer. The film was a hit critically and commercially and ensured Allen would be considered among the greatest filmmakers of his contemporaries. Since 1977, he's directed 45 movies and still continues to work, though no longer in Hollywood.

Allen's personal life has...

Despite earning acclaim for his work, Hollywood filmmaker, Woody Allen, has continued to be a controversial figure in the industry. The filmmaker is also known for his nuanced yet problematic portrayal of women in his movies.

Woody Allen | Credit: Georges Biard via Wikimedia Commons

While he seems appreciative of women’s complexity, his portrayals always hint at underlying tension with lingering shots and camera angles that have raised concern about objectification. And his opinions don’t seem to have changed much as an excerpt from his 2020 memoir suggests where he talks about the leading ladies of his 2008 movie, Vicky Cristina Barcelona.

Woody Allen’s Controversial Take on Scarlett Johansson And Penelope Cruz

Starring Penelope Cruz and Scarlett Johansson alongside Javier Bardem, Woody Allen’s 2008 romantic drama Vicky Cristina Barcelona follows two close friends on a summer holiday in Barcelona, who become entangled with a charming artist.

The film features close relationships between the characters,...

Timothée Chalamet worked together with Woody Allen in the 2019 film, A Rainy Day In New York. However, the Dune actor later regretted the decision to work together with the director after allegations of s*xual abuse once again surfaced against Allen. Allen accused that Chalamet denounced him as part of a PR stunt to improve his winning chances at the Oscars in 2018.

Timothée Chalamet in a still from Woody Allen’s A Rainy Day in New York | MPI Media Group

The Annie Hall director was accused of inappropriate behavior towards his and Mia Farrow’s daughter Dylan Farrow in 1992. While he denied the allegations at the time, they once again resurfaced during the Me Too movement.

Woody Allen Claims Timothée Chalamet’s Regret Of Working With Him Was A PR Stunt Woody Allen in an interview | CBS News

Woody Allen worked with an ensemble cast including Timothée Chalamet, Selena Gomez,...

Watching Woody Allen's 1979 romantic comedy "Manhattan" in 2024 is certainly a fraught affair. For decades after its release, "Manhattan" was hailed as one of the filmmaker's best, frankly and stylishly telling a story of modern New York life, revealing the embarrassing impulses of a neurotic man struggling through his own acknowledged sexual and romantic weaknesses. In the film, Allen plays Isaac, a 42-year-old, twice-divorced comedy writer trying to pen a book about how much he loves New York City. As part of his midlife crisis, he is romantically and sexually involved with Tracy (Mariel Hemingway), a 17-year-old prep school student.

Allen's fictional relationship with an underage girl was, at the time, seen as a strange quirk of the modern cosmopolitan arts milieu, and many critics remained unconcerned. It wouldn't be for a few more years, in 1991, that details of Allen's personal life would begin to emerge. He married the much-younger...

Bill Maher decided to just absolutely go for it — it being defending Woody Allen to the hilt and calling Dylan Farrow’s accusations that the filmmaker sexually abused her when she was seven “very improbable.”

Maher delivered his full-throated defense during an interview with Katie Couric on his Club Random podcast. The conversation had turned to that specter of “cancel culture,” and Couric mentioned an article about the challenges of separating the art from the artist with regard to Allen and his new movie, Coup de Chance (a French film...

Iconic director Woody Allen may retire from his career, noting that the film industry is not appealing to him anymore.

“The business has changed, and not in an appealing way,” Allen told AirMail. All the romance of filmmaking is gone.”

Allen struggled to find a North American distributor for his most recent film, Coup de Chance. The French thriller/romance film, starring French actors Lou de Laâge and Melvil Poupaud, premiered at the Venice International Film Festival in September 2023.

On the red carpet, Allen was booed by people in attendance, including the press and fans. The film was not released in U.S. theaters after the HBO docuseries Allen v. Farrow aired. The docuseries covers the numerous sexual abuse allegations against Allen, including the incident between Allen, ex-partner Mia Farrow and Farrow’s adoptive daughter Soon Yi Previn.

Allen was also accused of sexual abuse by his stepdaughter, Dylan Farrow.

As the world waits for the unsealing of hundreds of court filings related to notorious sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, a new lawsuit has surfaced in Los Angeles accusing Epstein associate Jean-Luc Brunel of holding a woman hostage at a Canadian estate for sex abuse by multiple men.

The new accuser, suing under the pseudonym Jessica Kramer, alleges she was an 18-year-old model working in New York when Brunel — who was found hanged in a Paris prison cell two years ago in a reported suicide eerily similar to Epstein’s — “solicited” her employment.

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Possible blueprint?: As is so often the case days, it all started with a tweet. Writer-director Carina Adly MacKenzie took to X to throw a proverbial grenade into the long-running debate around streaming residuals – the U.S. unions’ long-held desire for writers and actors to be compensated fairly when shows on the likes of Netflix, Prime Video and Disney+ perform above expectations. “Fun fact: in France, Netflix already reports their viewership to writers monthly and pays writers based on that viewership, because it’s the law there,” wrote Carina. “They literally already have that system in place.” Curiosities on both sides of the Atlantic...

Woody Allen is attending the Venice International Film Festival for the premiere of his latest film, “Coup de Chance”.

On Monday, the director of such acclaimed comedies as “Annie Hall” and “Midnight in Paris” walked the red carpet ahead of the movie’s screening, joined by wife Soon-Yi Previn and the couple’s daughters, Bechet, 24, and Manzie, 23.

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As People reported, during the “Coup de Chance” press conference, the 87-year-old director discussed his contentment with his family.

“I was lucky my whole life really,” Allen said.

Read More: Woody Allen Talks Cancel Culture, Reveals He Hasn’t Seen Dylan Or Ronan Farrow Since Sexual Assault Allegations

“I had two loving parents, I have good friends. I have a wonderful wife and marriage, two children,” he said.

Allen’s appearance at the festival was not without controversy.

“Judge the art, not the artist.” That is the mantra we hear each and every time someone in the entertainment world is accused of heinous behavior, and it’s one that was repeated by artistic director Alberto Barbera prior to this year’s Venice Film Festival.

In an interview with The Guardian, Barbera discussed his decision to include films by Roman Polanski, Woody Allen, and Luc Besson in the 2023 festival program — Polanski’s The Palace, a class comedy about a dinner party at a luxury Swiss hotel on the eve...

As Woody Allen took the press conference stage for his recent film Coup de Chance, the disgraced filmmaker was given a lengthy standing ovation by the (largely European) media assembled in the room — arguably the most rapturous reception any filmmaker received. It was difficult to watch.

Strong applause for Woody Allen as he enters the press conference for his #venezia80 title ‘Coup De Chance’ pic.twitter.com/WHob4C24J4

— Deadline Hollywood (@Deadline) September 4, 2023

During the press conference, Allen, who is 87 years old, was joined onstage by his Italian cinematographer,...

One could make -- and no doubt some resourceful Marvel Cinematic Universe fans have made -- a video about Loki (Tom Hiddleston) hooking up with different characters in the MCU using footage from Hiddleston's non-Marvel projects. The actor had a tragic affair with Rachel Weisz (Melina Vostokoff in "Black Widow") in "The Deep Blue Sea," played one-half of a pair of vampiric lovers along with Tilda Swinton (the McU's Ancient One) in "Only Lovers Left Alive," and starred as Hank Williams in "I Saw the Light," with the Scarlet Witch herself, Elizabeth Olsen, playing the late country music legend's wife. Hiddleston even had a fling with Elizabeth Debicki (Ayesha in the "Guardians of the Galaxy" films) in "The Night Manager," in addition to a non-zero amount of sexual tension with "Captain Marvel" actor Brie Larson in "Kong: Skull Island."

Tragically, Hiddleston did not romance Owen Wilson during the film they...

Jeffrey Epstein’s calendar is revealing secrets years after the billionaire’s death in a New York prison. The now head of the Central Intelligence Agency, a college president, a former Obama White House counsel, and scholar Noam Chomsky are all listed in the financier’s private date book, according to a new report from the Wall Street Journal.

The private calendar is different from other Epstein documents, such as his flight logs or his “black book,” both of which have been made public. None of the names reported by...

Austin, Texas — Patton Oswalt, Phoebe Robinson, Eric Andre, Chelsea Handler and others were in fine form on Friday night as Variety helped kick off the 2023 SXSW festival and conference with its Power of Comedy event.

The kudos pay tribute to innovators in the business of being funny. Presenters and honorees who gathered at the Creek and the Cave nightclub in downtown Austin made mention of comedians facing a fraught moment as social norms and cultural attitudes are changing.

Mike Lawrence, who tag-teamed with Nick Thune as host for the night, noted that he had to show more identification when registering to get his SXSW conference badge than he would have to buy a gun.

“In Texas it’s harder to get a festival badge than to get a gun,” Lawrence said. “Go to a gun store and tell them ‘I hate Jews,’ you get a gun. Go to registration and say ‘I’m an artist.

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Chelsea Handler encouraged women of every age to support and celebrate the successes of fellow women as their own while opening The Hollywood Reporter’s annual Women in Entertainment gala, presented by Lifetime, on Wednesday.

After beginning with a warm welcome to event’s attendees at the Fairmont Century Plaza in Los Angeles, the comedian and TV host launched began her speech — equal parts sentimental and acerbic — with a joke about former senate candidate Mehmet Oz, who she noted “has a ton of free time now.”

Later in her speech, Handler would also mention the 2022 midterm election turnout, which saw several pieces of legislation pass in response to the overturning of Roe v. Wade.

“Recently, women dominated the polls in the midterm elections, showing up with one of the biggest voter turnouts to date — fighting for control of our own bodies,” Handler said.

Rosie O’Donnell appeared on Monday’s edition of “The Howard Stern Show”, and among the many celebrities she dished on was Woody Allen.

During the conversation, O’Donnell recalled receiving an offer to star in Allen’s 1999 movie “Sweet and Lowdown” — something she found highly surprising considering she had eviscerated him in her 1995 HBO standup special.

“Can you believe the nerve of this guy, showing up in public with his lover-slash-daughter?” O’Donnell said in her special, referencing Allen’s relationship with Soon-Yi Previn. “Incest, buddy, is a word. Look it up. Pedophile, what a concept. Have you heard of it?”

Read More: Rosie O’Donnell Shades Elisabeth Hasselbeck’s ‘Strange’ Return To ‘The View’

She added, “I forgot that rule: You can adopt a baby and when she turns 16, f**k her! That’s the Woody Allen clause in all the adoption contracts… Every day my agent has been...

Rosie O’Donnell didn’t think twice about turning down an offer to star in a Woody Allen film.

The “A League of Their Own” actress recently recalled during “The Howard Stern Show” that following a 1995 HBO comedy special where she slammed the child abuse charges against Allen, the director called her to star in his feature “Sweet and Lowdown.”

“I had done an HBO special where I said everything about him,” O’Donnell said, via Entertainment Weekly. “And then I got on my show. So it’s the first year of my show and I get a call and they said, ‘He wants you to be in [‘Sweet and Lowdown’]. I said, ‘Please send him my HBO special.’ And the woman said, ‘Oh he’s already seen it.’ And I said, ‘Send it anyway with two words: Fuck no.’ And I sent it to him.”

Sean Penn and Uma Thurman led the 1999 feature.

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Woody Allen says he’s no longer much interested in making movies in the streaming era.

“I will probably make one more movie, but a lot of the thrill is gone because it doesn’t have the whole cinema effect. When I started, you would do a film and it would go to movie houses all over the country and people would come,” the filmmaker told Alec Baldwin during an appearance on Instagram Live on Tuesday to tout his latest collection of humor stories, Zero Gravity.

“Now you do a movie and you get a couple of weeks in a movie house, maybe six weeks or four weeks and then it goes right to streaming or to pay per view. People love sitting at home and watching on their big screens and watching it on their television sets and they have good sound and a clear picture.

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“It’s patience, it’s empathy, it’s trying to really listen to someone and their concerns, both in an interview and also in conversations about whether they’re going to give an interview, and also it’s bringing yourself,” says Ronan Farrow, one of the most consequential investigative journalists of our time, when asked during a recent recording of The Hollywood Reporter’s Awards Chatter podcast how he makes subjects comfortable enough to open up to him about their deepest and darkest secrets. The 34-year-old son of Mia Farrow and Woody Allen continues, “I have a double-edged sword: It’s a painful thing that people know a lot more about me than I know about them, generally, in any interaction, and it’s not all great stuff — but I can’t change that. All I can do is be open and vulnerable about that.

Mira Sorvino revealed that her career feels “tainted” since winning an Oscar and Golden Globe for Woody Allen’s 1995 film “Mighty Aphrodite.”

Sorvino explained during Marc Maron’s “Wtf” podcast that she “should have denounced” the director over the sexual abuse allegations that Allen molested his adopted daughter, Dylan Farrow.

“I didn’t look deep enough to actually educate myself to really make an educated opinion at the time. It’s not an excuse,” Sorvino said, explaining that she grew up “idolizing” Allen as an artist.

“It’s so hard to talk about it now because I now have a very different opinion of Woody than I did now. I blame myself for not investigating further into what happened with Dylan,” Sorvino said. “There was the whole custody battle and it was in the press. It was pre-‘Mighty Aphrodite.’ But the way that the press had kind of skewed...

“Allen v. Farrow” composer Michael Abels just earned his first two Emmy nominations for his theme and score to the HBO docuseries — all the more notable because he had never worked on a non-fiction project until now.

“I asked [directors Kirby Dick and Amy Ziering] if there was a difference in scoring documentary versus film because I hadn’t done it before. I didn’t want to do in thinking I knew the answer,” Abels tells Gold Derby at our Meet the Btl Experts: Composers panel (watch above). “They were really supportive of me doing what it is that I do. It felt like I had the freedom to really help tell the story. At the same time, it is a documentary and you need to be conscious of allowing people to experience it as people telling their factual accounts of what happened.”

The four-part series covers the 1992 sexual assault allegations...

The controversial HBO documentary series Allen v. Farrow, which supports Dylan Farrow’s accusation of being sexually abused by her adoptive favor, Woody Allen, earned the most Emmy nominations of any nonfiction program.

The four-part series directed and executive-produced by Amy Ziering and Kirby Dick and produced by Amy Herdy claimed seven nominations in all, including Outstanding Documentary or Nonfiction Series and Outstanding Directing for a Documentary/Nonfiction Program.

“It’s an incredible honor, no question about it,” Dick told Deadline. “This is something that was just completely a collective effort.”

“It’s so incredible to get this recognition from your peers, not so much for us but for our team,” Ziering commented. “It’s so hard to do this work. I know we’re not, like, curing cancer, but it’s hard to do this rigorous investigative work, craft a story so people can follow it, make sure all your fact-checking is correct.

Legendary movie star, Last Call‘s Bruce Dern, joins Josh and Joe to discuss a few of his favorite movies and moments.

Show Notes: Movies Referenced In This Episode

The Cowboys (1972)

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Woody Allen has spoken out about Dylan Farrow’s allegations against him of sexual assault when she was seven years old, once again restating his innocence of the accusations. Allen has maintained that innocence for nearly 30 years since the controversy erupted in 1992. During a rare sit-down interview that was recorded back in July of 2020, Allen opened up about the allegations on “CBS Sunday Morning.” The interview, which is followed by Gayle King’s 2018 conversation with Dylan Farrow, is currently available to stream on Paramount+.

“There was no logic to it, on the face of it. Why would a guy who’s 57 years old and never was accused of anything in my life, I’m suddenly gonna drive up in the middle of a contentious custody fight at Mia’s country home? On the surface, I didn’t think it required any investigation,” said Allen, articulating the point he similarly made...

Woody Allen again proclaimed his innocence today in a rare interview on CBS Sunday Morning, addressing allegations of sexual abuse dating back years ago by his daughter, Dylan Farrow.

“I believe she thinks it,” Allen, 85, said, referring to his daughter’s abuse claims. “She was a good kid. I do not believe that she’s making it up. I don’t believe she’s lying. I believe she believes that.”

CBS says the talk was Allen’s first in-depth, on-camera American interview in nearly 30 years. He was interviewed in July 2020, finally airing today on the Paramount+ streaming service. Although Allen said nothing new, the interview addresses points revived by the recent HBO docuseries Allen vs. Farrow.

The prolific film director has never been charged with any crimes and has always denied allegations that he molested his young daughter.

“It’s so preposterous, and yet the smear has remained,” Allen said Sunday.

In a new interview with CBS News and released on Paramount+ on Sunday, Woody Allen repeated his denial of adopted daughter Dylan Farrow’s “preposterous” accusations that he molested her in 1992 in the midst of a bitter custody battle with his ex Mia Farrow.

“It’s so preposterous and yet the smear has remained,” Allen told CBS’ Lee Cowan in an interview taped last July after the publication of Allen’s memoir, “Apropos of Nothing.” “And they still prefer to cling to, if not the notion that I molested Dylan than the possibility that I molested her. Nothing that I ever did with Dylan in my life could be misconstrued as that.”

Allen also said that he has not spoken to Dylan since the accusations first surfaced when she was just 7 years old — and that he does not dispute that Dylan’s belief that she was abused. “I do not...

In Woody Allen’s first interview on American television in nearly 30 years, conducted in July and released Sunday on streamer Paramount Plus, the filmmaker again denies that he ever sexually abused his daughter Dylan Farrow.

The interview, conducted by CBS News correspondent Lee Cowan for “CBS Sunday Morning,” skims the surface of the decades-old allegations against Allen. The interview took place last summer, but was held and released on the heels of the March 14 conclusion of the four-part HBO docuseries “Allen v. Farrow,” which once again put Farrow’s accusations into the spotlight. Allen did not take part in that series.

The 35-minute program, packaged with Gayle King’s 2018 interview with Dylan Farrow from “CBS This Morning,” also includes a new segment from “Sunday Morning” correspondent Erin Moriarty about how art should be evaluated when artists have been accused of reprehensible behavior. The centerpiece interview with Allen is mostly a...

Filmmaker Woody Allen, whose career has been marred by sexual abuse allegations made in 1992 by his daughter, Dylan Farrow, has granted a rare interview that will be streamed on Paramount Plus as part of a broader “CBS Sunday Morning” package.

CBS News says the interview, recorded in July of last year, represents Allen’s first in-depth television interview in nearly three decades. Lee Cowan, a national correspondent and substitute anchor for “Sunday Morning,” who conducted the interview, will anchor the special, titled “The Woody Allen Interview,” which will be available on Paramount Plus starting March 28. The program will also include an interview with Dylan Farrow conducted by Gayle King in 2018 and a new segment from Erin Moriarty that examines what happens when artists are accused of morally questionable acts.

“Lee Cowan sat down with Woody Allen in July 2020 following the release of his memoir for what would be Allen’s...

What happened between Woody Allen and Dylan Farrow one afternoon in August 1992 has been in dispute for three decades.

On Sunday, the four-part HBO docuseries “Allen v. Farrow” will once again delve into the case — which pits the Oscar-winning filmmaker against his daughter, Dylan Farrow. Allen has accused Mia Farrow, his ex and Dylan’s mother, of “relentlessly coaching” Dylan Farrow as a child to accuse him of molestation. The reason, he has said, was to get revenge for his relationship with Soon-Yi Previn, Mia Farrow’s daughter, whom he married in 1997.

Allen has never been charged with a crime, and authorities seemed torn on whether he should be when the accusations against him first came to light. Here is a timeline of the accusations, and the personal and professional fallout for everyone involved.

February 1992: Mia Farrow discovered nude photos of Soon-Yi Previn in Allen’s home. He soon...

The disintegration of the partnership between Woody Allen and Mia Farrow is the focus of the new four-part docuseries Allen v. Farrow, which aired its first episode on Sunday, February 21st. The final episode aired Sunday, March 14th, on HBO.

The docuseries goes caustically in-depth about the sexual abuse allegations levied against Allen by their adopted daughter Dylan Farrow — and, to a lesser extent, Allen’s affair with another of Mia’s adopted daughters, Soon-Yi Previn — as well as the aftermath of the bitter and public custody battle on the Farrow family.

With the recent airing of the four-part documentary series “Allen v. Farrow” on HBO, Woody Allen’s name has been in the news a lot over the last few weeks. And with so much renewed interest in long-standing allegations against Allen, there’s now a new round of people attempting to distance themselves from the director.

As reported by the New York Post, Allen and his wife, Soon-Yi Previn, recently contributed $1,000 to the campaign of Julie Menin, who is running for a city council seat on the Upper East Side in New York. However, Menin and her camp refused the donation and immediately returned it to the couple. “Julie doesn’t know Mr. Allen and the campaign did not solicit this contribution. It was returned the same day it came in because of past allegations against Mr. Allen,” said Menin rep Max Kramer.

Menin is the former commissioner for the...