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...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...
featuring Woody Allen, Soon-Yi Previn...
...wrong reason to attend. "I'm not a sufficient enough musician to hold their attention," Allen frets, but his travelling companions, apparently used to his anxieties, gently console him. These initial scenes of conversation not only introduce us to the various members of the caravan, including then-fiancee Soon-Yi Previn, they also establish the level of access we get to Woody throughout Wild Man Blues.He talks comfortably, even conversationally before the camera, and he is as happy to discuss perceptions of him as he is presenting his own thoughts...
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...