Woody Allen has been nominated 24 times and won four Academy Awards: three for Best Original Screenplay and one for Best Director (Annie Hall). He has more screenwriting Academy Award nominations than any other writer, and has won nine British Academy of Film and Television Arts Awards.
In 1992, Woody Allen divorced Mia Farrow; had an affair with Farrow’s college-age adopted daughter, Soon-Yi Previn. Allen would later marry Soon-Yi when she was 21 and he was 56 years of age. There were also allegations that Allen molested the daughter he adopted with Mia Farrow, 7-year-old Dylan.
This has all been swept under the rug, Allen has not missed a paycheck and Hollywood, long ago, looked the other way.
Joseph Brooks
Joseph Brooks was a screenwriter, director, producer, and composer. He was a prolific writer of advertising jingles and wrote the hit "My Ship Is Comin' In" as well as composing the song "You Light Up My Life" for the film of the same name that he also wrote, directed, and produced.
In October 1977 "You Light Up My Life" reached #1 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 charts. Brooks won a Grammy Award for Song of the Year, Academy Award for Best Original Song, a Golden Globe Award and an American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP) award. The song was Debby Boone's first solo hit record and her only top 40 pop hit.
Brooks also composed music for the film The Lords of Flatbush and co-produced Eddie and the Cruisers. He also directed other films and Broadway shows, including In My Life.
In June 2009, Joseph Brooks was arrested on charges of raping or sexually assaulting eleven women lured to his East Side apartment from 2005 to 2008. His female assistant, Shawni Lucier, was charged with helping him. Brooks was indicted in 2009, but committed suicide on May 22, 2011, before he could be brought to trial.
If Cosby is guilty of drugging and raping women, he should pay for his crimes (we'll never know for sure if they were willing, especially those that slept with Cosby more than once).
However, Hollywood and Entertainment Corporate America is about to erase 52 years of Cosby's legacy. The Cosby Show, easily the greatest situation comedy in television history, along with the classic cartoon, "Fat Albert" are about to be expunged from the annals of entertainment history and Black America is going right along with it.
Again, I'm certainly not condoning what Cosby may be guilty of, and he should be punished if he's found guilty, but to erase his legacy not only will destroy him (and deservedly so) but the entire cast of the Cosby Show, including the staff, along with all the collaborators of everything Cosby has done, will also suffer financially.
If you're going to do this to Cosby, Woody Allen and the works of Joseph Brooks should be eradicated as well (and that's only two of many who have committed crimes but their legacy has not been tarnished).
Where the Black and White race are concerned, America has always been a country replete with double standards and benighted pious black folks go right along with the program.
Our collective ignorance comes from centuries of being brained-washed and waiting on a guy to come out of the clouds to save the day.
It's time that we STAND UP and at least try to support an entertainer who has done far more good than harm over the course of his career. Cosby has given millions of dollars to charities throughout his career. Again, this doesn't make it right to do what he's been accused of doing, but Cosby needs our support and we're turning our backs on him.
Before any trolls make the statement, "what if one of the women were your daughter?" First of all, my daughter is not star-struck, not into name-dropping, and steers clear of drugs. Second, my daughter is about her education and making a difference in society and not chasing after an athlete or entertainer.
Allen at the age of 79 and Brooks posthumously, have been able to reap the benefits of their respective careers. There are hundreds of people still earning from residuals from both of these men. The entertainment industry is about to totally erase the legacy of Bill Cosby, and under no circumstances, is this right.
Furthermore, it's not about the alleged crimes committed, it's about Hollywood trying to eliminate one of the greatest shows in the history of television, along with obliterating 52-years of comic genius. The continued double-standard that has existed for the past 200 years in the United States of America is alive and well.
This is why the majority of Black America cheered with the OJ verdict. May the souls of Ron Goldman and Nicole Brown rest in peace. We didn't cheer because we cared about Simpson, we cheered because FINALLY, after two centuries of brutalizing, torturing, raping, displacing and disenfranchising an entire race of people, White America would finally get a taste, just a smidgen of it's own medicine.
Finally our Caucasian brothers and sisters would feel a tinge of the despair of what minorities have felt and continue to feel where the judicial system is concerned. The scales of justice have never been balanced.
