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    Dylan Farrow is Woody Allen and Mia Farrow's adopted daughter.





    An Open Letter From Dylan Farrow

    By*DYLAN*FARROW

    February 1, 2014

    What’s your favorite Woody Allen movie? Before you answer, you should know: when I was seven years old, Woody Allen took me by the hand and led me into a dim, closet-like attic on the second floor of our house. He told me to lay on my stomach and play with my brother’s electric train set. Then he sexually assaulted me. He talked to me while he did it, whispering that I was a good girl, that this was our secret, promising that we’d go to Paris and I’d be a star in his movies. I remember staring at that toy train, focusing on it as it traveled in its circle around the attic. To this day, I find it difficult to look at toy trains.

    For as long as I could remember, my father had been doing things to me that I didn’t like. I didn’t like how often he would take me away from my mom, siblings and friends to be alone with him. I didn’t like it when he would stick his thumb in my mouth. I didn’t like it when I had to get in bed with him under the sheets when he was in his underwear. I didn’t like it when he would place his head in my naked lap and breathe in and breathe out. I would hide under beds or lock myself in the bathroom to avoid these encounters, but he always found me. These things happened so often, so routinely, so skillfully hidden from a mother that would have protected me had she known, that I thought it was normal. I thought this was how fathers doted on their daughters. But what he did to me in the attic felt different. I couldn’t keep the secret anymore.
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  • #2
    I had to look up a list of his films and I think I've seen only one of them, What's New Pussycat! That must be nearly 50 years ago and it impressed my wife and I so much, we can't remember a thing about it! We never go to the cinema (I think the last time may be about 25-30 years ago) and we rarely watch broadcast films on the goggle box, although we have a fairish collection of DVDs that don't have breaks in the middle. Last night, we enjoyed a 1966 film of the late D'Oyly Carte's version of G&S's The Mikado; you never see masterpieces like that on the idiot's lantern!

    As for the letter, there is little new in it. It has long been known the guy was kinky.
    Last edited by Brian Ellis; 3 February 2014, 05:50.
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    • #3
      I've honestly never liked anything Woody Allen has done, but then I've also avoided watching them if I knew he was involved. The sad thing is, he'll likely never suffer repercussions of any real kind from his actions (because I am not giving him the benefit of the doubt). It's far too easy to ignore victims of abuse.
      “And, remember: there's no 'I' in 'irony'” ~ Merlin Mann

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      • #4
        Take the money and run.
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        • #5
          Everything You Always Wanted To Know About Sex was mildly amusing, and Sleeper had a few chuckles. But his realistic comedies are too unfunny and his farces are all too over-the-top even for my Pythonesque tastes.

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