From: tyger@netcom.com (Kitty in the Middle)
Subject: Re: Thoughts on this whole Woody and Mia thing...
Date: Wed, 02 Sep 92 03:36:43 GMT
Organization:  I didn't do it, nobody saw me do it, you can't prove anything!
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In article <1992Aug27.135044.12143@news.nd.edu> slarsen@schumann.helios.nd.edu (susan larsen) writes:
>In article <75bns6-.tyger@netcom.com> tyger@netcom.com (Kitty in the Middle) writes:
>>
>> I personally feel that what Woody Allen did with Soon Yi Previn was 
>>*really* stupid, but I have even more of a problem with what Mia has 
>>subsequently done.
>>
>>She and that Dershowitz character have fed her eleven children to the wolves.
>>Helicopters follow Soon-Yi to school, and Mia has reportedly already been on
>>talk shows and such with the remaining children...or maybe it was just Dylan.
>>In either case, between that and the tape of Dylan she has been waving under 
>>people's noses, how much privacy do you think they have now? Zippo, most 
>>likely, and that truly sucks. Mia has turned this whole thing into a media 
>>circus out of her hurt and anger, IMHO. 
>
>Let me say, that I think it is hideous to lie to win a domestic case.  
>Whether it is Mia lying or whether it is Woody lying.  But to be charitable, 
>I suppose that it is possible that neither is "lying".

I suppose. I saw a cartoon in the Metro (local rag) that had a cartoon that
*really* bothered me. It depicted Woody and Soon-Yi in a restaraunt being 
waited on, and the waiter was saying to Soon-Yi (with pacifier in a high chair)
"Would the young hussy like some milk?" Sheesh...I'd be more willing to 
believe that  Woody or Mia was the problem than Miss Previn, and as for hussy,
get real...I don't look at this as him having sex with his daughter, as many
have asserted, but rather sex with a friend's daughter. Soon-Yi was not his
child naturally or on paper, so other than the stupidity issue, what's the 
big fat hairy deal?

>However, it is my understanding that Mia did not start the publicity rolling.
>It was Woody who filed for custody, creating the public record.  It was 
>Woody who called a number of press conferences throughout last week to 
>both explain his relationship with the young woman and to deny the 
>molestation charges.  In fact, I have not seen Mia's face at all on the 
>tube.  

She sold the tape of Dylan to newspapers and tv stations, and it was my 
understanding that she had appeared on local talk shows with the children,
but I am in California, so New York tv is not something I would know a heck
of a lot about, admittedly. Further, if someone had accused me publicly of
molesting their children, I would just as publicly deny the allegations, as
Woody did. Though this case is different in many ways, I am reminded a bit of
Aaron Hoffmeyer's x2b.

>It is my opinion that when public people decide to make 
>their private lives an issue, they deserve whatever media focus they get.
>Both Woody and Mia have been in public life for a very long time.  Both 
>of them should have realized that their activities and accusations would 
>be splattered across the global press and would be, in the end, most harm-
>ful to their children.  If these people really love their children and if 
>Woody really cares about this young woman, they will both shut their yaps 
>and let this sordid business die a natural death in the press.  It would 
>be a true shame if all these children received no better in their celebrity 
>parents/parent surrogates then a pair of self-absorbed, egoists, who would use 
>a child's life as a bargaining chip.

100% agreement, and it does seem that things have quieted down a fair bit, now
that Woody has spoken to Time...we shall see if it lasts though...

>And food for thought:  What a strange coincidence that this whole nasty 
>business came to a head less than two months prior to the opening of Mr. 
>Allen's next film, a story about a husband of many years taking up with a 
>19-year-old student of his.  Things that make you go "Hmmmmmmmm?"

Well, they say that for some writing or art in one of it's forms is cathartic
to the artist...perchance he had a guilty conscience?

>Sue Larsen

    Tyger

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