Ronan and Mia Farrow think President Trump’s painted himself into a diplomatic corner when it comes to dealing with Saudi Arabia over the apparent murder of a journalist. We spoke to Ronan and his mom on Sunday afternoon about the…
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Tuesday, October 16, 2018
Saturday, April 28, 2018
Ronan Farrow Won"t Comment on Possible Weinstein Prosecution
Ronan Farrow had an interesting comment on a possible Harvey Weinstein prosecution … something prosecutors typically say when hounded by the media. We got the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Friday at LAX and asked if the Bill Cosby conviction…
Wednesday, January 24, 2018
Justin Timberlake: Roasted on Twitter by Dylan Farrow!
It wasn’t so long ago that Justin Timberlake’s #TimesUp tweet got him slammed for hypocrisy.
Well, he tweeted what looked like an innocent question on Tuesday, and Dylan Farrow seized the opportunity to roast him.
Read the tweets for yourself and decide whether or not it was well-deserved.
On Tuesday, Justin Timberlake tweeted out a question:
“Random question: Can someone please explain the saying, ‘You just want your cake and to eat it too.’ What else am I about to do with a cake??”
Now, obviously, he’s trying to get to how that saying came about.
We would assume that it comes from many cakes being works of art. Colorful, full of writing, and perhaps even containing sculpted shapes made from frosting.
Cakes really are beautiful — and we just mean regular cakes. Then there are the cakes that you’ve seen on those cake-based reality shows over the years.
So it’s easily conceivable that someone would have had to explain to a young, distressed child that they cannot have their cake — this piece of ephemeral artwork — and also eat it.
Dylan Farrow decided to spell out her answer using an … example.
She tweeted her reply:
“The saying means, for example, you can’t support #TIMESUP and praise sexual predators at the same time.”
And, specifically:
“You can’t retain your credibility as an activist (i.e. – retain the cake) and, at the same time, praise a sexual predator (i.e. – eating the cake).”
That might be a little harsh, but she’s absolutely right. Praising and uplifting a known sex monster goes against everything that #TimesUp is supposed to represent.
In case you’re wondering what issue Dylan Farrow has with Justin Timberlake … let us refresh your memory.
JT is one of the leading stars in Woody Allen’s next film, Wonder Wheel, in which he’ll play a lifeguard being pursued by a mother and her estranged husband’s daughter.
Woody Allen is infamous for his films about older men pursuing younger women, but he’s also infamous for allegedly having molested his daughter (Dylan Farrow) and for definitely having married a woman, Soon-Yi, whom many view as his daughter.
So he got roasted for his #TimesUp post before the Golden Globes.
It sure struck a lot of folks as being majorly hypocritical.
Dylan Farrow, of course, is very close to this story.
The rest of us look on in disappointment as stars who should know better — Justin Timberlake, Selena Gomez, Blake Lively — have work with Woody Allen of their own volition.
But for Dylan Farrow, we’re talking about a man whom she accuses of transforming her life for the worst. You don’t get a second chance at childhood, folks. And the scars of childhood trauma stay with you for the rest of your life.
Just recently, Dylan Farrow spoke about how Woody Allen molested her — and it was the first time that she spoke about the terrible trauma on camera.
Justin Timberlake is talented and beautiful and charming, but that doesn’t excuse him for being tone-deaf on Twitter.
Watching her interview was hard. Despite herself, she cried during it.
It is difficult for abuse survivors to talk about the horrors that they experienced without actively reliving them.
(Either that or dissociating; either of which can be awkward in an interview)
None of us can make her life better or redo her childhood.
But surely the least that we can all do is refrain from lending aid and comfort to people accused of monstrous deeds.
Otherwise, their time will never actually be up.
Thursday, January 18, 2018
Dylan Farrow Describes Woody Allen"s Alleged Molestation
Dylan Farrow broke down in tears as, for the first time on camera, she described Woody Allen’s alleged molestation of her when she was 7. Dylan sat down with CBS’s Gayle King and claimed her adoptive father, Allen, took her to the attic of…
Wednesday, January 17, 2018
Dylan Farrow: I Want to Take Down Woody Allen!
Years ago, Dylan Farrow spoke out against Woody Allen, accusing him of sexual abuse. He continues to churn out his creepy movies about old men and young women.
We don"t know if the #MeToo momentum is enough to spell Time"s Up for Woody Allen, but Dylan Farrow is speaking out again, on CBS This Morning.
In the teaser video for the interview below, Dylan Farrow responds to questions of why she wants to bring down Woody Allen … and why you should believe her.
Nearly four years ago, in a haunting essay, Dylan Farrow accused Woody Allen of molesting her as a child.
I still remember reading it. The grim details of her experience as a 7-year-old isn"t something that you easily forget. But you might want to.
We"re sure that she wishes that she could forget.
Woody Allen was her adoptive father. He has always denied the allegations, calling them "disgraceful" and "untrue," to no one"s surprise.
Child abuse on its own sort of maxes out any awfulness scale, but if it were possible for it to get worse, it would be child abuse committed by a parent.
From the moment that the Harvey Weinstein sexual harassment story broke at the beginning of October 2017, many women realized that there had been just enough of a cultural shift for them to name the sex monsters who walked among them.
All of these women have faced backlash in one form or another, but now the world knows the names of dozens of men with whom no one should ever have to be alone on an elevator.
But all along, people listening to these stories have wondered — when will Woody Allen"s time finally be up?
He hasn"t been named by one of 2017 or 2018"s #MeToo stories. Dylan Farrow called him out in 2014. it"s not a secret.
And yet not only has he faced zero legal consequences, but he"s still free. He has a career. He wins awards. Actresses who should know better, like Selena Gomez, still work with Woody Allen.
Woody Allen gets trashed by people like Ellen Pompeo, but he also gets defended by celebs like Alec Baldwin.
But Dylan Farrow isn"t remaining silent, and she went on CBS This Morning to speak about Woody Allen.
Gayle King mentions that people have suggested that Dylan is simply out to get or bring down Woody Allen.
Dylan replies:
"Why shouldn"t I want to bring him down? Why shouldn"t I be angry? Why shouldn"t I be hurt?"
That"s such a good reply. Our culture has a toxic craving for people who forgive the people who ruined their lives. It"s not healthy.
Forgive somebody who took your car, not your childhood.
"Why shouldn"t I feel some sort of outrage that, after all of these years of being ignored and disbelieved and tossed aside. …"
Gayle King then asks why people should believe her, since so much time has passed.
"I suppose [whether people believe me is] on them."
She"s right. Dylan has spoken
"But all I can do is speak my truth and hope."
(The my/your truth line is a pet peeve of mine, but many people feel like it"s less confrontational than saying the truth)
"Hope that somebody will believe me instead of just hearing me."
It"s difficult to think of a conceivable motive to make Dylan Farrow lie about this.
Speaking out has earned her her hate from diehard Woody Allen fans and stigma from people who believe that her childhood trauma makes her "damaged goods."
False accusations of sexual assault do happen, to be clear. I believe that the statistic is somewhere around 0.04% of the time?
We are very interested in what Dylan Farrow has to say about how her father continues to be accepted and defended in Hollywood, despite her allegations.
Here is the teaser video of her interview:
Thursday, December 14, 2017
Ronan Farrow Says America Needed a Wake-Up Call on Sexual Misconduct
Ronan Farrow’s whistleblowing article on Harvey Weinstein opened the floodgates of sexual harassment allegations in and out of Hollywood — and he says it’s exactly what America needed. We got Ronan catching a flight out of LAX Thursday and asked…
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