{"id":38900,"date":"2017-10-15T15:54:31","date_gmt":"2017-10-15T21:54:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/?p=38900"},"modified":"2017-10-15T15:54:31","modified_gmt":"2017-10-15T21:54:31","slug":"woody-allen-sad-about-harvey-weinstein-and-worried-about-a-witch-hunt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/woody-allen-sad-about-harvey-weinstein-and-worried-about-a-witch-hunt\/","title":{"rendered":"Woody Allen \u2018sad\u2019 about Harvey Weinstein and worried about a \u2018witch hunt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(JTA) \u2014 Filmmaker Woody Allen said he was \u201csad\u201d for both Harvey Weinstein and his alleged victims and expressed hope that the scandal would not lead to a \u201cwitch hunt atmosphere.\u201d<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_38901\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Woody-Allen.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-38901\" class=\"wp-image-38901 size-medium lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Woody-Allen-300x198.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"198\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Woody-Allen-300x198.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Woody-Allen-768x506.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Woody-Allen.jpg 880w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 300px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 300\/198;\" \/><noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-38901\" class=\"wp-image-38901 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Woody-Allen-300x198.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"198\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Woody-Allen-300x198.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Woody-Allen-768x506.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Woody-Allen.jpg 880w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/noscript><\/a><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-38901\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Woody Allen at the 68th annual Cannes Film Festival in Cannes, France on May 15, 2015 (Ben A. Pruchnie\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u201cThe whole Harvey Weinstein thing is very sad for everybody involved,\u201d he said in an\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-us-canada-41626750\">interview<\/a>\u00a0with the BBC published Sunday. \u201cTragic for the poor women that were involved, sad for Harvey that his life is so messed up.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere\u2019s no winners in that, it\u2019s just very, very sad and tragic for those poor women that had to go through that,\u201d Allen said.<\/p>\n<p>He added, \u201cYou also 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<\/p>\n<p>Allen, who like Weinstein is Jewish, in the early 1990s was accused of abusing his daughter Dylan Farrow shortly after his separation from wife Mia Farrow. She divorced Allen after learning of his affair with her adopted daughter, Soon-Yi Previn, whom Allen married in 1997.<\/p>\n<p>Allen has long denied the allegations.<\/p>\n<p>Weinstein helped to revive Allen\u2019s career after the alleged sex crimes came to light. He produced several of Allen\u2019s films, including the Oscar-award winning \u201cMighty Aphrodite.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Allen told the BBC he had heard \u201crumors\u201d about Weinstein\u2019s conduct, but said, \u201cNo one ever came to me or told me horror stories with any real seriousness.\u201d He said he hoped the allegations of sexual harassment, sexual assault and rape first reported on Oct. 5 in the New York Times, would lead to \u201csome amelioration.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Allen\u2019s son Ronan Farrow interviewed 13 women who said Weinstein sexually harassed or assaulted them and reported about it in the New Yorker.<\/p>\n<p>Last week, on Oct. 8, Weinstein, 65, was\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.jta.org\/2017\/10\/09\/arts-entertainment\/movie-mogul-harvey-weinstein-fired-following-sexual-harassment-claims\">fired<\/a>\u00a0from the movie production firm he started\u00a0in 2005, The Weinstein Company.\u00a0On Saturday, he was expelled from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.<\/p>\n<p>Weinstein initially apologized for his behavior, but a spokesperson said Thursday that any \u201callegations of non-consensual sex are unequivocally denied by Mr Weinstein.\u201d<\/p>\n<div style=\"padding-bottom:20px; padding-top:10px;\" class=\"hupso-share-buttons\"><!-- Hupso Share Buttons - https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/ --><a class=\"hupso_toolbar\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/share-medium.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top: 5px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" class=\"lazyload\" \/><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/share-medium.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top: 5px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\"\/><\/noscript><\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\">var hupso_services_t=new Array(\"Twitter\",\"Facebook\",\"Google Plus\",\"Pinterest\",\"Linkedin\",\"Tumblr\",\"Email\");var hupso_background_t=\"#EAF4FF\";var hupso_border_t=\"#66CCFF\";var hupso_toolbar_size_t=\"medium\";var hupso_image_folder_url = \"\";var hupso_url_t=\"\";var hupso_title_t=\"Woody%20Allen%20%E2%80%98sad%E2%80%99%20about%20Harvey%20Weinstein%20and%20worried%20about%20a%20%E2%80%98witch%20hunt\";<\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/js\/share_toolbar.js\"><\/script><!-- Hupso Share Buttons --><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":38901,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[8983,2008,8790,8795,8788],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38900"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38900"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38900\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38902,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38900\/revisions\/38902"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38901"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38900"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38900"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38900"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}