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...think of Allen as Woody, the movie gnome taking pleasure in the pinwheeling of his mind and in the lust for romantic love. And think of Farrow as Mamma Mia, years ago, just after she had adopted Soon-Yi. To her friend (and onetime stepdaughter) Nancy Sinatra, Mia wrote this: "My children are a continuous joy. The latest is Soon-Yi (aged 6, 7 or 8 -- we're saying 7). She's from Korea -- was found abandoned in the streets of Seoul -- with rickets, malnutrition -- even her finger nails had fallen off, she had lice and sores everywhere...
...consider Woody Allen to be a father figure...
They were a storied couple. Then declarations of love and accusations of abuse exploded them into tabloid hell. The saga of Woody Allen and Mia Farrow raises questions about the postmodern family -- and provokes an epochal sadness...
...exclusive interview, Allen defends his actions and his honor: "The heart wants what it wants...
...Woody Allen is not Soon-Yi's biological father; he is not married to her adoptive mother Mia Farrow; and he did not live in their home. Moreover, Soon- Yi is a consenting adult. But if the Woody-Soon-Yi affair is not legally out of bounds, it is hardly innocent. At the very least, a man who sleeps with his ex-lover's daughter appears predatory and manipulative. But the relationship shades into indecency with the claim by Soon-Yi's siblings that Allen has been a father figure to the entire Farrow brood ever since Soon...