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Woody and Mia. No last names, please, for the king and queen of Manhattan's glitterati. For a decade they were the wax-doll couple atop a cake at the wedding of popular art and social responsibility. He made, and she starred in, movies that played like fantasies of their partnership. Offscreen, their liaison produced the portrait of an ideal postmodern family. Unmarried, they lived apart yet loved together. While nurturing a rainbow coalition of privileged American kids and children salvaged from the Third World, Mom and Dad lived the city's most public private lives. Tout New York...
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...
...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 the Woody-Mia story was a liaison for the ages. This was the last light that failed...
...avoided in two marriages, to Harlene Rosen and actress Louise Lasser, and in a long affair with actress Diane Keaton: to have a child. Satchel (named for ageless pitcher Satchel Paige) was born in 1987. In this Allen found the joy of fatherhood -- and of his relationship with Farrow. Mia, Woody told Lax, "has brought a completely different, meaningful dimension to my life...