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On second thought: All you need to know about Woody Allen sex abuse case

The charge that Allen molested Dylan Farrow surfaced in 1992, in the wake of his breakup with Mia Farrow

Jerry Lacy, Woody Allen and Diane Keaton in Play It Again, Sam
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Jerry Lacy, Woody Allen and Diane Keaton in Play It Again, Sam

A O Scott | NYT
On the morning of the Oscar nominations, I was chatting with a stranger about movies, as one does. The conversation turned to Woody Allen. “My son has seen all his movies, and he thinks he’s innocent,” she said. “I’ve seen all his movies, and I think he’s guilty,” I said. There was not much else to say.

There is a lot more to say. The words we chose weren’t quite the right ones. Innocence and guilt are legal (and also metaphysical) standards, but when we talk about the behaviour of artists and our feelings about them, we are inevitably dealing with

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