Word: allene
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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That patch of green is now their DMZ. Woody Allen, America's most revered and introspective filmmaker, and Mia Farrow, the waif who matured into a madonna in reel and real life, are at war. What began as a skirmish over custody rights of three children escalated early last week when Allen declared that he was in love with one of Farrow's adopted daughters, Soon-Yi Farrow Previn. Then the tabloid artillery went ballistic. The Connecticut police were investigating a complaint of child molestation against Allen. It was revealed that Farrow discovered the infidelity when she found nude photos...
...battle of Woody and Mia has already claimed casualties, real and figurative. Allen's life and eminence seem permanently branded; the only major filmmaker since Charlie Chaplin to be commonly referred to by his first name is now likely to be remembered in part, as Chaplin is, as a despoiler of young women. Manhattan divorce attorney Raoul Felder, alluding to another disgraced director, says of Allen, "He can put his career in an envelope and mail it to Roman Polanski...
...World Mother, selflessly adopting children to show them a good life and maternal love, is shrouded in suspicion. Soon-Yi, who says she is 21, has tumbled at least in her siblings' eyes from child- woman to Other Woman. Dylan, the seven-year-old girl adopted by Farrow and Allen, is scarred by the accusations of child abuse. And the other children must be suffering psychic retinal damage from the blinding heat of the infotainment dragon. Another casualty is the fond notion -- held by many otherwise cynical folk on both coasts and by not a few people in between -- that...
...Allen and Farrow have been a couple since 1980. For the first five years, their affair was carried on mostly at his apartment, rarely at hers, which for years has been overflowing with kids and pets: Farrow now has four biological and seven adopted children. "She likes to spend tons of time with kids," he told author Eric Lax in a biography published last year, in enumerating the opposites that attracted him to her. "I like to spend . . . only a limited time with kids." But the warming intensity of their companionship led Allen to a decision he had avoided...
...Allen, by all accounts, radiated a fatherly devotion toward Satchel and the two children he adopted with Farrow: Dylan and 14-year-old Moses. Says an old friend, TV personality Dick Cavett: "He completely rearranged his man- killingly busy life so that he could lavish time and money and attention on the children, probably more than many orthodox parents do. He'd get up at 5 and religiously make it over there seven days a week." And Farrow was devoted to his devotion. But after Satchel's birth, the romance began to wane. Their partnership has been platonic for four...