Word: yi
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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WOODY ALLEN AND SOON YI PREVIN He was 56; she was 21 (although she has no birth certificate, and could have been younger) But: technically, he was not her father...
...PARENTS. WOODY ALLEN, 63, filmmaker, and his wife SOON-YI PREVIN, 28, have a daughter, Bechet Dumaine Allen. A spokesman for Allen would not comment on whether the couple's first child, named for jazz clarinetist Sidney Bechet, was adopted or biological...
...Woody. Ever since Woody Allen ran off with Mia Farrow's adopted daughter Soon-Yi, an icy frost has descended on the relationship between these two stars of the screen and former lovers. Mia even maliciously charged Woody with child molestation. Maybe Jackson can sort this whole mess out. After all, he did counsel the First Family in the aftermath of the President's infidelity. Mia, Woody, and even Soon-Yi, should gather with the good Reverend, join hands and see if they can't all forgive each other...
Which brings us to the Soon-Yi question.Without a doubt, one of Wild Man Blues'sbig selling points is its unprecedented accessinto the Woody/Soon-Yi relationship, which provesto be both nervily discomfiting and prosaicallynormal. Soon-Yi herself, whose first line in thefilm is "Yeah," comes across as a profoundlyhesitant and unformed personality, with littlefaith in her own convictions or conversation.Nevertheless, she earnestly tries to support andencourage Woody, and to prevent his anxieties fromcompromising his friendships, as when she stressesthe importance of praising his bandmates...
...kicker sequence is the last, when Woody andSoon-Yi return to New York and have lunch with hisparents. His father is 96 and has never seen oneof his films. His mother looks just like Woody andasserts that, throughout his growing up, "You did alot of good things but you never pursuedthem"--this while three of his Oscars sit atop thebureau over her shoulder, and a filmmaking crewsits in her dining room following his movements.You can't impress everyone all the time, I guess...