Woody Allen is not so stupid as to waste his time by giving this idiotic 'letter' free publicity. Any 'authenticity' is to be established by the NY Times or objective expertise; instead the NY Times *refuses* to disclose the source/document. It's VERY clear that 17 yo 'Tracy' is based on 'Stacey'.
Woody Allen’s obsession with young girls is a bit more persistent than he likes to admit, as is evident in the "Woody Papers" at Princeton. "Allen's work is flatly boorish. Running through all of the boxes is an insistent, vivid obsession with young women and girls." Epstein was well aware of that.
Allen spent a lifetime writing & directing 50 movies in the course of 60 years. They include lots of romances with all kinds of women, young and (mostly) older. There are ZERO 'young girls' in those 50 movies. There's ONE above-age teenager in 50 movies. Maybe YOU are 'obsessed with young girls'?
The picture from Mic illustrates the article’s point, "It’s clear that this theme of older men getting involved with younger women is a preoccupation for the 81-year-old director."
Only *one*, above-age teenager in 50 movies, that include literally *hundreds* of female actresses & love-interests. Their average age is 33,5. 80% is between 25 and 55. And you blindly believe 'Woody Allen is preoccupied with getting involved with "younger women"'? It is an absurd claim, sorry.
Indeed, "running through all of the boxes is an insistent, vivid obsession with young women & girls"; and that is apparently what Richard Morgan did. The NYT readership did not like the product of Morgan's obsession with young women and girls. In fact, they called it 'dishonest' and explained why.
