Woody Allen, celebrated Hollywood director and accused child abuser, spoke with the Argentinian news show Periodismo Para Todos about how he perceives his role within the #MeToo movement—and that perception has nothing to do with being another a rich, powerful man held unaccountable for his alleged actions. Rather…
TMZ reported on Wednesday that Los Angeles’ Deputy District Attorney has decided not to prosecute Scott Baio over allegations that the actor sexually assaulted his Charles in Charge co-star Nicole Eggert in the ’80s.
E! News has added not one but two descriptors to the “mystery man” seen with Canadian pop star Avril Lavigne over the past few months. First, his name is Phillip Sarofim. Second, he is the son of a “Texas billionaire” named Fayez Sarofim.
That’s so weird, cause I’m never shocked when a bunch of powerful artistic types rally around a man accused of sexual misconduct!
Earlier this week, actress Cate Blanchett—who starred in Woody Allen’s 2013 film Blue Jasmine and hasn’t had much of anything to say publicly in the intervening years about child abuse allegations leveled against the director by his daughter, Dylan Farrow—spoke about Allen and #MeToo during an appearance on CNN’s…
In December, MSNBC’s Mika Brzezinski identified what she felt was a problem with the #MeToo movement: “Any woman can say anything, and that’s it,” she said. The accused’s career “is over.” Oh, is that so?
Michael Caine won an Academy Award for his supporting role in the 1986 Woody Allen film Hannah and Her Sisters, but he won’t work with the director again, joining the growing group of actors who are shunning Allen in light of Dylan Farrow’s sexual abuse allegations against him.
The #MeToo movement and the consistent bravery of Dylan Farrow has forced a lot of actors to publicly explain why they worked with Woody Allen and answer the question of whether or not they will again. It’s taken a long time, and will take even longer if we keep going one by one, so here’s an interview with both Jeff…
In honor of Judy Blume’s 80th birthday, NPR broadcast an interview with the author, in which she weighed in on the #MeToo movement and whether or not she was able to separate art from the artist.
Bret Stephens, a foreign and domestic policy columnist for the New York Times, emerged from a cave on Friday to tell us What Bret Stephens Thinks about Dylan Farrow. His verdict: Farrow is an opportunist taking advantage of the #MeToo moment for the purpose of “smearing” Woody Allen. He calls it: “The Smearing of…
Things take their natural course; Woody Allen will go to Europe; Woody Allen will keep pumping out overrated movies; the sun will rise tomorrow. Which is to say that France, which has long harbored Hollywood’s most notorious alleged pedophile director, will take in Hollywood’s other most notorious alleged pedophile…
Quite a few actors and actresses are coming forward in light of #MeToo to proclaim they won’t work with Woody Allen again, with some like Timothée Chalamet and Rebecca Hall even donating their salaries to charity. But Wonder Wheel’s Kate Winslet has mostly stood by the director.
On Sunday, a number of news outlets reported that Hollywood might finally be done with Woody Allen, a mere 26 years after adopted daughter Dylan Farrow accused him of assaulting and abusing her when she was only seven years old. To some, it was a relief to hear that both actors and distributors (chiefly, Amazon) were…
It seems the backlash against Woody Allen has spread at least as far as Spain.
Earlier this week, Timothée Chalamet served up his offertory to the Woody Allen penance ceremony, joining several of his castmates from Allen’s newly-wrapped A Rainy Day in New York in donating his salary to Time’s Up, RAINN, and the LGBT Center in New York. Except in his Instagram announcement, he added this little…
Colin Firth, welcome to the resistance.
On Thursday morning, Dylan Farrow sat down with CBS News’s Gayle King for a candid and heartbreaking interview, reiterating her decades-old story that her adoptive father, Woody Allen, molested her when she was seven years old.
Justin Timberlake would like to assure you that he “absolutely” took the time to resolve his issues with Janet Jackson after the Super Bowl strip fiasco of 2004.
On Tuesday, CBS announced that an interview with Dylan Farrow by CBS This Morning co-host Gayle King will air on Thursday. Per CBS, the interview will cover “[Farrow’s] allegations that she was sexually abused by her father, Woody Allen, and…Hollywood’s Time’s Up movement.”
