hollywood on the academy award winner's life and career on "good morning america" here on abc7. >>> woody alan is calling allegations of child molestation untrue and disgraceful. the publicist says alan has read the letter published on-line by the "new york times." she says she was sexually abused by her adoptive father in an attic when she was seven years old. the claim dates back to alan's relationship with mia farrow. the 78-year-old director always maintained his innocence. >>> the reverend al sharpton talked about doing good work at a church. the civil rights leader spoke at the church and said it is hard to eulogize people who only do things for themselves. >> some go from the mall to the cemetery. and there is nothing we can talk about. all they did was for them. if all you do in life is for you, when you go, there is nobody there but you. >> in the afternoon sharpton celebrated the opening of the oakland branch of action network. >>> a new parking fee goes into effect at the larkspur ferry terminal. a mobile application system will be used to collect the $2 fee. customers can play on-l

hollywood on the academy award winner's life and career on "good morning america" here on abc7. >>> woody alan is calling allegations of child molestation untrue and disgraceful. the publicist says alan has read the letter published on-line by the "new york times." she says she was sexually abused by her adoptive father in an attic when she was seven years old. the claim dates back to alan's relationship with mia farrow. the 78-year-old director always maintained his innocence. >>> the reverend al sharpton talked about doing good work at a church. the civil rights leader spoke at the church and said it is hard to eulogize people who only do things for themselves. >> some go from the mall to the cemetery. and there is nothing we can talk about. all they did was for them. if all you do in life is for you, when you go, there is nobody there but you. >> in the afternoon sharpton celebrated the opening of the oakland branch of action network. >>> a new parking fee goes into effect at the larkspur ferry terminal. a mobile application system will be used to collect the $2 fee. customers can play on-l

daughter when she was a child, calling into question whether he stands a chance of winning. >> woody alanhe fact that he is writing about his view of the controversy was telling. that means it suggests it could have an impact. >> author in screen writer says it. >> there's nothing incompatible with someone being a great writer and director and a terrible human being. >> as a child this man was molested by a family friend. when roman pollans ki convicted in 1977 of raping a 13-year-old girl asked him to write the screen play for his 1994 film "death in the maiden", he didn't hesitate. >> actors, writers, producers, directors are not cops. that's not my role. the only concern i have is quality, and what the work was saying. >> pollans ki won an oscar for "the pianist." outspoken views affect artists. consider charlie chaplain, his politics leaning to the west. despite being an important artist, he never won on oscar during the height of his career. >> people were black listed. they couldn't get work, they had to write under pen names. >> they paid a huge price. >> chaplain was honoured with

some critics and woody allen have faulted the "times." alan his say, published his rebuttal and blaming former girlfriend mia farrow for manipulating dylan. i love her, he writes of his daughter, hope one day she will grasp how she has been cheated out of having a loving father and exploited by a mother more interested in her own festering anger than her daughter's well being. dylan fired back, this time in the "hollywood reporter" writing this, once again, woody allen is attacking me and my family in an effort to discredit and silence me. but nothing he says or writes can change the truth. here's the question i will like to explore this morning should "the new york times" have publish eed dylan's charges without a response from alan. "the los angeles times" passed on publishing dylan's letter. joining me two reporters dylan byers for politico and robin abcarian a columnist for the longs times. robin you wrote a column where you said nick, this spectacle is on you. you feel the times did not exercise proper journalistic judgment here. spell it

she goes on to write, woody allen is a living testament to the way our society fails the survivors of sexual assault and abuse. alan'sawyer reportedly responding, it is tragic after 20 years a story engineered by a vengeful lover resurfaces after it was fully vetted and rejected by independent authorities. >> deb feyerick reported. >> i want to bring in attorney and legal analyst, lisa bloom, who has extensive experience defending and representing child sex abuse victims. start with the credibility factor. what makes dylan stand out? >> woody allen would be presumed innocent in a court of law. i think she is very credible. she is not trying to sell anything, not a book, not a movie. she has not sued him. there is no case pending. all the details are consistent with what we know about sexual assault. his putting his thumb in her mouth, his head on her naked lap. that is consistent with what we know. to say that a 7-year-old fan s fantasized about sex with her father. that's completely wrong. 7-year-olds do not fantasize about sex with their father. to a 7-year-old, sex is repulsive and disgusting. this is a woman that

woody allen defend themselves this week against claims that he molested his adopted daughter dylan farrow 21 years ago. alan'srried it comes nearly a week after the times released an open letter from the which she claimed allen sexually molested her. dylan farrow didn't specify his actions even though she's doing that now the described other abusive behavior. allen wrote of the times. of course i did not molest. she is calling it a rash of lies. this is a very interesting case. a sad case of tearing the family of parts to use separate the arts from the artist's comments very difficult for a lot of people to do this. yet to separate art from the artists know if you have not seen blue jazzman i'm not going to tell you not to see it because of what happened but there is so much commotion about this. it's bringing in for a lot of people their own problems with this kind of abuse. so god bless everybody and it will be interesting as it continues on. this was a week of a justin p. burke alienating more fans. and having others wonder where he has acted these days. the 19 year-old sister-singer with says that they sm