Once upon a time when I was an aspiring screenwriter, I wrote stories that centered on women or at least included them, and Hollywood explained to me that if women characters did anything that didn’t revolve around male characters, it would cause a movie to bomb. It wasn’t their fault, they said; it was the
Ted Cruz polls his own Facebook about Obamacare, finds everyone loves it
Prepare to laugh. Ted Cruz asked on March 24, on his own Facebook page, whether people were better off now with Obamacare. One can only assume he expected the same kind of negative responses that happened during that awkward period when people were struggling to sign up on the screwy website and hadn’t yet experienced
What you have to believe, to believe Woody Allen’s version
Recently I described what you need to believe about Woody Allen to in order to believe he molested Dylan Farrow. Today I’m considering the other side: what you need to believe in order to believe Allen’s version of events. Namely, that Mia Farrow coached Dylan to believe she was molested by Allen, and that this
Judge’s ruling against Woody Allen for custody
Recently, I stated that what I would most like to see come from this Woody Allen controversy is simply that there is no exonerating trait that precludes a person from being a child molester. And for that matter, no trait that precludes Dylan from having told a truthful and accurate account of events. What conclusions
It’s not about believing Dylan Farrow
Dylan Farrow has shared her very personal account of being sexually assaulted by Woody Allen, her adopted father, in the New York Times. Most commenters around the web are rushing to defend Allen, claiming he was “exonerated” back in 1993 when it was first reported. Claiming that the fact that Mia and Dylan didn’t take
