Woody Allen plays a married man and adoptive father who enjoys unprotected sex with a twenty-something call girl in
Mighty Aphrodite. The film is a brashly comic provocation, a dare disguised as a doodle. Scandal involving Soon-Yi, Mia Farrow and daughter Dylan has made Allen the O.J. Simpson of cinema -- off the hook in court but guilty to much of his audience.
Variety bashed the aging auteur (he'll be 60 on Dec. 1) for kissing his young co-star in
Aphrodite. In the
New York Times, Maureen Dowd