WaitingforRuffcorn wrote:
Joe Orr Road Rod wrote:
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My mother, of course, had her own darkness. She married 50-year-old Frank Sinatra when she was only 21. After they divorced, she moved in to live with her close friend Dory Previn and her husband André. When my mother became pregnant by André, the Previns’ marriage broke up, leading to Dory’s institutionalization. It was never spoken of in our home, of course, and not even known to me until a few years ago. But, as I look at it – as a licensed therapist as well as an eyewitness – it’s easy to see the seeds of dysfunction that would flourish within our own home.
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To those who have become convinced of my father’s guilt, I ask you to consider this: In this time of #MeToo, when so many movie heavyweights have faced dozens of accusations, my father has been accused of wrongdoing only once, by an enraged ex-partner during contentious custody negotiations. During almost 60 years in the public eye, not one other person has come forward to accuse him of even behaving badly on a date, or acting inappropriately in any professional situation, let alone molesting a child. As a trained professional, I know that child molestation is a compulsive sickness and deviation that demands repetition. Dylan was alone with Woody in his apartment countless times over the years without a hint of impropriety, yet some would have you believe that at the age of 56, he suddenly decided to become a child molester in a house full of hostile people ordered to watch him like a hawk.
I've never knew all this before. It certainly seems like this is a a revenge plot by a crazy person.
It's a really odd world where falling in love with your paramour's young daughter (an adopted daughter without a father in the house, no less) is not considered "wrongdoing".
Maybe it wasn't criminal, but how can a "licensed therapist" dismiss the behavior.
How can a brother to the girl, for that matter. If some lech had come sniffing around my sister when we were in our teens, he and I would have had a discussion.
This is really the problem with discussing other possible acts by Woody. What we already know as fact and agreed to by all sides is sufficiently damning.