They were making the movie "Manhattan" together, and he'd been trying to get her to go to Paris with him. When he � as Howard Kurtz puts it � "fumbled for his glasses," she announced: "I can�t go to Paris with you."
The headline chez Kurtz (at Fox News) is: "Young Mariel Hemingway had to rebuff Woody Allen�s advances."
Is that fair? I know it's fun to kick Woody Allen around, but "rebuff... advances" creates a picture of him groping her. And "Young Mariel Hemingway" suggests an underage female (like the character Hemingway played in "Manhattan"). But it was a powerful and not-all-that-old movie star inviting an adult female into an old-school romantic adventure. I mean � it's a romance clich�! � Paris.
Yeah, older men like younger women and trips to Paris are tempting. It may be a little hard to say no, but I can't believe there was that much scheming and trapping going on here, because how smart do you have to be � and I hear Woody's a genius � to figure out that you get the young lady to isolate herself with you in Paris by saying "Of course, you'll have your own room, and it will be a beautiful room in this charming hotel, blah blah blah. I would simply love to show you Paris, blah blah blah, museums... restaurants... the Seine blah, blah, blah"" You figure out how to lure her into your room after you're there.
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