Although several biographers have tackled Allen as a subject, he has never published a straightforward memoir. In 2003, Allen was close to a deal to sell a memoir to Penguin for about $3 million, but Allen held out for more money. “For this I want a lot of money. The ball is in your court,” Mr. Allen wrote in a letter to his agent that was sent around as a proposal.
But these days, publishers are skittish about working with authors accused of sexual misconduct — for pragmatic reasons as much as ethical ones. Authors facing harassment allegations have been dropped by their agents, their finished books pulped, literary awards revoked and their books pulled from store shelves. Boycotts by readers and booksellers often snowball to envelop publishers as well.
Dylan Farrow, the adopted daughter of Allen and his former girlfriend, Mia Farrow, accused Allen of inappropriately touching her in 1992, when she was 7. Investigators found no evidence of sexual abuse. But Dylan Farrow has stood firm by her allegations, and her family remains divided, with her mother and her brother Ronan Farrow supporting her, and her brother Moses Farrow defending his father.
She reiterated them in opinion pieces in 2014 and 2017 and in a televised interview in 2018 that unleashed fresh waves of outrage against Allen. Theater adaptations of Allen’s film “Bullets Over Broadway” were canceled, and actors, including Greta Gerwig, Ellen Page, Evan Rachel Wood, Michael Caine and Colin Firth, expressed remorse at having worked with him. Several stars of the now-shelved “A Rainy Day in New York,” including Timothée Chalamet, said they would donate their proceeds from the film to charity.
Allen is still celebrated in some corners. The actress Anjelica Huston, who has appeared in two of his films, told Vulture she would work with him again “in a second.” Similarly, the Spanish actor Javier Bardem lamented the “public lynching” of the filmmaker and said he would work with him “tomorrow morning” if asked. The Spanish production company MediaPro continues to collaborate with Allen on his newest film. A MediaPro spokeswoman said that the untitled project is scheduled to start shooting in July in northern Basque Country, and that the cast was being assembled. She had no further details.
Allen, an accomplished clarinetist, also still has music fans. In June, he has an eight-city tour planned for Europe with the Eddy Davis New Orleans Jazz Band, after their weekly residency this spring in New York at the Carlyle Hotel. Those performances, which cost $165 per person, with a $75 prix fixe menu, were nearly sold out.
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