Writes Ginia Bellafante, in "Woody Allen Is Not Sorry About His Friendship With Jeffrey Epstein/The nonagenarian director is taking a slightly different tack than many of the other powerful people associated with the disgraced former financier" (NYT).
Woody is in some of those photos the Democrats on the House Oversight Committee bestowed upon us the other day. We're told: "The images suggest that the two men, both children of postwar working-class Brooklyn, were better acquainted than previously believed. They also indicate just how taken the culturally privileged can be with the financially extravagant, felony sentencing be damned."
That is to say, Woody liked going to the lavish parties at Epstein's gigantic house in Manhattan.
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Only atheists believe you can murder somebody and get away with it. Among other things, Crimes and Misdemeanors is an exploration of faith and God.
I think Woody Allen would agree he has an obsession with sex, and you can see examples of this throughout his art. I personally haven't noticed a lot of misogyny in his films. You'd have to show me examples to make that argument.
In New York Stories, Woody Allen's mother is driving him crazy. During a magician's act, she disappears, never to be seen again. Woody is happy. Finally, his mother is out of his life.
Does he get away with this sin? No, he does not.
I think it's a misunderstanding of the movies to say Woody has been fascinated with "the evasion of consequence." There may be a character who tries to escape consequence and even succeeds but what is the author's perspective? It's more of an obsession with guilt and punishment.
I think it's a misunderstanding of the movies to say Woody has been fascinated with "the evasion of consequence."
Yeah, it's very glib. Like the reporter did a Google search and the A.I. found two examples of movies where people got away with crimes. Lame.
It's more of an obsession with guilt and punishment.
Even if he's an atheist, Allen is very Jewish. He struggles with his faith in movie after movie. There's even a miracle in Hannah and Her Sisters. (My favorite Allen movie).
Dylan Farrow. Soon-Yi. At this point I don't think he cares about being cancelled by the Woke Inquisition at all.
Were these photos pre or post conviction? I suppose context matters.
And, so what if he made two films with the same underlying theme. Maybe he was just comfortable with that concept. The author clearly has an axe to grind.
Hey! A lot of his films take place in New York City!
Bellafante means beautiful infantryman, apparently.
I’m fascinated by the framing. Every alleged interaction between Trump and Epstein is spun as potentially evil, to the extent that the Democrats X account keeps blurring women in photos with Trump and lying about them, recently taking a shot of Hawaiian Tropic models at Mar-a-Lago and blurring a photo widely available without blur. Stupid and evil.
Yet a known predator of young girls is praised as an interesting neighbor. Congresscritter Plaskett was a 5-minute story spending less time on cable than she spent texting Epstein during hearings. And we are all well aware of the intimate relationship between Bill Clinton and Epstein that is apparently the 3rd rail of DNC Media and shall not be touched.
They were the ones that hung with epstein the longest like a future cia director
If being photographed next to someone is this important, then Zelig is in big trouble.
Maybe the Epstein files aren't turning out to be such a treasure find of anti-Trump material, but that doesn't mean they can't be used to remind recalcitrant Democrat donors of their -ahem- vulnerabilities. There's still a business to run. Midterms are 'round the corner, and it's the giving season.
An Althouse theme this morning about people who make their living by spreading innuendo and falsehoods?
I remember a Woody Allen joke from his early years as a standup comedian. He flunked metaphysics because he was caught cheating on the exam--he looked into the soul of the student beside him. Kidding on the square--the failure but not the cause? Make of that what you will.
Hey Zeus Christo, amigos. How does it feel to keep swallowing the dribs and drabs from the Epstein files? All sorts of out of context information divulged strategically in a limited Hangout fashion. This isn't anything that needs to be monitored. The full story is never coming out. We're not going to see The client list. Nobody's going to ever pay for their sins. It's all way too big to convict
Everybody liked going to the lavish parties at Epstein's gigantic house in Manhattan. It was a chance to mingle with other influential people.
Corporate media is putting out so many mundane photos of people with Epstein, we are never going to get to the serious issues. Was there black mail? Were underage women exploited?
Pretending the 2022 doj settlements didnt happen
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Hey Zeus Christo, amigos. How does it feel to keep swallowing the dribs and drabs from the Epstein files?
The latest release were a bunch of public photos with black squares added. They weren't likely even in the files.
It is hilariously backfiring on the Democrats on X.
It was an attempt to keep the retards thinking the walls are closing in on Trump.
Selfie-deceitful women who abort their babies and are celebrated for their progress is a fetus... feature of liberal license.
Epstein is gonna be a self-homing torpedo just like #MeToo
Did the Dems put out the photos of Stephanopoulos and Katie Couric at Epstein's place?
So he's like Dostoyevsky?
So, I drive up to the party, and I knock on the door. The moose is next to me. My host comes to the door. I say, hello, you know the Solomons?
We enter. The moose mingled, did very well. Scored.
Some guy was trying to sell him insurance for an hour and a half. Twelve o'clock comes. They give out prizes for the best costume of the night. First prize goes to the Berkowitzs, a married couple dressed as a moose.
The moose comes in second. The moose is furious. He and the Berkowitzs lock antlers in the living room.
We need more costume parties. That's where the 21st century went wrong.
Seems that Woody Allen and Epstein had some things in common. And it was more than just being children of Middle-class (not working class) New Yorkers.
Both loved underage chicks. Both were Jewish. Both seemed to make Sex their number 1 hobby.
Woody has always has some weird obsessions. See Manhanttan and others for his love of underage girls. The other is his obsession with murder.
Who else would make a movie about someone killing their mistress because she's going to blab, and then make the Killer sympathetic?
If you pare away the humor, most of the Woody characters after Annie Hall are assholes. So, no wonder he paled around with Jeffrey Epstein and isn't sorry about it.
The only interesting thing in that entire essay is the fact that Allen is 90 years old.
The heart wants what the heart wants.
Same thing for other parts of the anatomy.
The writer says Allen might have dined out with Epstein because he was looking for material. That's the subtle, non-actionable way of phrasing it.......Well, Allen's ninety years old. Whatever he did, he got away with it and he'll go to his grave with plausible deniability.......I saw his conversation with Maher. He said that half of his films weren't very good, but that he did succeed a few times. That's a fair assessment and even his dud films had a few good scenes.
"Wonder Wheel" was similar. If I remember correctly, what the transparently "Mia" character did or didn't do resulted in her stepdaughter, the transparently "Soon Yi" character, being killed. The plot of "Cassandra's Dream" also hinges somehow on murder. It's similar with "Irrational Man," though I don't remember much of either picture.
Murder, like mafiosi or psychics, may be more a device to get a plot going than an indication of Allen's psychological depths. I don't know if it is or not, but a disclaimer is advisable.
So much "guilt by association" going on over this.
"That is to say, Woody liked going to the lavish parties at Epstein's gigantic house in Manhattan."
And anyway, the girls were all shiksas.
Everyone knew epstein lets not pretend
Yah. What Jupiter said. If you understand Jupiter's insight above @ 1155AM you understand jews and why they act the way they do.
Some discussion over whether the original of 16-year-old Tracy in Manhattan was Christina Engelhardt or Stacey Nelkin. Woody was involved with both of them in the 70s. Youth seems to have mattered more to Woody than religion or ethnicity.
Mia stopped being attractive to Woody, as Louise Lasser had years before. If Diane Keaton had wanted to keep him, would he have gone down the road he did? The Robert Downey Jr. Charlie Chaplin biopic handled Chaplin's emotional life as a hankering back for his mother or his first love. Maybe the Woody Allen biopic will do the same. Probably it will have to be made by the French though.
According to Hemingway, Woody wanted to take her to Paris. She said "Sure, if we have two separate rooms". Woody never got back to her.
"Youth seems to have mattered more to Woody than religion or ethnicity."
We can chalk up the marriage to Louise Lasser as lack of opportunity.
The reality is, almost all the people in those pictures have no association with Epstein other than they moved in some of the same circles, went to some of the same parties. There’s no reason to think they knew about, let alone participated in, his sex games.
Anyone who says otherwise is either dumb or lying.
"either dumb or lying."
Embrace the power of . . . you know the thing.
Is Tim Macquire's comment satire? Has to be. But one can't tell sometimes.
Zelig may be in trouble, but Forrest Gump is in the clear.
Soon-Yi Previn is 55.
The two of them have been together 30+ years. That’s a long time! She’s also said (in 1992) that Mia was physically abusive towards her. Not sure if that inspired her to sleep with her Mom’s boyfriend. Or maybe the physical abuse happened after Mia found out? The two of them still aren’t talking.
Interesting how so many feminists blame Woody Allen 100%. But it takes two to tango. Soon-Yi was an active participant. Is she bad too?
Another interesting thing was that he announced he loved Soon-Yi at a press conference. And that was the first time he had said the words. That’s really strange, to say it publicly before you say it privately. She wasn’t sure she believed him.
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