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Polarizing Filmmaker
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| It is so interesting that I have come to the defense of Woody Allen, the filmmaker, writer, screenwriter, Woody Allen, for now, I guess, decades. | |
| He was not found guilty of the one charge of one time molesting Mia Farrow's daughter when they were together, he and Mia Farrow. | |
| He's accused of one-time molesting. | |
| Did you ever hear of somebody who molested only once in his life? | |
| I mean, it may exist, but I've never heard of it. | |
| People who molest, molest. | |
| They don't do it once. | |
| And he was exonerated in a court. | |
| He was tried on the issue, and he was exonerated. | |
| And yet, Hollywood boycotted him. | |
| Actors and actresses would not act in his films. | |
| They could not even make a film in the United States. | |
| He made most of his films abroad as a result. | |
| The meanness that characterizes Hollywood is an important thing for you to know. | |
| Most producers, most of the big producers, big actors are bad people. | |
| They're not just fools. | |
| They're mean. | |
| They're bad. | |
| That's it. | |
| I said most. | |
| So most could be 51%. | |
| Could be 80%. | |
| I don't know. | |
| God knows. | |
| Woody Allen, reputation bruised, finds muted reception to 50th film, New York Times. | |
| Coup de chance, a milestone, is being released in the United States after opening in Europe months ago. | |
| This weekend, 13 movie theaters around the country will be showing Coup de Chance, a brisk French-language thriller about a bored wife in Paris who cheats on her wealthy, aloof husband. | |
| With an old high school schoolmate triggering fatal consequences. | |
| A typical viewer could watch the movie without knowing it is the 50th film directed by Woody Allen. | |
| The foreign language, one in which Alan is not fluent. | |
| His original script was translated for filming. | |
| The absence of the kinds of American stars that typically crowd Alan's cast. | |
| The low-key reception with which this milestone has been greeted all suggest the awkwardness surrounding this new release by a filmmaker. | |
| As distinctive as he is polarizing. | |
| He's polarizing. | |
| Polarizing. | |
| The notion... | |
| It's so amazing the inversion of good values. | |
| The notion of innocent until proven guilty doesn't exist on the left. | |
| It doesn't exist. | |
| It's such a mean world, the left world. | |
| And they walk around thinking they're wonderful. | |
| That's why I have such little regard for the conscience. | |
| It's so malleable. | |
| Coup de chance was financed in Europe. | |
| His sister declined to disclose its backers. | |
| Isn't that amazing? | |
| You're not going to mention who backed a Woody Allen film. | |
| Woody Allen, by the way, is a diehard liberal. | |
| So I don't defend him because I agree with him. | |
| I defend him because there's a principle at stake. | |
| Because people called conservatives like me, we defend principles. | |
| And if you defend good principles, you're not on the left. | |
| He's 88 years old? | |
| Wow. | |
| Wow. | |
| 88 years old. | |
| Alan, 88, has a more than half-century career as a writer, and so on. | |
| But for many filmgoers, affection for his movies has been overshadowed by allegations against him personally. | |
| They shouldn't say allegations. | |
| An allegation. | |
| In 1992, his daughter, Dylan Farrow, then seven, said Alan had sexually assaulted her months after he had begun a relationship with Soon E. Previn. | |
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Passover Service Tradition
00:01:44
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| Oh, yes, that's the other reason they hate him. | |
| That's right. | |
| He had a relationship, and he ended up marrying, and they're married. | |
| What are they married now? | |
| 25 years? | |
| Yeah, 26 years. | |
| Soon-Yi Previn, the teenage daughter of Mia Farrow, his former partner, and Dylan's mother. | |
| She is now his wife of 26 years. | |
| Following an inquiry by child abuse investigators at Yale New Haven Hospital, Allen was never prosecuted. | |
| He denies having assaulted Dylan Farrow. | |
| He and his defenders have suggested Mia Farrow coach their daughter. | |
| That is what I believe. | |
| A lot more to report to you. | |
| Passover is coming up. | |
| Many Christians increasingly over the years have decided to have a Seder with Jews or at their church. | |
| And there is a service, a service of hundreds of years, a thousand years. | |
| The Haggadah is the service, and I have done with the Haggadah. | |
| For Passover, what I did with the Bible and the Rational Bible, the Rational Passover Haggadah. | |
| Even if you never have a service, it's worth reading, because I raise so many important issues in it. | |
| It's 50% off at PragerStore.com. | |
| PragerStore.com, the Rational Passover Haggadah. | |