Word: allene
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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When the time comes for British government leaders to recommend the next honors list to Queen Elizabeth II, they might consider bestowing titles of some sort on Mia Farrow and Woody Allen. After all, the noisy bust-up of the American film stars' 12-year relationship served the British monarchy handsomely by shoving off the front pages of frenzy-feeding tabloids the photographs of a topless Duchess of York, a.k.a. Fergie, cavorting poolside with her American boyfriend in the presence of her two royal daughters at a rented St.-Tropez villa...
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...
...courts may not call it incest or child abuse, but the relationship is surely an abuse of power. "Does anyone really see Soon-Yi as a consenting equal?" asks West. "Would she feel free to say no to the great Woody Allen? Is she intellectually mature enough?" One reason the taboo of incest has endured so strongly is the understanding most people have that the complex emotional bonds and power relationships that exist within a family -- even an extended one -- should never be abused...