When Woody Allen broke his silence over accusations that he’d sexually assaulted his adopted daughter, his comments ended with the parenthetical note, “This column will be my final word on this entire matter and no one will be responding on my behalf to any further comments on it by any party.”
But plenty of people have since spoken out – if not on Allen’s behalf, then in his favor. And Allen’s longtime publicist has made sure that the filmmaker’s supporters are being heard, forwarding links to pro-Allen commentary to a select email list that includes television networks, print and online journalists, film executives and producers and other public-relations execs.