#woody-allen

#woody-allen

"My reaction has always been the same," Allen told Variety in an interview published this week. "The situation has been investigated by ... two major investigative bodies. And both, after long detailed investigations, concluded there was no merit to these charges. ... The fact that it lingers on always makes me think that maybe people like the idea that it lingers on. You know, maybe there's something appealing to people."

Isaw Woody Allen onscreen for the first time as a 17-year-old, a senior at an all-girls Catholic school in a small New England town called Riverside. In the middle-class Rhode Island suburb where I was brought up, the type of person Woody Allen plays in Manhattan -a glib, disaffected, neurotic, middle-aged TV writer-did not exist. Or if they did, I had no knowledge of them-and that's probably the way it should be,