Miles Williams Mathis: WOODY ALLEN & the Teutonic Knights
First published by Miles Mathis on August 6, 2018
I know, you are saying:
“you have to be kidding us with that title!
Woody Allen as a Teutonic Knight?
Next you will be telling us he was a Roman gladiator.”
Well, I am not telling you he is a knight (though they still exist)*.
I am telling you there is a link.
You will be glad to know this isn’t about Woody’s alleged sexual transgressions.
I think we have all heard more than enough about that.
My readers know that I used to be a Woody Allen fan.
Heywood Allen (born Allan Stewart Konigsberg; November 30, 1935) is an American filmmaker, actor, and comedian whose career spans more than six decades. Allen has received many accolades, including the most nominations (16) for the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay. He has won four Academy Awards, ten BAFTA Awards, two Golden Globe Awards and a Grammy Award, as well as nominations for an Emmy Award and a Tony Award. Allen was awarded an Honorary Golden Lion in 1995, the BAFTA Fellowship in 1997, an Honorary Palme d’Or in 2002, and the Golden Globe Cecil B. DeMille Award in 2014. Two of his films have been inducted into the National Film Registry by the Library of Congress.
I no longer am, but it has nothing to do with the sex scandals.
It has to do with movies like Midnight in Paris, which was so bad it was hard for me to accept it was written by the same guy who wrote Hannah and her Sisters.
I am not fully convinced it was.
Yes, people get old and lose their touch, but I feel there is more to it than that.
Anyway, that is not what this paper is about, either.
I still like his earlier stuff, and haven’t let anything ruin Play it Again, Sam for me.
Woody was a very funny guy and there is no getting around that.
But what I wanted to know here is where did Woody really come from.
Like the rest, we are told he came from the middle class, rising only on his talents, but with a real name like Allan Stewart Konigsberg, we can be sure that isn’t true.
That is what got me in here.
I finally tripped over all the clues in that name, which is probably why we never hear it.
Another thing that got me thinking was seeing him interview Bill Buckley back in the day.
It was in the late 60s, and I was shocked at how chummy they were.
Buckley was always a fascist, doing nothing to hide it, and we now know he was CIA.
While Woody has always supposedly been a leftist or liberal or whatever you want to call it.
So why were they grinning so hugely at one another here, I asked myself.
Why would Woody call Buckley “charming”, when in fact Buckley had perhaps the least charm of anyone who has ever appeared on TV?
If it were me, and I had been asked to interview Buckley, I could have hardly gotten through it without puking.
If I had smiled and made nice as part of my job, you could have seen right through it.
I would have still been shooting him daggers with my eyes the whole time.
Even Dick Cavett had a hard time stomaching Buckley.
Richard Alva Cavett (/ˈkævɪt/; born November 19, 1936) is an American television personality and former talk show host. He appeared regularly on nationally broadcast television in the United States from the 1960s through the 2000s.
But Woody didn’t seem conflicted at all.
He actually seemed amused by Buckley.
They disagreed on nothing and of course agreed on Israel.
To figure it out, let’s go back to Woody’s name.
I can’t believe I never noticed the middle name Stewart.
That sort of jumps out at us now, doesn’t it, given what we have learned in the past few years.
Before, we probably would have read it as a common given name, but now that we are wiser, we see it as a probable surname.
Which makes it all the stranger in its position here.
We remind ourselves that it is not a name usually taken by admitted Jews—either as a given name or surname—and Woody has never denied he is Jewish or tried to hide it or downplay it.
Rather the reverse, of course.
Stewart is a name we have seen with crypto-Jews, especially hailing back to Scotland, but the Konigsbergs and Cherrys (Woody’s maternal line) are supposed to be from Russia and Austria.
Curious, since we find Cherrys in the British peerage.
So, our first guess would be that Woody descends in one recent and important line from the famous Stewarts/Stuarts of Scotland and England.
Almost all famous people we have looked at have been related to these Stewarts, and Woody is famous, so that is just playing the odds.
Unfortunately, we find no easy proof of that, since Geni and Geneanet both scrub Woody in the same way.
Little information is forthcoming, so the best we can do is guess.
The only information we get at the genealogy sites is information on Woody’s Konigsbergs.
We go back many generations, finding ourselves first in Russia and then Lithuania.
This is a clue, because Konigsberg is a famous old town in that little sliver of land beneath Lithuania that is sometimes left out of modern maps, like Western Sahara.
It is north of Poland and west of Russia, sometimes in the past belonging to Poland, Germany, or Lithuania, but now held by Russia as Kaliningrad.
And things get very deep very fast when we study Konigsberg.
First of all, it is a Hanseatic seaport, which means it was (and is) an important part of the maritime trade in the region.
Given what we have just learned in Gerry’s series linking the Israelites to the Phoenicians, this should jog something in that pretty head of yours.
Especially when we link it to another important clue:
Konigsberg was founded by Teutonic Knights in 1255.
If you don’t know what that infers, see my paper on the Crusades, and substitute what we learned about the Knights Templar there for the Teutonic Knights here.
Miles Williams Mathis: Philip III the Bold & the Crusades – Library of Rickandria
We will see they were the same people hiding behind the same basic story.
Meaning?
Well, I showed there that the Templars were actually Jewish.
In fact, everyone involved in the Crusades was Jewish, including the Kings of France, the Byzantine Emperors, and even the Popes.
Not only that, but they were closely related, all being from the same families originating in Armenia.
We find exactly the same red flags on the Teutonic Knights, since they also go back to the same families: namely the Komnenes.
The Teutonic Knights were founded in Acre in 1190, and although their famous shield is a black cross on white, based on the Jerusalem cross, their coat of arms adds a Phoenix rising.
As in Phoenician.
Miles Williams Mathis: Phoenicians – Where did they ALL Go? – Library of Rickandria
Some will tell me that is a black eagle or imperial eagle, not a phoenix.
But I think otherwise.
To start with, the black eagle isn’t a bird of Europe or the Middle East.
It is a bird of India and China and does not migrate.
The black indicates rather the phoenix charred by flames.
The red highlights indicate the same thing.
The fleurs de lis are another clue, since they point to the same people.
The Scythians and Kushans both used the fleur de lis before the French did, and I remind you the Phoenicians traded both east and west.
If you still don’t believe me, study earlier depictions of this black bird, as in the painting of Grand Master Knight Hermann von Salza below.
Hermann von Salza (or Herman of Salza; c. 1165 – 20 March 1239) was the fourth Grand Master of the Teutonic Knights, serving from 1210 to 1239. A skilled diplomat with ties to the Frederick II and the Pope, Hermann oversaw the expansion of the military order into Prussia.
In these, the bird’s neck is preternaturally long, and no one has ever seen an eagle with a neck like that.
In other depictions, the bird has a screaming red tongue, that no eagle ever had but that a phoenix might have.
In many others, the bird had two heads, which is an attribute of the phoenix but not of the eagle.
Explains a lot, doesn’t it?
[Also notice the “33”.]
Like the Templars, the Teutons were allegedly founded as a Christian military order to protect pilgrims traveling to the Holy Land.
But we have seen that both were created by Jewish traders to protect their trading routes.
The Christian monastic story was just a cover.
They give you the clue, though no one reads it right:
Jerusalem is in their title.
Orden der Brüder vom Deutschen Haus St. Mariens in Jerusalem.
They are brothers in Jerusalem.
Before arriving in Konigsberg, they headquartered in Transylvania, where Andrew of Jerusalem was king.
Andrew was part of the old Arpad dynasty, which we have linked to the families in earlier papers and will do again here.
In other words, he was Jewish, descended from the Komnenes and others.
In fact, his daughter is one of the patron saints of the Knights.
She was St. Elizabeth, and she was descended through her mother from Baldwin of Jerusalem and Morphia of Melitene.
She is also connected to Kievan Rus through her ancestor Vladimir the Great.
So, we have that strange link as well.
It is difficult to say why the Knights used her as a patron saint, except that she was a pretty cousin who died young, wronged by her relatives.
Possibly one of the early knights was in love with her.
More likely they used her story as more pseudo-Christian cover.
This leads us into a short but interesting diversion.
Andrew’s mother was a noblewoman from Kiev, and her grandmother was Gytha of Wessex.
What?
Was there a Wessex in the Ukraine at that time?
No, she was the daughter of Harold the Saxon, the very same Harold defeated by William the Conqueror in 1066.
So, although you might think these areas were ruled locally back in the 1000s, they weren’t.
There were ties between Russia and England even before there was a Russia and an England [Denmark is also included, since Gytha’s uncle was King of Denmark].
We later saw the Romanovs closely related to the Hanovers, but the rulers of those same lands were marrying one another 900 years earlier.
So much less may have changed over the past millennium than you thought.
Which leads us to ask, Were the Romanovs actually the Rurikids, just under a changed name?
Possibly.
According to mainstream history, the Rurik dynasty goes back to 862, when Rurik was invited from Scandinavia to rule Russia.
Folk history tells of the Finnic and Slavic tribes in the area calling on:
“the Varangians”
[i.e. Scandinavians], to the Rus’ … The Chud, the Slovenes, the Krivichi and the Ves said:
“Our land is vast and abundant, but there is no order in it.
Come and reign as princes and have authority over us!”‘
Three brothers came with ‘their kin’ and ‘all the Rus’ in response to this invitation.
Right.
That sort of confirms my assumptions here, doesn’t it?
If the Jews/Phoenicians were settling these areas, or infiltrating them, they would be coming from the West—the direction of Scandinavia— since that is the direction of sailing, via the Baltic Sea.
CIVILIZATION: ANCIENT SPOOKS: Part I – The pun factor in spookery – Library of Rickandria
We are told Rurik was a Varangian, which is another word for Viking.
So, have the Phoenicians also become conflated with the Vikings?
CIVILIZATION: ANCIENT SPOOKS: Part II – Spookish relations – Library of Rickandria
Possibly, since as it turns out the Vikings were not the savages we have been sold.
Their leaders liked to dress in silks.
Hmmm. Silks, you say?
What could it possibly mean!
Wikipedia is careful to keep the word “purple” off its page on the Vikings, but further research confirms the Vikings did like purple, especially the Jarls (the rulers).
You may also want to remind yourself what color the uniforms of the Minnesota Vikings are.
Just another wacky coincidence, right?
For more wacky coincidences, study the map from Wiki:
What color do they use to indicate the Viking’s main settlements there?
And it’s somewhat curious, is it not, that according to the map, the Vikings didn’t bother to sail down the coast of Africa, but they did bother to sail all the way across the Mediterranean.
However, notice that our map makers would have us believe these silly Vikings sailed 3/4’s of the way across the Mediterranean, only to take a hard left after Greece and sail into the Black Sea.
They didn’t bother to keep going and hit the far end of the Mediterranean, where they would have crashed into Phoenicia/Jerusalem.
Could the misdirection be any more ham-handed here?
And we once again have a strange hole.
We are told the Vikings had almost no language before the 11th century, when both Latin and Old Norse arrived.
Before that they only had some old futhark runes, which they hardly ever used.
And you believe that?
It sounds to me like older documents were mopped up and stored to prevent us from making the link I am making here.
Anyway, let’s return to the rulers of Kiev for a moment on our way back to the main line.
The Arpads in Hungary descended from a woman of Kiev named Liubava Dmitrievna Zavidich.
Look closely, because we have another clue hidden in plain sight.
Wiki scrubs her, but Geni has a bit more for us.
Her grandfather was named Zavid Eustace.
I guess you see what they are doing here?
They changed one letter.
It should be David, not Zavid.
Which of course tells us these people are Davidic.
Davidich, not Zavidich.
So let us return now to the Teutonic Knights.
In 1226, even before the establishment of Konigsberg, the Knights were given Chelmno Land by Konrad I of Masovia, of the Premyslid and Priast dynasties.
So, the crypto-Jewish rulers of the area were deeding lands to their noble cousins.
The Knights also had the support of the Holy Roman Emperor, who just happened to have connections to Jerusalem like the rest.
Besides being the King of Germany, Italy, and Sicily, this Frederick II was also the King of Burgundy and the King of Jerusalem.
Frederick had married Yolande of Brienne, which is our big clue here.
She was the granddaughter of Isabella I of Jerusalem, the daughter of Maria Komnene.
Maria Komnene (Greek: Μαρία Κομνηνή; c. 1154 – 1217), Latinized Comnena, was the queen of Jerusalem from 1167 until 1174 as the second wife of King Amalric. She occupied a central position in the Kingdom of Jerusalem for twenty years, earning a reputation for intrigue and ruthlessness.
Again, the Komnenes were Jews from Armenia.
We are told the Teutonic Knights were invited to Chelmno and the region to help convert the Prussians to Christianity, but that is another cover story.
By 1387 everyone was allegedly converted, so the Knights should have closed up shop.
Their work was done.
But, as it turns out, they were just getting started. In fact, at that time they initiated many campaigns against their Christian neighbors in:
- Poland
- Lithuania
- Novgorod
They could do this because they owned a large navy in the Baltic.
Why would Christian crusaders protecting pilgrims to the Holy Land own a large navy in the Baltic?
We find that the Teutonic Knights also had a headquarters in Venice, which was their primary dwelling before 1309.
That confirms my main thesis once more, since Venice was both a trading center and a headquarters for the Jewish merchants.
After 1309, the headquarters of the Knights was transferred to Marienburg:
It was the largest fortress at the time and is still the largest castle in the world based on land area.
It later became the royal residence of the Polish king, a Jagiellon.
But in 1309 it was the project of Siegfried von Feuchtwangen, Grand Master of the Knights. Feuchtwangen could be translated as “spruce sidings”, which might refer to ships.
Which brings up the very good question,
“Who exactly were these knights?”
Not surprisingly, the mainstream doesn’t want to tell us.
An early Grandmaster was Hermann von Salza.
We are told he was a minister of the Landgrave of Thuringia, but this is foggy in the extreme.
We are told these ministers were a “dynasty” of serfs raised to be placed in positions of power.
What?
Since when are serfs of any kind referred to as a dynasty?
And when in history have serfs been groomed for positions of power?
Doesn’t this sound like the same old cover story?
Yep.
Hermann was a friend of Emperor Frederick II, but we are supposed to believe he was just a serf?
He was also a friend of Pope Honorius III, which is of course another clue.
Pope Honorius III (c. 1150[2] – 18 March 1227), born Cencio Savelli, was head of the Catholic Church and ruler of the Papal States from 18 July 1216 to his death. A canon at the Basilica di Santa Maria Maggiore, he came to hold a number of important administrative positions, including that of Camerlengo. In 1197, he became tutor to the young Frederick II. As pope, he worked to promote the Fifth Crusade, which had been planned under his predecessor, Innocent III. Honorius repeatedly exhorted King Andrew II of Hungary and Emperor Frederick II to fulfill their vows to participate. He also gave approval to the recently formed Dominican and Franciscan religious orders.
Honorius was a Savelli, an “aristocratic” family of Rome related to the Counts of Tusculum.
Miles Williams Mathis: ROME – Library of Rickandria
These Counts just happen to descend from Henry V, Holy Roman Emperor, which brings us in a tight circle.
Henry V (German: Heinrich V.; probably 11 August 1081 or 1086 – 23 May 1125) was King of Germany (from 1099 to 1125) and Holy Roman Emperor (from 1111 to 1125), as the fourth and last ruler of the Salian dynasty. He was made co-ruler by his father, Henry IV, in 1098.
Henry was of the Counts of Savoy, linking us again to all the same people.
His daughter married the King of Hungary, Ladislaus, who of course was an Arpad.
Her daughter married John II Komnenos, Emperor of Byzantium.
John II Komnenos or Comnenus (Greek: Ἱωάννης ὁ Κομνηνός, romanized: Iōannēs ho Komnēnos; 13 September 1087 – 8 April 1143) was Byzantine emperor from 1118 to 1143. Also known as “John the Beautiful” or “John the Good” (Greek: Καλοϊωάννης, romanized: Kaloïōannēs), he was the eldest son of Emperor Alexios I Komnenos and Irene Doukaina and the second emperor to rule during the Komnenian restoration of the Byzantine Empire. As he was born to a reigning emperor, he had the status of a porphyrogennetos. John was a pious and dedicated monarch who was determined to undo the damage his empire had suffered following the Battle of Manzikert, half a century earlier.
Those Komnenes seem to be everywhere, don’t they?
So, we have more proof the Popes were from the same families as the Holy Roman Emperors and Kings of France, and that they were all Jewish.
You know who else are everywhere?
The Cohns.
See Hermann von Salza’s Wikipedia page, where, in the footnotes, we find the guy who literally wrote the book on Salza back in the 1930s was Willy Cohn, a German/Jewish historian.
Ask yourself why a Jew would be writing about the Teutonic Knights.
Well, I have previously suggested the Kohens were originally Komnenes, so that may be the answer.
Not all the Grand Masters are sold to us as serfs or vassals.
Gerhard von Malberg is said to have been a margrave, which is like a marquess or marquis.
Fifth Grand Master Konrad von Thuringen was a landgrave, and his maternal grandfather was Duke of Bavaria.
It was his elder brother that had been married to St. Elizabeth, explaining how she came into this.
Which makes it far worse than my guesses above.
It looks to me like Konrad may have conspired in the murder his brother and taken over his lands, which means he is also responsible for the early death of Elizabeth.
So, elevating her to patron saint of these knights couldn’t be more perverse.
For instance, Elizabeth founded a hospital in Marburg and willed it to the Johnniter Order, but her brother-in-law Konrad—with the help of Pope Gregory IX —threw out the will and took the property for himself.
This is rich since the stated goal of the Teutonic Knights was to found hospitals, not to steal them and turn them into banks.
We also find Heinrich von Hohenlohe as 7th Grand Master.
Forty-eight years later another Hohenlohe was 14th Grand Master.
Of course, the Hohenlohe were nobles, later princes, being the lords of Wurttemburg and Bavaria for centuries.
A Hohenlohe of this same family was the brother-in-law of the current Prince Philip of England.
This same Gottfried, 8th Prince of Hohenlohe-Langenburg, was the great-grandson of both Queen Victoria and Tsar Alexander II.
There are about 500 Hohenlohes in the British peerage.
Finally, in the 1500s, we are told the Teutonic Knights dissolved as Poland allied with the HRE.
However, since the Polish king was Sigismund, a Jagiellon, we are being sold the same story as with the Templars.
The Templars weren’t defeated or dissolved, they simply passed their assets to their cousins and retired, with a sexy fake story to cover it.
The same thing happened with the Teutonic Knights, whose holdings passed to the crypto-Jewish Jagiellons.
To cover this, we are told tales to this day, with Napoleon dissolving what was left of the Knights and Hitler outlawing them.
But this is just a continuation of the joke, since we have seen that both Napoleon and Hitler were from the same families.
So, you can already see that what I said is true:
the Teutonic Knights were just Jewish cousins of the crypto-Jewish rulers of Thuringia and other principalities in the area, backed up by Jewish Popes and Jewish Holy Roman Emperors.
And they were all descended from Komnenes and other families of the Near East, via northern European dynasties like the Arpads, Premyslids, and several others.
And what does any of this have to do with Woody Allen?
I know lots of funny guys, and they didn’t get hired by NBC at age 19 or have their own TV shows a few years later.
Given Woody’s real name and given that he felt compelled to legally change it by age 17 (not just take a stage name), my guess is Woody is from the very same families.
But the scrubbing on his ancestry makes that very difficult to prove.
So, let’s start by chasing down some of the Cherrys in the peerage.
There we find a Charlotte Cherry married a Charles Barclay in 1875.
That is amusing in itself.
Those aren’t the Barkleys of the NBA (though there may be a link—I am not saying there isn’t), they are the Barclays of Barclays Bank, linking us to the Quakers and all that.
Charlotte’s grandmother was a Surtees, daughter of a Lewis, daughter of a Villiers, related to the Howards, Earls of Suffolk.
Her brother Ben married a Barrett Lennard, daughter of a Pomeroy and a Graham.
If we can link Woody to this, that would link him to many in Hollywood, including Heather Graham and Warren Beatty, who is a Pomeroy.
HOLLYWOOD – Library of Rickandria
The Barrett Lennards are Baronets and Lords of Dacre, related to the St. Aubyns.
This links us to J. K. Rowling’s publisher, whose mother is Anne St. Aubyn.
Miles Williams Mathis: The Great Harry Potter Hoax – Library of Rickandria
Addendum October 2, 2020:
You know who else it would link him to?
Mia Farrow, who is a Villiers.
Her brother’s middle name is Villiers.
This indicates the usual:
Woody Allen and Mia Farrow are cousins.
Hubert Cherry also married a Barclay in about 1940, then changed his name to Downes for some reason not stated.
Next, we find John William Cherry of the peerage, who married Annie Nall in 1914. Annie Nall?
As in Annie Hall?
Annie’s brother was the 1st, Baronet Nall.
This links us to the Jervis Viscounts, as well as to the Hamiltons and Watsons.
Through the Watsons we link to the Eves.
In 1871, James Cherry married Lady Haworth-Leslie, of the Earls of Rothes.
Miles Williams Mathis: Who are the Rothschilds? – Library of Rickandria
Also related to the Pelhams, Earls of Chichester, and through them to the Franklands, linking us to Ben Franklin.
Miles Williams Mathis: Benjamin Franklin: Premier American (British) Spook – Library of Rickandria
Through the Earls of Rothes we soon link to Campbells and… Stewarts.
So, we have linked Alan Stewart Konigsberg to the Stewarts, but it is a rather long link.
I actually doubt Woody got his middle name this way, but it gives us hope.
James Cherry’s granddaughter Miriam Leslie Owen-Taylor married Col. J. Stuart-Usher in 1947.
Woody was born before that, so he can’t be named that way, but again, it shows the links between the Cherrys and the Stewarts/Stuarts.
It also may link Woody to Owen Wilson, who starred in Midnight in Paris.
A daughter of Sir Benjamin Cherry married a Perceval-Maxwell in about 1930.
But the biggy is Janet Cherry, who married a Leveson-Gower in 1865.
This links us to many Earls and Dukes, including the Stewarts.
Strangely, all these Cherrys, including Janet, are scrubbed.
We have no idea where they came from, though they don’t go back far.
The earliest is one of the Benjamins, who was born in 1671.
Wikitree takes us back a few more generations to 1609, where we find, they were related to Watts and Greens and were from Braughing in Hertfordshire.
So, we assume they were wealthy merchants who married into the peerage with their money.
Another Benjamin Cherry married an Edith Bunker, which is also amusing, and which may be a clue.
Roger RADCLIFFE (± 1240-1326) » Ancestral Trails 2016 » Genealogy Online
As we know, they go to their own ancestries for names.
Some places tell us these Cherrys were laborers, but that turns out to be a lie.
One was four-time mayor of Hertford and left bequests for the poor.
Homes of Family Names in Great Britain – Henry Brougham Guppy – Google Books
Hertford is also a clue, since it is the location of the oldest Quaker meeting house in the world, dating back to 1670.
Miles William Mathis: The SOCIETY of FRIENDS Looks Like Another JEWISH FRONT – Library of Rickandria
Woody’s maternal grandmother was a Hoff, but there are only a few Hoffs in the peerage and no real clues there.
I find it strange that Woody’s paternal line goes back six generations to 1814, but all the women are scrubbed.
Finally, we discover at Ethnicelebs that Woody’s paternal grandmother was a Copplin from Kaliningrad.
This confirms Konigsberg, since they are the same town.
He wasn’t just named for Konigsberg, his line was from there.
There are no Copplins in the peerage, but there are a few Coppins.
I believe the name has been fudged, since the Coppins may fit our research.
See Catherine D’Ewes Coppin, who married Charles Long in 1883.
I saw the Eves while researching the Cherrys.
If the Ewes and Eves are variations of the same name, as I suspect, we may have a link there.
The Ewes link us to:
- the Knollys
- the Willoughbys
- the Wrays
- the Darcys
etc.
But the Ewes themselves are scrubbed, with the 1st Baronet’s parents not given.
Indicating they were merchants who changed their name to Ewes.
Also see Sarah Coppin, who in 1811 married the Viscount George Lambart, son of the Earl of Cavan and Margaret Gould.
Gould is a Jewish name.
CIVILIZATION: WHO ARE THE MODERN JEWS? – Library of Rickandria
So those of you saying a very Jewish guy like Woody can’t be descended from the British peerage just aren’t keeping up.
Yes, he looks and acts quite Jewish, but he has red hair, remember?
So, he is a mix like the rest of us and anything is possible.
I said I wouldn’t mention the other stuff, but I do find it curious that four of Woody’s five children are adopted.
He has no natural children with Soon-Yi, although he married her quite young, as we know.
Soon-Yi Previn (/ˈprɛvɪn/; born Oh Soon-hee, Korean: 오순희; c. October 8, 1970) is the adopted daughter of actress Mia Farrow and musician André Previn. She is married to filmmaker Woody Allen, and the couple have two adopted children. According to Soon-Yi Previn and Allen, they began their relationship in 1991, when Previn was 21, several years after her mother had ended her romantic relationship with Woody Allen. In 1992, their relationship became news.
His only natural child was said to be Ronan Farrow, but he does not share his last name.
Beyond that, Mia recently hinted Ronan was actually Sinatra’s child, which would mean Woody has no natural children.
Ronan does look more like Sinatra than Woody, I have to say, but who knows?
Remind yourself Woody used this theme in Hannah and her Sisters, where his character was infertile.
He did finally get one of the sisters pregnant in the final scene, though maybe that was just wishful thinking.
It is also curious that Ronan is gay and hates Woody, which might confirm he isn’t his natural son.
Ronan seems like a nasty character to me, and his interviews don’t encourage trust in my opinion, but it is almost impossible to tell what is going on there without being closer to the sources.
Just be aware that there are horror stories about Mia as well as Woody, so it is probably not worth picking a side.
You wouldn’t want to be involved with these famous people one way or another, and you should just consider yourself lucky not to have been born into the families.
I will close by admitting that I noticed Woody said Match Point was one of his three best films, so I rewatched it.
I seem to remember trying to watch it before and not being able to get through the first 20 minutes.
I got a bit further this time, mainly on willpower, but still couldn’t make it to the end.
I think I quit the first time after the early scene where Rhys Meyers first meets Johansson at the ping pong table.
Jonathan Rhys Meyers (born Jonathan Michael Francis O’Keeffe; 27 July 1977) is an Irish actor. He is known for his roles in the films Michael Collins (1996), Velvet Goldmine (1998), Titus (1999), Bend It Like Beckham (2002), Alexander (2004), Match Point (2005), Mission: Impossible III (2006) and his television roles as Elvis Presley in the biographical miniseries Elvis (2005), for which he won a Golden Globe Award and earned a Primetime Emmy Award nomination, as King Henry VIII in the historical drama The Tudors (2007–10), which earned him two Golden Globe Award nominations, and in the NBC drama series Dracula (2013–14) as the title character. He also starred as Bishop Heahmund, a character inspired by the Catholic Saint of the same name, in the History Channel television series Vikings.
It was achingly cliché and clunky.
The two have all the chemistry of maple syrup and tuna fish.
Woody apparently told Rhys Meyers to play the role super-gay and super-morose, and the actor hit all his marks.
Johansson isn’t any better, trying to play sexy but failing miserably.
Yes, she has gorgeous lips and killer tits, but that doesn’t make a person sexy by itself.
I have never seen her actually do any acting, and her best role for me was in Girl with a Pearl Earring, where she hardly spoke.
We could just gaze at her lips without having to hear her voice grate like golf cleats slipping on cement.
[She must be a smoker and appears to be working on a Lauren Bacall voice—which I predict she will have before she hits 50.]
It also helped that she was opposite Colin Firth, whose acting made hers seem sparkling by comparison.
Colin Andrew Firth (born 10 September 1960) is an English actor and producer. He is the recipient of several accolades, including an Academy Award, two BAFTA Awards, and a Golden Globe Award, as well as nominations for two Primetime Emmy Awards. In 2011, Firth was appointed a CBE for his services to drama and appeared in Time magazine’s 100 most influential people in the world.
I think he had the same direction Woody gave Rhys Meyers.
So why would Woody say this was one of his best?
Has he never seen it?
It only gets worse after the part where I stopped watching, with lots of unnecessary violence and shallow moralizing.
The only thing I can figure is that he liked making a movie about the filthy rich, filming in posh houses in London and at the Tate Modern and Saatchi Gallery, and so on.
Maybe one part of him yearns to be truly upper-upperclass, like his ancestors and cousins.
But this is another reason I couldn’t stand the film:
his constant nods to Modern Art have gotten more glaring and obtrusive as the years have passed —though they were always sort of there—and though for some this will give him a hip gloss, for me it comes off more like a plastic varnish.
Miles Williams Mathis: The CIA & Art – Library of Rickandria
He could just as easily have filmed at the Tate Britain or the National Gallery, you know, but then he would have had to forego his kickbacks from Charles Saatchi and Nicholas Serota, I guess.
I also begin to find it unnerving that Woody feels compelled to keep making movies about getting away with murder and being lucky instead of good.
Same theme as Crimes and Misdemeanors.
We know his movies are autobiographical. Is he trying to tell us something?
Is anyone unaccounted for?
In short, it isn’t one of Woody’s top three.
Maybe one of his bottom three.
The last watchable movie he did was Deconstructing Harry.
That was almost a return to form.
Diane Keaton (née Hall; born January 5, 1946) is an American actress. She has received various accolades throughout her career spanning over five decades, including an Academy Award, a BAFTA Award, and two Golden Globe Awards, in addition to nominations for two Emmy Awards, and a Tony Award. She was honored with the Film Society of Lincoln Center Gala Tribute in 2007 and an AFI Life Achievement Award in 2017.
But for me the old Diane Keaton movies will always be the best, before he ever got mixed up with Mia Farrow.
Maria de Lourdes Villiers “Mia” Farrow (/məˈriːə di ˈlʊərdz ˈvɪljərz ˈfæroʊ/ mə-REE-ə dee LOORDZ VIL-yərz FARR-oh; born February 9, 1945) is an American actress. She first gained notice for her role as Allison MacKenzie in the television soap opera Peyton Place and gained further recognition for her subsequent short-lived marriage to Frank Sinatra. An early film role, as Rosemary in Roman Polanski’s Rosemary’s Baby (1968), saw her nominated for a BAFTA Award and a Golden Globe Award for Best Actress. She went on to appear in several films throughout the 1970s, such as Follow Me! (1972), The Great Gatsby (1974), and Death on the Nile (1978). Her younger sister is Prudence Farrow.
Keaton had a charm he desperately needed to fill out the female side of his films, and that he has never found since.
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After 1804, the Teutonic Knights were run by the Hapsburgs—which should give you a new take on them as well.
It is now alleged to be a charitable organization, though they admit the order has been involved in excavation and tourism projects in Jerusalem.
They still have a Grand Master.
In other words, they are still spooks hiding behind fronts.
Believe nothing you read about them in the mainstream.