LEast week, 30 Rock Actor Alec Baldwin speaks in defense of Woody Allen following the premiere of HBO Alan vs. Farrow, A four-part document investigating allegations that the famous filmmaker sexually harassed his Connecticut-adopted daughter, Dylan Pharaoh, at his Connecticut home in 1992, 1992.
“Who needs a courtroom or the rule of law when a hearing is held by the media?” Baldwin wrote on Twitter, along with an article about the documentary.
The Baldwin Critic was sent to hundreds of thousands of his followers on the second day of its premiere, so it appears S.N.L.Trump decided to rule on the whole series only after watching his first episode. The whole, Alan vs. Farrow Not just the testimony of Dylan, Mia and Ronan Farrow, but audio dio recordings of meetings with neighbors, family friends, city and state officials, and phone calls between Woody and Mia.
Her filmmakers, Kirby Dick and Amy Ziring, were a little surprised by the “trial by the media” accusation.
“Wow. How can he say that? He hasn’t seen the whole thing yet, “Ziring told the Daily Beast. “I think the trial by the media has happened over the last three decades, Alec. Let’s see who was tried and convicted. He should a) watch the series; And b) see the role of the media in spreading spin instead of truth, not doing any fact-checking, provoking someone and blaming him. [Mia Farrow] Talk to us about the trial for three decades without any proper attention, and then through the media. “
The third episode of Alan vs. Farrow, Premiering this Sunday night, is actually focused on how Ellen turned the media into a weapon against Farrow in the wake of Dylan’s teasing allegations against Ellen. He held a press conference at The Plaza Hotel in Manhattan shortly after the news that Allen was being investigated by police, where he announced his love for Sun-Yi, Pharaoh’s college-led daughter, and went on a rampage to cook a teasing suit outside. Was charged. However, Farrow Dillon was brought to the pediatrician to discuss the allegations against him, and the pediatrician independently reported it to the police.
Following the pressure, Alan had a cover story interview Time, Newsweek, And People, And sat down to visit together 60 minutes. Mia Farrow says she wanted to keep the matter private for the sake of her children and did not give an interview at the time. Because of her attitude, Ellen’s statement probably caught on in the media, and broadly public consciousness, casting Pharaoh as a woman of revenge.
“When the story came out he chose to protect his family.”
“Woody’s story was so popular because Mia chose not to talk to the media because she knew it would provoke the media more if she did, and her family was already having such a shocking effect. , Dick explains, the best thing for his family was not to say anything. “So he chose to protect his family as soon as the story came out.”
“I want to raise a point back to Alec Baldwin: if you look at the series, it is Woody Allen Went public with the story. It wasn’t Mia, “adds Ziring. “It was Woody Allen who called the first press conference. That Woody Allen who covered himself Time And Newsweek, And agree to that 60 minutes Interview. This is the first time Mia has spoken at length about this issue on camera. ”
Then again, Baldwin is not exactly a poster child for the #MeToo movement. Back in 2017, he criticized Rose McGowan, one of Harvey Weinstein’s alleged rape victims, with whom he had reached a financial settlement. Baldwin also complained to Maggie Kelly that the #MeToo movement targeted innocent men and joked that it was “inappropriate” to touch his wife, Hilaria Baldwin – who is not Spanish. (He also had the notorious appearance of robbing a good friend James Tobeck in a documentary with Roman Polanski aboard a yacht.)
Another character who enters the arena of episode 3 Alan vs. Farrow The filmmaker’s longtime lawyer is Elkan Abramawitz, who represented Allen at the time of the abuse and subsequent child custody trial (another of his previous clients: Harvey Weinstein). Abramawitz was retained earlier this week by New York Governor Rev. Andrew Cuomo, who investigated his alleged cover-up of his death at the Covid Nursing Home, as well as three sexual harassment charges against him, two of his former colleagues.
When I mentioned the Kick and Mona news to Dick and Ziring, they could help but not laugh.
“Hey darling. I don’t think he’s seen the series,” gives Ziring. “I don’t think those episodes have aired yet, so he wouldn’t have known – and neither would Elkan.”
“There seems to be a roster of common suspects about having traffic in such cases,” he adds. “They know the playbook.”
Speaking of Baldwin, he announced on Wednesday night that he was leaving Twitter once again, calling it a place where “all cowsheds in the United States and beyond go to get an advanced degree of insolvency.”
The Daily Beast will have additional conversations with Kirby Dick and Amy Ziring soon following episodes 3 and 4. Alan vs. Farrow.
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