After 11 Years, Woody And Mia Are Throwing In Th

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They made an odd couple, to be sure: tenacious live-aparts who used to wave towels at each other from their respective homes on opposite sides of Central Park. Now, after 11 years as serious soul mates, Woody Allen and Mia Farrow are instead brandishing court papers. Reportedly calling her an unfit mother, the director has sued the star of his professional and private lives for custody of three of her 11 children: Woody's biological son Satchel, 4 1/2, and two kids they adopted-daughter Dylan, 7, and son Moses, 14, who has cerebral palsy.

There had been occasional blips of disharmony on the screen of their relationship. Woody had worried in 1985 when Mia decided to adopt an eighth child-and a few months ago, he told syndicated columnist Liz Smith that he opposed her intent to adopt two more, both with disabilities. But what finally brought the shadows and fog to their Manhattan interiors? Was it one too many jars of strained bananas? Another woman? The prospect of September? Did he threaten to take the money and run? Or was she the one guilty of crimes and misdemeanors? Whatever transformed their midsummer night's sex comedy into stardust memories, Woody and Mia now clearly won't end up like the couples in their next movie, opening this fall: "Husbands and Wives."

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