A More Paternal Feeling

Well gee! Yathink? Of course it has a more paternal feeling to it! He could be the chick's GRANDPA!

Woody Allen says his relationship with wife Soon-Yi Previn, which has a 'more paternal feeling,' is 'one of the truly lucky things that happened to me in my life.'

Allen, a two-time Oscar winner, married Previn in 1997. She is the adopted daughter of Andre Previn and Mia Farrow, Allen's former girlfriend.

In 1992, Allen was discovered to be having an affair with Previn, then 22, while he was dating Farrow. He and Previn have two daughters, ages 5 and 6.

'I'm sure there are things that I might have done differently,' he says in an interview in Vanity Fair magazine, on newsstands Nov. 8. 'Probably in retrospect I should have bowed out of that relationship (with Farrow) much earlier than I did.'

But Allen, who will be 70 on Dec. 1, says age hasn't brought wisdom.

'I've gained no wisdom, no insight, no mellowing. I would make all the same mistakes again, today,' he tells the magazine.

Despite the calamitous beginnings of his relationship with Previn, he says, 'It was just completely fortuitous. One of the truly lucky things that happened to me in my life.'

'I don't ever feel that I'm with a hostile or threatening person. It's got a more paternal feeling to it.'

I'm sure he's not with a hostile or threatening person. Seducing children tends to leave them pretty brainwashed. Perverted daughter rapist!