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Celebrity Intelligence From
Columnist Celia Dark
A Regular Reader Writes:
Dear Celia:
I was wondering if you could tell me more about Soon-Yi Allen whose husband Woody was recently featured in the romantic promotional spot put out by the French Ministry of Tourism. She is very pretty and appears to be much younger than her husband. I was curious as to how they met. I undertand that he used to make documentaries. But what did she do? Was she well known before their relationship? Did she have famous parents? What's the story?
Sincerely,
A Regular Reader
Celia Dark Responds:
Dear Regular:
Soon-Yi Previn Allen is the adopted daughter of Andre Previn and Mia Farrow.
Although her adoptive father is not bold type famous, Mr Previn is well known to classical music fans and lovers of leaden, orchestral jazz.
Ms Farrow is best known for her brief marriage to Frank Sinatra.
Mr Allen met Ms Previn in the course of a long acquaintance with Ms Farrow. Although she was not well known prior to her very public relationship with Mr Allen, Ms Previn worked as model and is believed to have posed for a series of nude photographs (that remain as yet unpublished).
Regards
Celia Dark
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A Dedicated Fan Writes:
Dear Celia:
I was wondering whether the "Married Leading Man Type" in last Tuesday's Blind Items was actor Richard Gere.
Best Wishes,
A Dedicated Fan
Celia Dark Responds:
Dear Dedicated:
Sorry. Although Mr Gere was in fact recently remarried and almost certainly does own an expanding pear, I'd have to say that his years as leading man are pretty solidly behind him at this point.
Regards
Celia Dark
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A Dedicated Fan Writes:
Dear Celia:
I very much enjoyed director Roman Polanki's The Pianist I found it moving and very informative (I didn't know the Jews were so musical!) I was therefore somewhat flummoxed by the dust up over what seemed to me to be his recent highly deserved Academy Award nod. I know we are having problems with the French. Is this why the director was unable to attend the ceremony? If so, I would support it. But I hadn't realized he was French.
Best Wishes,
A Dedicated Fan
Celia Dark Responds:
Dear Dedicated:
A criminal jury conviction suggests that the in fact French born Polish emigre then best known for his work on China Town with actor Jack Nicholson had uncoerced [UNPRINTABLE] and [UNPRINTABLE] [UNPRINTABLE] with a drunk and drugged 13 year-old at Mr Nicholson's Los Angeles home in late 1974.
In a Michael Jackson like arrangement, the girl had been left in the care of the, then admittedly trusted, director for a day long "test shoot."
Empty prescription and champagne bottles and the director's own footage testify to the girl's increasing intoxication as well at least one act of [UNPRINTABLE] performed on the near unconcious junior high-schooler by the elfin Pole.
Interrupted by the unexpected return of Mr Nicholson's then live-in girl friend, Angelica Huston -- who contacted authorities, Mr Polanski subsequently fled to Europe where the tiny filmaker flummoxed most right thinking Americans by developing a still baffling romance with a then 18 year old Nastassja Kinski.
Perhaps the French -- and most viewers of Mr Nicholson's self-helmed Chinatown sequel The Two Jakes (1986) -- are right when they claim that 25 years exile on la Côte d'Azur is sufficient punishment for what were after all just a few moments of stolen pleasure by the obviously talented director.
However, saying the whole Nastassja Kinski thing still really sticks in their craw, L.A. County Prosecutors continue to maintain that Mr Polanski will be arrested the very moment he should ever again set foot on U.S. soil.
Regards
Celia Dark
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