That Harvey Weinstein, the alleged sexual predator Ronan Farrow was investigating, had something in common with his father, Woody Allen, was something Farrow always knew. Defending his sister Dylan Farrow, who has said since she was 7 that Allen sexually abused her, has been “weaponized against me since the moment I started talking about it,” Farrow told Variety.
So it was no surprise to him to learn that in October 2017, as Weinstein panicked — knowing that both Farrow and the New York Times were close to publishing stories designed to expose him — the studio mogul put in a call to Allen to ask him, “How did you deal with this?”
The details of the call — “Jeez, I’m so sorry. Good luck,” Allen tells Weinstein unhelpfully — among many other things, are all laid out in Farrow’s explosive book, “Catch and Kill: Lies, Spies, and a Conspiracy to Protect Predators,” published this week.
So it was no surprise to him to learn that in October 2017, as Weinstein panicked — knowing that both Farrow and the New York Times were close to publishing stories designed to expose him — the studio mogul put in a call to Allen to ask him, “How did you deal with this?”
The details of the call — “Jeez, I’m so sorry. Good luck,” Allen tells Weinstein unhelpfully — among many other things, are all laid out in Farrow’s explosive book, “Catch and Kill: Lies, Spies, and a Conspiracy to Protect Predators,” published this week.
- 10/17/2019
- by Kate Aurthur
- Variety Film + TV
On an unseasonably warm October afternoon, in a basement in the historic Cooper Union Building in Manhattan, Ronan Farrow, flanked by a team of well-dressed publicists, is diligently signing books. It is Tuesday, the day of the book’s release, and he says it is the first time he has seen them laid out en masse in labyrinthine stacks, almost like an “M.C. Escher drawing,” he says.
Farrow is one of the last true cultural polymaths. He is a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist and the author of Catch and Kill,...
Farrow is one of the last true cultural polymaths. He is a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist and the author of Catch and Kill,...
- 10/17/2019
- by EJ Dickson
- Rollingstone.com
Cougar Town Season 5, Episode 9 “Too Much Ain’t Enough”
Written by Sean Lavery
Directed by Josh Hopkins
Airs Tuesday nights at 10pm on TBS
The random, often disconnected story lines of Cougar Town‘s fifth season have made it more than a little difficult to write about – thankfully, “Too Much Ain’t Enough” brings three thematically-similar plots to the table, making things feel a lot less scatter-brained than the normal, Chick-free episodes of late. And even though “Too Much” doesn’t really find an interesting way to pull all three together, the sheer construction of the episode around a single idea allows the broad comedy and quick, cathartic resolutions coalesce with each other to at least hint at some intriguing ideas, even if they don’t outright address them.
“Too Much Ain’t Enough” is an episode about perception: perception of self, other’s perception of you – and oddly enough,...
Written by Sean Lavery
Directed by Josh Hopkins
Airs Tuesday nights at 10pm on TBS
The random, often disconnected story lines of Cougar Town‘s fifth season have made it more than a little difficult to write about – thankfully, “Too Much Ain’t Enough” brings three thematically-similar plots to the table, making things feel a lot less scatter-brained than the normal, Chick-free episodes of late. And even though “Too Much” doesn’t really find an interesting way to pull all three together, the sheer construction of the episode around a single idea allows the broad comedy and quick, cathartic resolutions coalesce with each other to at least hint at some intriguing ideas, even if they don’t outright address them.
“Too Much Ain’t Enough” is an episode about perception: perception of self, other’s perception of you – and oddly enough,...
- 3/6/2014
- by Randy Dankievitch
- SoundOnSight
Cougar Town Season 4, Episode 13 ‘The Criminal Kind’
Directed by Randall Winston
Written by Sean Lavery
Airs Tuesday nights at 10pm Et on TBS
In theory, The Breakfast Club would be a wonderful homage on a television show, especially a comedy, where the idea of family is imprinted in the genre’s DNA. At its heart, The Breakfast Club is about disgruntled teenage stereotypes uniting to rebel against said stereotypes, providing them with important moments of realization and self-recognition. But in practice (at least in the way Cougar Town employed it), it just feels empty, relying on the easy ‘wink,wink’ homage moments and joke-filled voice overs that are neither revealing nor humorous in any way.
‘The Criminal Kind’ just didn’t have compelling material for its main characters, and the Breakfast Club homages feel more like a necessary distraction than an creative use of meta-fiction. Of course, the show goes...
Directed by Randall Winston
Written by Sean Lavery
Airs Tuesday nights at 10pm Et on TBS
In theory, The Breakfast Club would be a wonderful homage on a television show, especially a comedy, where the idea of family is imprinted in the genre’s DNA. At its heart, The Breakfast Club is about disgruntled teenage stereotypes uniting to rebel against said stereotypes, providing them with important moments of realization and self-recognition. But in practice (at least in the way Cougar Town employed it), it just feels empty, relying on the easy ‘wink,wink’ homage moments and joke-filled voice overs that are neither revealing nor humorous in any way.
‘The Criminal Kind’ just didn’t have compelling material for its main characters, and the Breakfast Club homages feel more like a necessary distraction than an creative use of meta-fiction. Of course, the show goes...
- 4/3/2013
- by Randy
- SoundOnSight
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