{"id":2182,"date":"2017-10-15T16:30:54","date_gmt":"2017-10-15T16:30:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/commarts.pleather.us\/2017\/10\/15\/woody-allen-calls-the-harvey-weinstein-scandal-sad-for-everybody-involved\/"},"modified":"2017-10-15T16:30:54","modified_gmt":"2017-10-15T16:30:54","slug":"woody-allen-calls-the-harvey-weinstein-scandal-sad-for-everybody-involved","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/2017\/10\/15\/woody-allen-calls-the-harvey-weinstein-scandal-sad-for-everybody-involved\/","title":{"rendered":"Woody Allen Calls the Harvey Weinstein Scandal \u2018Sad for Everybody Involved\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.indiewire.com\/t\/woody-allen\/\" id=\"auto-tag_woody-allen\">Woody Allen<\/a> has weighed in on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.indiewire.com\/t\/harvey-weinstein\/\" id=\"auto-tag_harvey-weinstein\">Harvey Weinstein<\/a> scandal, telling the BBC that it&#8217;s &#8220;sad for everybody involved&#8221; and that he hopes it doesn&#8217;t lead to &#8220;a witch-hunt atmosphere, a Salem atmosphere, where every guy in an office who winks at a woman is suddenly having to call a lawyer to defend himself.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Allen, whose new movie \u201cWonder Wheel\u201d just premiered as the closing-night selection at the New York Film Festival, has been accused of molesting his former stepdaughter Dylan Farrow.<\/span><\/p>\n<aside class=\"pmc-related-link read-more\">\n\t\t\t<strong class=\"pmc-related-type\">Read More:<\/strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.indiewire.com\/2017\/10\/the-academy-expels-harvey-weinstein-oscars-1201887452\/\" title=\"The Academy Expels Harvey Weinstein, Breaking with Tradition\">The Academy Expels Harvey Weinstein, Breaking with Tradition<\/a><br \/>\n\t\t<\/aside>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cThe whole Harvey Weinstein thing is very sad for everybody involved,\u201d Allen said. \u201cTragic for the poor women that were involved, sad for Harvey that his life is so messed up. There\u2019s no winners in that. It\u2019s just very, very sad and tragic for those poor women that had to go through that.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cYou don\u2019t want it to lead to a witch-hunt atmosphere, a Salem atmosphere, where every guy in an office who winks at a woman is suddenly having to call a lawyer to defend himself. That\u2019s not right either,\u201d he continued. \u201cBut sure, you hope that something like this could be transformed into a benefit for people rather than just a sad or tragic situation.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<aside class=\"pmc-related-link read-more\">\n\t\t\t<strong class=\"pmc-related-type\">Read More:<\/strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.indiewire.com\/2017\/10\/sarah-polley-harvey-weinstein-new-york-times-1201887493\/\" title=\"Sarah Polley Says Harvey Weinstein Is \u2018One Festering Pustule in a Diseased Industry\u2019\">Sarah Polley Says Harvey Weinstein Is \u2018One Festering Pustule in a Diseased Industry\u2019<\/a><br \/>\n\t\t<\/aside>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Allen has worked with Weinstein on more than one occasion and says that \u201cno one ever came to me or told me horror stories with any real seriousness. And they wouldn\u2019t, because you are not interested in it. You are interested in making your movie. But you do hear a million fanciful rumors all the time. And some turn out to be true and some \u2014 many \u2014 are just stories about this actress, or that actor.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<aside class=\"pmc-related-link sign-up\">\n\t\t\t<strong class=\"pmc-related-type\">Sign Up:<\/strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/indiewire.com\/email\" title=\"Stay on top of the latest breaking film and TV news! Sign up for our Email Newsletters here.\">Stay on top of the latest breaking film and TV news! Sign up for our Email Newsletters here.<\/a><br \/>\n\t\t<\/aside>\n<p>Source: IndieWire film<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Woody Allen has weighed in on the Harvey Weinstein scandal, telling the BBC that it&#8217;s &#8220;sad for everybody involved&#8221; and that&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":245,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_oasis_is_in_workflow":0,"_oasis_original":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_vp_format_video_url":"","_vp_image_focal_point":[],"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[45],"class_list":["post-2182","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-careering"],"acf":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paqOTj-zc","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2182","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/245"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2182"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2182\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}