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Article: O sole Mia. (conflict between Woody Allen and Mia Farrow)
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- Commonweal
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- June 18, 1993
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I hereby announce that Mia Farrow has won the first annual Richard Nixon Moral Philosopher of the Year Award. (It is named for Nixon because of his immortal words, "But that would be wrong.") Let me explain.
Though I have seen my share of Woody Allen movies over the years, I have never been a cult follower. The early movies seemed to me the kind that would have been made by a talented sophomore, and since I have always had something of a prejudice against sophomores, I stayed away from his films for years. By the time I broke down and returned, in the era of Annie Hall, I discovered to my delight that Woody had become a sort of American Chekhov. Unfortunately, ...