Spike Lee has 'deeply' apologized for supporting 'friend' Woody Allen in a radio interview. In the chat, Lee pushed back at an interviewer's suggestion that Allen could effectively be 'cancelled' by the MeToo movement.
, the publisher of "Catch and Kill," a book by Allen's estranged son Ronan Farrow, about his Pulitzer Prize-winning reporting on sexual assault by powerful men such as film producer Harvey Weinstein and former"Today" host Matt Lauer.
Farrow threatened to leave the publishing house, writing that, "Hachette, my publisher, acquired Woody Allen’s memoir after other major publishers refused to do so and concealed the decision from me and its own employees while we were working on"Catch and Kill" – a book about how powerful men, including Woody Allen, avoid accountability for sexual abuse. I’ve also told Hachette that a publisher that would conduct itself in this way is one I can’t work with in good conscience.
After the publishing house dropped Allen's memoir, Farrow tweeted that he was"grateful to all the Hachette employees who spoke up and to the company for listening."
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