I got me a Woody...

One day when he's dead people will finally realise that Woody Allen has made five or six of the best movies in American film history. Unlike this daft cow here.
It really gets on my tits when hacks from a whore business like journalism have a go at artists, applying their own compromised, tired logic to the work of the people who turned their back on the kings shilling, deciding instead to create for a living.
This lassie's main bone of contention with Woody Allen seems to be based on Allen as a person and his "dubious" relationship with His ex-lover Mia Farrow's adopted daughter. The suggestion that "he'd been in loco parentis (however semi-detached) for eight very impressionable years" with Soon-Yi is an ugly and clumsy attempt at implying paedophilia, supporting Farrow's rather desperate claims that Allen abused her other children. These allegations were made once Farrow realised that without Allen, her career was pretty much over and were subsequently retracted. It's pish anyway.
Allen might have been Mommy's boyfriend but he never raised Soon-Yi, she's Andre Previn's adopted daughter, not his.
In any case, Allen's behaviour in his personal life is beside the point.
What does the person have to do with the art? What has who you're boning have to do with the quality of work you produce? Sinatra was a wanker, ditto Van Gogh. George Best has been a waste of space for decades and Hemingway was a boor. So what?
That's the point of art; to create something beautiful and worthwhile in spite of your human fallibility.

Even if you do accept the criticism of Woody Allen as a person you have to be stunned by the gall of some hack nobody who during her piece claims Allen's latest film suffers because of an "overlong, badly structured, underdeveloped script". Yeah because what does a fanny like Woody Allen know about writing eh? He's only one of the most accomplished writers and filmmakers in cinema history.
And therein lies the fundamental difference between the two schools of writing. Creative writers create for the sake of creating, sure to entertain and to make money, but also to see if what they are saying about life has any resonance. With journalism it's either build up or tear down, there's always an angle. In the press, Woody Allen's new film is always a "disaster" or "his funniest comedy in years!".
Allen's best work is behind him, we all know that, so does he. After all, he's 70 years old. It's just a shame to see someone so transparently jealous of his talent and freedom attempt to crassly tear him down.