re: Late to the party, I'm sure. Blue Jasmine

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she claimed that he was a child molester.

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with no material evidence. A seven year old will say or believe anything you tell them to. Mia is a sweet woman and generally means well but she is a complete bat-shite crazy liar when it comes to Woody. A sane person does not adopt 20 kids thinking she can actually parent them all adequately.

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married a 16 year old when he was 19

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This was really not unusual among the New York jewish community in the 50s.

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found nude photos of her adopted daughter (who was 20) that Woody had taken

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Everyone (including me) thought this was extremely creepy and strange at the time. It made all the other shite about him seem believable.

However, they are now married 20 years, and Soon-Yi is obviously not some kind of victim at this point. I think a prolonged (healthy as far as we know) relationship kind of vindicates him of all that creepiness, and supports the case that all the other accusations are probably bullshite.

Woody Allen is a titan in the history of our culture when it comes to humor, filmmaking, and writing. No one comes even close to his level of output, and most of it is high quality. Some of it is immortally brilliant.

Bottom line is, there is almost no reason to suspect he has done anything wrong at this point. Enjoy his brilliance with a clear conscience.