“I’m told Allen was being carefully avoided.”
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During a launch party for a literary magazine funded by the kink app, Gen Z and Millennial guests were upset when the baby boomer host’s most notorious friend arrived.
in new york times Scene report, “Feeld’s new lit mag launch party”shitty magazine” or AFM In short, the film is about the fascination between the old guard of the literary establishment and the new non-monogamous younger generation, until Woody Allen and his former adopted daughter-turned-wife Soon-Yi Previn come along. It looked like a typical meeting.
The scenario, hosted by essayist Daphne Mirkin from her spacious Manhattan apartment, would have been a perfect fit if sexual abuse allegations by another adopted son, Dylan Farrow, had not resurfaced during the #MeToo movement of 2017. , could have been something like Allen’s new film.
Writer Alex Vadukul recalled, “The team members watched with some concern as the host chatted in the corner.”
In fact, the 88-year-old Annie Hall director herself said how nostalgic this scene was for her.
“I used to go to parties that writers like Norman Mailer and George Plimpton always threw,” Allen said. new york times. “I was standing there talking to Susan Sontag and Dwight MacDonald. That’s what it was like tonight.”
But it’s hard to imagine anyone back then who would have made customers more anxious than this infamous writer.
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Remarkably, the paper of record did not interview any of the young writers who attended the conference. AFM At the launch party at Merkin’s house, there was talk all about Allen, but that doesn’t mean people didn’t talk about it.
as the cut Mention of the infamous attendee came to the profile’s writer in an article reporting on the magazine’s big launch party, held the next day at a dance club across the Gowanus Canal in Brooklyn.
“I’m told Mr. Allen was carefully avoided,” columnist Bindu Vanshinas said parenthetically.
We’re used to people’s near-universal aversion to rubbing shoulders with Silicon Valley’s hoi polloi, but we hear it happening in the world of dating apps and literary magazines. I feel a little uncomfortable.
But one thing’s for sure: If Allen or Previn take to the field, they’ll have to do so without identifying the photo — or the rest of New York City’s non-monogamous Because the perverted crowd will make a fuss.
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