Tack said:

Ryan McAvoy said:

Tack said:

EDIT: Sorry, this post was made before the information about Woody Allen's "interests" came to light. My apologies.

You wrote that post in 1993!?!

OK, before it came to my knowledge, anyway.

Yeah I know I was kidding, but he has been somewhat suspect for years after being caught taking naked photos of and then marrying the 20 year old girl he'd raised as his 'adopted' daughter since she was about 9. But there's never been a shred of evidence against him.

The question of wether you can divorce an artist's body of work from their private lives and personnal politics is a tough one. Allen's a film-making genius no question but for example, it would be a tough ask to view one of his greatest film's 1979's 'Manhattan'. Which is partly about the 42 year old Allen having a relationship with a 17 year old girl, without pausing to think. It seems terrible if his body of work should now be dismissed or diminished if he's not done a thing wrong.

Other artists like Michael Jackson, Mel Gibson, Charlton Heston, Morrissey, Wagner, Charlie Chaplin, Elvis, Roman Polanski, Ted Nugent, Leni Riefenstahl etc etc have possible troubling aspects about their real lives. Can you view their work on it's own merits, I don't know?