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Some people detected a heavy dose last week in the tabloid drama involving Woody Allen and Mia Farrow's adopted daughter...
...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 of Soon-Yi that Allen had taken. Farrow was mobilizing her loyal kids, sending them to newspapers and TV shows, to defend...
...moral: Never believe in the fairy tales movie people create. They will buoy your spirit and, with the flick of a headline, crush it. Another moral: Don't always heed what you read. The tabloid newspapers, especially in New York City, have feasted on this fracas, one-upping each other daily in the body count of revoltin' developments. With all the soiled laundry of unverified allegations, the facts are hard to determine, let alone the truth. Every journalist is, perforce, a garbologist...
...this late date in human devolution, we should be surprised by no atrocity, no anarchic spasm of the emotions, no paternal love turned to lust, no feelings of rejection twisted into an urge to revenge. We should be surprised only by our surprise. The innocent prurience of our tabloid souls suggests that a deep part of us craves for people to be good and for beginnings, at least, to be happy...
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...