The Remarkable Rise of Young Blue Eyes, Ronan Farrow

The Remarkable Rise of Young Blue Eyes, Ronan Farrow

 

His mother, Mia Farrow, says she doesn’t know whether ’ol blue eyes, Frank Sinatra, or ol’ perv eyes, Woody Allen, impregnated her and Allen thinks “he does look a lot like” Sinatra but the paternity of Satchel Ronan O’Sullivan Farrow, now Ronan Farrow, is obviously irrelevant to his bewildering rise to stardom on MSNBC.

Touted as a veritable reincarnation of Walter Cronkite after being given the “Cronkite Award for Excellence in Exploration and Journalism” after just three days on that low-rated cable network, the twenty six year old Farrow was named to Vanity Fair’s international best-dressed list in December, described as a “reluctant” television star by the New York Times, and as a “humblebrager,” a prideful individual hiding behind a self-deprecating veneer, by PopWatch.
Ronan Farrow certainly has reason to be proud and not self-deprecating. 

He sports a résumé that would be the envy of Chris Matthews or any other  MSNBC personality.

A condensed list of Farrow’s amazing achievements over the course of his 26 years: Bard College grad at 11; Yale Law School at 18; liaison and speech writer for his late mentor Richard Holbrooke; special adviser to Secetary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton; UNICEF Spokesperson for Youth; active fundraiser for the United Nations; advocate for Darfuri refugees; Special Adviser for Humanitarian and Non-Governmental Affairs in the Office of the Special Representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan; Special Adviser for Global Youth Issues; and Director of the State Department’s Office of Global Youth Issues.

On top of all that, Farrow managed to attend Oxford University for a while to study international relations on a Rhodes Scholarship and was included in New York magazine’s list of  people ”on the verge of changing their worlds” even before he could legally buy adult beverages.

(Some of the preceding was gleaned from Wikipedia so I’m not about to vouch for all it.)

Either Mr. Young Blue Eyes is the most outstanding prodigy to arrive on the world scene since Albert Einstein, Bill Gates, and Barack Obama or he’s the best-connected boy-genius in television history.

A big favorite among the Big Apple’s liberal-leftist A-list, Farrow impressed MSNBC president Phil Griffin from the get-go.  Griffin gushed, “Within 20 minutes [of meeting him] I wanted to hire him.  He’s got it.” And now Farrow’s “got it,” namely an MSNBC contract reportedly in the millions.

However, there appears to be a major chink in the gold-plated armor of Mia’s biological son. . . (Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=36141.)

Woody Allen, Hollywood's Favorite Old Pervert--Part Two

Woody Allen, Hollywood's Favorite Old Pervert--Part Two

 

One would think that 78 year old Allan Stewart Konigsberg, aka Woody Allen, would fold his tattered tent and slink off somewhere and spend his remaining days in oblivion after his adopted daughter Dylan Farrow finally had had enough of Hollywood rewarding him and chose to “resurrect,” as one of Allen’s worshippers called it, charges he had serially molested her when she was a child of seven.

But not old Woody.

Buoyed by Dylan’s brother Moses’ accusations that their mother Mia Farrow had poisoned all her children against their “father,” Allen launched a gratuitous defense in the same New York Times that had published Dylan’s graphic charges less than a week ago in the form of an open letter.

Desperately attempting to protect what little honor he has left, in an article titled, “Woody Allen Speaks Out” which, like Dylan’s letter, appeared in the Times “opinion pages,” Hollywood’s much-honored and oft-feted, favorite old pervert presented his dismissive arguments against those who investigated the 1993 sexual molestation incident.

Cherry-picking and distorting facts, Allen professed his initial shock, hurt, and indignation over the charges, while demeaning Dylan as a Mia-brainwashed, “vulnerable” little girl and ripping her mother as a vengeful liar.

(Read Woody’s defense at http://tinyurl.com/p7u998k.)

For obvious reasons, he never references the views of Mia Farrow’s friends who believed he seemed “obsessed” by Dylan or his routine of arriving at her home at six a.m. so he could sit on the end of her bed and stare at her and his insistence that he tuck her in at night.

Nor does ol’ Woody mention his confessions in 1976 when he told People magazine, “I’m open-minded about sex.  I’m not above reproach; if anything, I’m below reproach.  I mean, if I was caught in a love nest with 15 12-year-old girls tomorrow, people would think, yeah, I always knew that about him.  Nothing I could come up with would surprise anyone. I admit to it all.”

Neither did Allen comment on his pen pal contact around that time, a then-13-year-old girl named Nancy . . . (Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=35627.)

Woody Allen, Hollywood's Favorite Pervert

Woody Allen, Hollywood's Favorite Old Pervert

 

No one could really know what was going through the mind of 78 year old Woody Allen when Ronan Farrow sarcastically tweeted immediately following last month’s 71st Golden Globes Awards show. 

After Allen received the Cecil B. DeMille Award for lifetime achievement, Farrow went on Twitter to tweet, “Missed the Woody Allen tribute–did they put the part where a woman publicly confirmed he molested her at age 7 before or after Annie Hall?” 

As per habit, Allen didn’t show up for his umpteenth award and dispatched one his idolators, former live-in Diane Keaton of Annie Hall fame, to pick it up.

What Mr. Farrow was thinking in that tweet is pretty obvious, intense musings surely shared by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association and, indeed, by all of Hollywood who knew very well what he meant and none of whom saw fit to comment–or refute.  After all, Woody Allen is a living treasure, an unparalled icon in Tinsel Town, and who would dare to be so presumptive as to cite him as a serial child molestor?

Bestowed by the Golden Globes for ”outstanding contributions to the world of entertainment,” the Cecil B. DeMille Award is clearly not based on a recipient’s character and integrity any more than character and integrity influence Oscar nominations.

Similarly, no one can really know what Allen was thinking after he read the account of the former 7 year old, Ronan’s molested woman, published in the New York Times, an open letter written by none other than Ronan’s sister Dylan Farrow, Allen’s reputed biological daughter.

Like the weather, everyone seems to talk about child sex abuse but few people ever do anything about it, least of all in Hollywood where serial pedophilia is virtually endemic.  (See “Woody Allen’s Bloodied Hands and Bloodied Children,”  http://tinyurl.com/klzee4h and “Hooray for Hollywood Pedophiles,” http://tinyurl.com/nxy7jbf.) 

Farrow’s tweet was quickly dismissed by such Allen-Twitter loyalists as Antonio Vantaggiato who wrote, ”Sorry to hear @RonanFarrow’s rage, and @thelist which fuels it, but Woody is one of the greatest film directors and deserved the tribute,” in essence saying, “So what if he’s a child predator!” . . . (Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=35502.)