I don’t buy that they ‘never spent a moment together’ – but I can even let that point go. Soon-Yi was 12 when Farrow and Allen started dating and even if she never saw Allen as a father and he never saw him as a daughter they were both members of the same family for a solid decade. This is what Allen’s son has to say on the subject (from Allen’s wikipedia page):

"He's my father married to my sister. That makes me his son and his brother-in-law. That is such a moral transgression. I cannot see him. I cannot have a relationship with my father and be morally consistent... I lived with all these adopted children, so they are my family. To say Soon-Yi was not my sister is an insult to all adopted children."

I’ll agree we’re not talking straight up incest and it’s NOT pedophilia or these men wouldn’t still be interested in these now women. But my visceral reaction is this is still really icky. I’m not planning a protest or a boycott but I really can’t see myself forgetting for 2 hours in a dark movie theater. And, while you clearly don’t agree with me don’t kid yourself that I’m alone in feeling this way. I think Freeman especially (who is really a wonderful actor with a much wider appeal then Allen) is going to have a really hard time with this story if it turns out to be true.

People have kids, crying babies, dogs, cats that knock things over in the middle of the night and schedules that are different from yours. You’re NEVER going to find total peace in an apartment in an urban area. All night I hear the front door buzzer, people running up and down the stairs, a neighbor who sings Whitney Houston songs in the shower, another neighbor who comes home late and is always clattering around the kitchen at midnight – not to mention the summer sounds of cars vibrating with loud music, helicopters searching the streets for who knows what and sirens from all sorts of emergency vehicles. And I live in a quiet tree lined Brooklyn neighborhood! These are just the comforting noises of any urban area, especially in the summer months, and I couldn’t sleep without them.

I completely agree with you. I'm due next month and if I hear my doctor say 'fetal distress' in the delivery room I'm going to do whatever she says I need to do. I know that doctors sometimes make mistakes and I'm sure they do tend to overreact in favor of keeping everyone safe - but I'm just not in a position to be the judge of those things at that moment. Squat in the wood? No thanks - I want a healthy baby more then any sort of specific birthing experience. Call me crazy - but I trust my doctor to do what's best for all of us (and she works at a Catholic hospital too).

I wonder what, at this very dangerous moment in her delivery, was going on to make the health professionals in that room think that this woman was in no position to have a newborn in her care - to me that sounds like private medical/mental stuff that's really none of my business. If everyone now says it's not about the c-section there must have been something else going on. And then all the strangeness afterward? This sounds like a complicated situation.

That this woman was able to have a vaginal birth in the end is really beside the point - it sounds like it just as easily could have gone the other way. And if this woman and her baby had both died it would have been 100% that doctor's fault.

I’m really surprised to hear so many people come to the defense of tanning beds. Living in NYC I’ve got to tell you that it’s considered pretty tacky. Don’t have perfect skin? Spend that money getting facials and body wraps at the spa. But tanning beds strike me as low class and uneducated. It’s like fake boobs or acrylic nails. I figured Salon readers would be as snotty about this as I am (and I’ll admit I’m being snotty). And that orange color that tanning bed users seem to be in such denial about – yikes!

I’ll get a nice, healthy glow and let some freckles shine in the summer months or when I get to go away to the Caribbean in the winter. But a full on tan, no matter how you come by it, seems over the top.

Last year Jezebel ran a wonderful article on the politics and economics of ‘The Long Winter.’ Was Rose behind the political leanings of the books? After reading ‘The First Four Years’ I always thought of Rose as a poor writer so it’s something I hadn’t considered before – but I’ll admit it is a fascinating subject.

This is that Jezebel link – if you don’t think the books have a political slant I think this article will change your mind:

http://jezebel.com/5061793/the-long-winter-cold-comfort-or-in-which-i-dont-even-try-to-fight-the-metaphor

It’s too bad this Broadsheet post added NOTHING to the conversation - a NY Post style headline, a rundown of the TV show and a pitting of mother against daughter is not cool, intelligent or feminist.

Sure she was a bitch. But she wasn’t a victim, she never moped around after some questionable guy and at the end she crinkled up her pre-nose job face and thrashed the principal. And she landed a date with Charlie Sheen!

Pretty in Pink? Ugliest prom dress ever and Ducky should have won out. Some Kind of Wonderful? The guy was so lame (spending his saving’s on a pair of earrings?) that I don’t understand how he was worth the trouble. Don't even get me started on 16 Candles.