Music legend and Woody Allen's father-in-law Andre Previn is DEAD TO ME!

He had to get off this mery-go-round.

Has Mia made this all about her yet?

He seems to have been a fairly horrible person, he has had five wives. He divorced the first one, shortly after she gave birth to their child. He divorced wife number 2, when she was hospitalized for a mental breakdown. He has said that Soon-Yi, did not exist.

SHE WAS MY FRIEND MY FRIEND MY FRIEND MY FRIEND MY FRIEND MY FRIEND MY FRIEND

That’s a shame. ™

I think the lyrics and other writings of Dory Previn are waiting to be rediscovered.

I’m seeing something cabaret-style, off Bway: ITS ME, DORY!

Is Andrea Marcovicci available?

with Doris Day on 1962's DUET

[quote]Music legend and Woody Allen's father-in-law Andre Previn is DEAD TO ME. Shocked there's no thread.

If you'd reminded people he was married to Mia Farrow we'd be at 100 posts by now,

[quote]Has Mia made this all about her yet?

She's posted some pics on her instagram...and added ditties >

[bold]Ill see you in the Morning beloved Friend of a lifetime. May you rest in glorious symphonies 💔[/bold]

The true biological father of Satchel aka Ronan.

[quote]Has Mia made this all about her yet?

Yes.

[bold]Once upon a time... Andre and me ❤️ #TBT[/bold]

R11, What does TBT mean?

Good looking young couple, but neither of them aged well.

[quote][R11], What does TBT mean?

"TBT stands for Throwback Thursday. It's one of the most widely used acronyms on social media."

Odd that she should use it in this instance.

He and Mia remained friends.

He was an awful father who remained under Mia's thumb even after they divorced. When the whole Allen scandal happened he publicly and permanently denounced Sun Yi and they remained permanently estranged. And with parents like that people have the nerve to call Sun yi ungrateful.

Not really, r13, I see people using TBT for in memoriam posts pretty frequently. She and Previn remained in touch so I'm sure she's genuinely upset.

He said of Mia (paraphrasing): sometimes the marriage doesn't take, but in our case the divorce didn't take. We still call each other every day, wherever we are.

One of the news services noted that he and Mia began their affair when he was married to Dory and she was still married to Frank, but she eventually left Frank to marry Andre (presumably when she was knocked up with the twins). Her story was always that Frank insisted she not film Rosemary's Baby and when she wouldn't drop the film, he served her with divorce papers on set. Somewhere there's a disconnect.

Does TBT stand for turn back time in this instance?

She was also having an affair with Polanski on the set of RB.

God needed another angel. That's the only explanation...

So wait: Mia was married to Sinatra and having affairs with both Polanski and Previn? In any case, the two stories don't jibe: if Sinatra filed for divorce during RB, then Mia wasn't cheating on him with Previn as the news source claimed.

Mia, apparently , was just a whore.

No mention that he wrote the music for the songs in Valley Or The Dolls?

I meant Valley OF The Dolls, sorry.

Kennedy Center Honor recipient André Previn (R) poses with Mia Farrow and their children Matthew (L) and Fletcher (R) during the Kennedy Center Honors 1999

R3 Indeed. In a 2013 Vanity Fair article, Previn said of his adoptive daughter: “She does not exist”.

Well, if that timeline is accurate, Mia wasn't having an affair with Previn while married to Sinatra.

As with Chuck Berry, my immediate reaction was "He was still alive until today?"

Surprisingly deft comic touch

r25 Am I the first person to notice that Matthew Previn looks exactly like Frank Sinatra?

His name's Fletcher and he looks like Previn and Mia.

He was a cute looking kid and appeared in a few Woody Allen films.

He's on the left.

I don't see it, R25.

R30, one of the news reports I saw even referred to him as a "conductor and Morecambe & Wise guest star"! It seems to be the main thing he's remembered for by Brits. I wonder if he would be offended by that, given his ten Grammys and four Oscars, or would find it funny.

I went off Previn when his son said he literally freaked out at him for playing rock or pop music.

What a fucking square and a creep. Andre admitted he'd done it.

[quote][R30], one of the news reports I saw even referred to him as a "conductor and Morecambe & Wise guest star"! It seems to be the main thing he's remembered for by Brits.

They're like that about those two.

I never found them the least bit funny.

Oops, I meant to tag R31, not R25.

He was a Jew, born into Nazi Germany.

One day his father walked by a park that said "No Dogs! No Jews!"

He told his family to pack their bags for a short visit to Paris and they never went back.

r31 I guess I'm not the first after all.

Andre Previn had an affair with the soprano Sylvia McNair, and he was beginning to compose his opera of "Streetcar Named Desire" with her as Blanche. When his wife Anne Sophie Mutter found out, she make it a condition of their staying together that not only was Sylvia McNair not allowed to be in the opera, Previn was not allowed to even be in the same city as McNair. After he dropped the idea of McNair as Blanche, he was still early enough in the writing process to be able to rework the role for Renee Fleming.

R25, I see it.

Previn is a DICK. Or, rather, was.

His daughter was molested by Woody Allen and he disowns HER? Some middle-aged perv takes naked photos of my teenage daughter, my first instinct is to PROTECT her. As any real father would.

He was probably mad she didn’t want to take HIS loads anymore.

Thanks, R13. So my next question is: "What does Throwback Thursday mean?"

[quote]Thanks, [R13]. So my next question is: "What does Throwback Thursday mean?"

Throwback is the modern word for "flashback".

Flashback is a much better word. Why they replaced it I do not know.

^^^ It’s alliteration, dear.

Thanks, R46.

R47, but "Flashback Friday" works fine. What's so special about Thursday?

Allen doesn't have to be an Angel for Mia to be a trainwreck. Sounds like she got around and had trouble separating herself from trainwrecks.

Don't be an ass, r44.

[quote]^^^ It’s alliteration, dear.

Not necessarily - people use the word throwback all the time now. God knows why. It's a stupid word.

Sinatra, Polinski, Previn and Allen? Mia sure had bad taste in men.

Yes and to top it off >

Real glutton for punishment.

The disconnect is in your head, r17. She fillmed Rosemary's Baby in 1967 and 1968; her twins with Previn weren't born until 1974.

No news service told you anything like you describe.

Actually, I did read it, r54, but I subsequently figured out that it couldn't be correct and posted accordingly.

Please go and fuck yourself now. TIA.

You made something up about Previn and pretended it was from a legitimate news service. When called out you got so hurt and defensive you posted "fuck you!" almost immediately.

Please try not to stink this thread up with your invented news stories, like you're so fond of doing on the Mia Farrow threads.

You're stinking up this thread all by yourself, you insufferable pos. That narrative was contained in a Deadline: Hollywood obit yesterday, and I didn't report it as news, but rather as a curiosity.

[quote]The disconnect is in your head, [R17]. She fillmed Rosemary's Baby in 1967 and 1968; her twins with Previn weren't born until 1974.

Mary, the twins were born in early 1970.

[quote]Please try not to stink this thread up with your invented news stories, like you're so fond of doing on the Mia Farrow threads.

They like to shit all over the Mia Farrow threads. They should stick to Andy and people like that.

You're right, it was Fletcher who was born in 1974.

Mia didn't meet Previn until after her famous trip to India, after Sinatra had already filed divorce papers.

He never would have stayed friends with her if she'd cheated on him and gotten pregnant as that person earlier implied.

"That person" didn't imply anything; an obituary did so.

[quote] Ill see you in the Morning beloved Friend of a lifetime.

Does this mean she'll be killing herself tonight? God, I hope so.

Mia's sons Fletcher Previn and Ronan Farrow both look like her father, the director John Farrow.

John Farrow when young.

Andre reportedly had a lot of affairs while married to Dory, who by her own admission was self medicating and asleep through most of the marriage.

Seems that she wasn't happy with people not moving past his marriage with Mia, though. She was over it by 1977, yet people are still bringing it up like it proves Previn was a monster.

[quote]That event, now a mere benchmark in the larger landscape of Dory’s life, has lodged itself in the public mind. And that infuriates her. “I am so bored with the references to André.” she rages, color rising in her face, hands gesticulating furiously. “I wrote one song about my relationship with him—Beware of Young Girls—and ever since every interview refers to it. Look, I write music, I write lyrics and I am a concert performer. I have written two books. What do I have to do to be just my own person, where my biggest credit doesn’t end up that I was the former Mrs. André Previn? It happened eight years ago. There’s no blame, no guilt, no nothing. I don’t know why they continue with it when it’s a boring pot of crap.”

[quote] That event, now a mere benchmark in the larger landscape of Dory’s life, has lodged itself in the public mind. And that infuriates her. “I am so bored with the references to André.” she rages, color rising in her face, hands gesticulating furiously. “I wrote one song about my relationship with him—Beware of Young Girls—and ever since every interview refers to it. Look, I write music, I write lyrics and I am a concert performer. I have written two books. What do I have to do to be just my own person, where my biggest credit doesn’t end up that I was the former Mrs. André Previn? It happened eight years ago. There’s no blame, no guilt, no nothing. I don’t know why they continue with it when it’s a boring pot of crap.”

Why? Because you wrote that incredibly bitter song, that's why. It's the only thing you ever did in your entire life that was memorable.

She's dead, babe. She can't hear you.

r63 r64 Not even close. Fletcher Previn looks like John Farrow. Matthew Previn looks like Frank Sinatra.

Mia said she hardly saw him when they were married.

He parked her in a little house in the country outside London and ran around the world. He was manic.

She left him and then wanted to go back but he had a new GF move into their house pretty pronto.

R64 is right, I hadn't seen a pic of him young.

Mia is bitch.

[quote] [R63] [R64] Not even close. Fletcher Previn looks like John Farrow.

That's what I said at r63.

I was going to say what R31 said. Matthew Previn in that picture looks a lot more like Frank Sinatra than Ronan does, even after all his work and contact lenses.

Can't find a great picture of his twin Sascha but he doesn't seem to look like Frank. I'm ready to believe that Mia bore twins from two fathers (it's happened) and that her little innuendo about Ronan being Frank's son was a trademark displacement.

Frank is my daddy!!! Soon Yi already stole Woody from me, Matthew is NOT going to get Frank!!!

So... you think that Mia had the rare condition of having twins where one was Sinatra's and one was Previn's, and that later her son by Allen had tons of plastic surgery to make himself look like Sinatra's son, too?

Wow.

R52 Did Mia have an onset affair with Casavetes as well? I've often wondered.

Not that he would count as bad taste in my opinion , far from it.

[quote] I'm ready to believe that Mia bore twins from two fathers (it's happened) ....

True, R73. On "The Guiding Light", Blake slept with her husband's brother in the morning and then with her husband in the evening on a day when she was ovulating -- each guy's sperm connected with a separate egg and twins were born 9 months later (and wasn't the doctor who delivered them one of the fathers?). Straight women can be sluts in real life too.

Well, if it could happen on The Guiding Light, it could certainly happen to Mia.

By that line of reasoning, she could also get a rapidly aging clone and travel back through time and go to Amish country.

Young Matthew Previn r25 looked like Frank Sinatra. Older Matthew Previn r40 looks like Frank Sinatra Jr. And fraternal twins don't have to look like each other, even if they have the same father.

If she thought it would be expedient to claim that, r80, I'm sure she would.

[quote]r12 Good looking young couple, but neither of them aged well.

Oh fuck off. Mia Farrow has aged much better than most beautiful women. Partially because she didn't go OVERLY crazy for plastic surgery. And partially because she never went for an artificial style to begin with.

What do you [italic]expect[/italic] someone in their 70s to look like, that's the question.

R83, for starters, I'd expect someone in her 70s to have learned how to comb her hair.

She's aged very well. Especially for someone with her coloring and ethnic background. She would look better with shorter hair.

I love that DL can still fuss up a bitchfest like this

absolutely heaven