Mia wanted to work for Woody even after accusation

Diane Keaton replaced Mia Farrow in Manhattan Murder Mystery.

Mira Sorvino has publicly apologized to Dylan Farrow for appearing in a Woody Allen movie and David Krumholtz says he "deeply regrets" working with Allen.

Before anyone else begs Dylan Farrow's forgiveness, they should be aware that Mia Farrow, just days after accusing Allen of molesting Dylan in 1992, still fully intended to star in his next movie, Manhattan Murder Mystery.

... Mia called her lawyer and said something very bad had happened. Allen had taken Dylan up to the attic and molested her. She videotaped Dylan — a tape that was later reported to have been edited in-camera — then took her to the doctor for an exam.

Mia also kept on with her plans to star in Allen’s next movie, “Manhattan Murder Mystery,” and placed a call to meet with the wardrobe supervisor on Aug. 9.

“She accused me of child molestation on August 4th, right?” Allen told “60 Minutes” that November. “And August 5th, 6th, 7th, 8th, 9th — you know, the week after, she’s fully saying, ‘When do we begin our new movie? I’m going for my costume fitting next week’ . . . And I said, ‘Are you kidding? You’re accusing me of child molestation, and you think we’re just going to go on with the movie? . . . This is insane.’ ”

https://nypost.com/2014/02/08/woody-mia-a-greek-tragedy/

This was reported elsewhere at the time. Mia Farrow didn't deny it.

Krumholtz, by the way, works with James Franco, on his HBO series The Deuce. Will he apologize to Franco's actual victims?

I've said in other entries on this blog why I think the molestation accusation against Allen has been disproven, and I'm repeating myself here. The accusation was very specific---it supposedly happened on August 4th, 1992, during an arranged two-hour visit at Farrow's home in Connecticut. Allen and Dylan allegedly disappeared together---back then, it was reported they were gone for 10 minutes, now they claim it was 25 minutes during which time people in the house were scrambling to find them until they reappeared without explanation.

There were four witnesses in the house: Moses Farrow, 13, two nannies and a cook. One nanny says this Woody and Dylan disappeared together; Moses, the other nanny and the cook say that no such thing happened. The other nanny says that Allen was never out of her sight for more than five minutes and Moses, who was with them the entire time, say that Woody and Dylan never left the room. The nanny who says it did happen wrote a book in which she declared her love and devotion for Mia Farrow.

When Moses wrote about this publicly, Dylan stated that Moses was "dead to me", and that his statement was "the lowest form of evil I can imagine." Moses, who now works as a family counselor, came across as being far more credible than Dylan. Her denouncing him in such an extreme way without refuting anything he said gave the impression she was consciously lying.

I can't defend stuff Allen actually did. I can't even defend his movies after the 1970's.

I question how much effect any of this will have on his career. He's not popular anyway. This is one reason I doubt much of what Dylan says----she claims she falls apart whenever she sees a Woody Allen t-shirt or a Woody Allen poster. I had to google this. I was surprised to find that there is such a thing as a Woody Allen t-shirt. I've never seen one. I may have seen a Woody Allen poster in the 1970's, but it's hard to believe they exist now.

Allen makes low budget movies that were getting cheaper all the time. When he made Match Point, he discovered he had no money for music and had to make a deal with a company that put out a CD of public domain recordings of Caruso for the soundtrack. Cheap as they are, half his movies lose money.

Look at Eric Rohmer. He made very cheap, talky movies. He got cheaper and cheaper as he went on, eliminating one job after another until he was down to himself, a camera operator and a sound man. I saw one movie he filmed on a crowded beach and none of the vacationers seemed to pay any attention to him and his tiny film crew. I don't know why Allen's movies cost so much.

For years, Allen has been hiring major stars for his movies, getting them when they were free and had nothing better to do, paying them the minimum their union allowed. That bastard. Instead of underpaying big stars, he could be providing great gigs to little-known actors. He could be another Roger Corman, giving good roles to older stars who weren't working much.

I'll bet he could get Kevin Spacey to star in a couple of movies now.

Allen's father lived to be over a hundred and had a job when he was 90. My guess is that Allen has another ten good years left in him and at least five not-so-good years after that.