Word: affair
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...years ago, Allen, who says he had previously paid little attention to Soon-Yi, began taking her to Knicks games at the Garden. Allen said in an interview with TIME that their sexual relationship blossomed late last year. It was not until January that Farrow learned of the affair. Yet the director and his star continued working on their new film Husbands and Wives, due to be released on Sept...
...Allen's next film -- not the behavior of a woman who believed her ex-lover and director to have preyed on her daughter. Farrow was a daft and brutal mother, the Allen camp said: she beat Soon-Yi and tore up her clothes in anger at the girl's affair. They whispered, as Soon-Yi finally said publicly, that the other children had fallen into "theft, alcohol, arrests, severe truancy and other symptoms...
...children while treating the older adopted kids as servants. I think Mia always had a grand plan to meet Woody, have a relationship with him, be in his films and eventually have his child. Once she did, things began to deteriorate. But even after she knew about Woody's affair, she still wanted to continue her relationship. If he gave up Soon-Yi, Mia would make the children accessible and drop the charges. She'd even want him back...
Attending to this misery, thoughtful people feel sick. Then they pose questions -- not whethers but whys: why Allen stayed with Farrow through her adoption obsession; why Farrow remained allied with Allen after discovering the affair; why both are forcing or allowing their families, including their children, to shill for them in the media. And of course, why Allen could not have shown the slightest moral etiquette, resisted temptation and kept his hands off Soon...
...assuming she had any love left over. But if Farrow's love turned to total obsession -- the woman-scorned syndrome, which could provoke fantasies of child abuse -- Allen's had long since become total detachment. That is why he admits not the slightest ethical error or ambiguity in his affair with Soon-Yi. It is also what blinds him to one crucial fact: he may not have considered himself Soon-Yi's father; but he must have known that Farrow considered herself Soon-Yi's mother...