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Details like these are half the fun of What Falls Away. Farrow knows how to orchestrate a scene, a sophisticated writing skill. She also makes each of the children's personalities distinct and, of course, sympathetic, something that professional novelists can have trouble with...
...book will be bought for the parts on Sinatra and Allen. She and Sinatra were happiest in the beginning when they were goofily in love and their relationship was largely secret. But then came the squabbles with paparazzi and "the interminable Vegas nights," when Frank was drunk and petulant. Farrow started making films in distant locations; divorce followed shortly after...
Writing about Sinatra and Previn, who was out touring for most of their marriage, Farrow is fairly mild, even philosophical. With Allen she is bitter and exacting. Minor flaws are recorded, right down to his carefully assembled casual look in clothes. Allen was fastidious. When her sister came around in a pink T shirt, he was scornful. From the start, Farrow was frustrated by his indifference to her ever growing family. Why did she keep adopting? She traces the inspiration to her son Moses, the first child she took in who was afflicted (with cerebral palsy). He was a gentle...
When the kids were not involved, there is evidence of great intimacy between Farrow and Allen. They talked four or five times a day, and even used light and mirror signals to communicate across Central Park--he lived on the east side, she on the west. But things were still tricky: "There were three of us in the relationship: Woody, his shrink and me. He didn't even buy sheets without talking...
...When Farrow found the pornographic pictures of Soon-Yi, she erupted. In a strong scene, she depicts Allen begging to come back and promising to give up her daughter, but amid floods of tears Farrow was unyielding. She realized that her trust had already been undermined by her suspicions that Allen's interest in pretty, blond Dylan--the only child he sought out--was in part erotic. "Why did I stay with Woody Allen when so much was wrong?" she asks herself. "How can I explain to my children, when even to me it is incomprehensible and unforgivable?...Wasn...