Listen as Larry spoke with Mark Hemingway, Book Editor at The Federalist, regarding his latest article, Why Liberals Have Such A Hard Time With ‘Monstrous Men’ And Their Art.
Why Liberals Have Such A Hard Time With ‘Monstrous Men’ And Their Art
Claire Dederer has written a much-discussed essay for The Paris Review, “What We Do With the Art of Monstrous Men?” It’s a good question, and Dederer, a former film critic and author, focuses much of the essay on the difficulty of evaluating Woody Allen’s work in light of the Great Sexual Harassment Panic of 2017.
Specifically, there’s no getting around Allen’s celebrated film “Manhattan.” Allen’s character in the film dates a 17 year-old Mariel Hemingway, as if an older man having a sexual relationship with a teenager is a perfectly normal thing to do. It certainly doesn’t seem so normal when you consider that Allen later started dating, and eventually married, the adopted teenage daughter of his then-wife Mia Farrow. [Read More]
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