Today is the day when the word “empowering” officially lost any remaining meaning, crawled into a corner and died. In an interview with Hamptons Magazine (which we saw via Vanity Fair), Blake Lively said that working with Woody Allen was “very empowering.”

While at the Cannes Film Festival on Sunday, Susan Sarandon deferred talking about Woody Allen, but her reason wasn’t a mealy-mouthed excuse.

In a guest column for The Hollywood Reporter, Ronan Farrow writes about the thick wall of protection surrounding his father Woody Allen, whose alleged history of sexual abuse has been systematically glossed over.