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[edit] Category:People with absolute pitch?

Having heard Mia Farrow sing in The Last Unicorn (and lived to tell the tale), I can only assume this categorization is meant to be a joke. She's not a bad voice actress, but her singing voice is wincingly painful to endure.

[edit] POV

'Farrow declined the sentimental offer'

[edit] Children

Errm... "...and adopted two children, Soon Yi, Lark Song, and Daisy"??? -- JohnOwens 02:20 Mar 28, 2003 (UTC)

What's more, she married Previn in 1970, they had three children and divorced in 1970. Wow! --KF 01:57 1 Jun 2003 (UTC)
From the current version of the article:"By 1994 Mia Farrow had 14 children, 9 of them adopted. 6 from her marriage with André Previn - 3 of whom were adopted, and 3 from her time with Woody Allen - 2 of whom were adopted."
Even if the mistakes above (March, June) have been corrected, there's still something wrong here. Can anyone answer this simple question: How many children are there who can truthfully say that Mia Farrow is their biological mother? Follow-up questions: What are their names? How old are they? Who are their biological fathers?
I know this is not terribly important, but I find reading confusing information ever so frustrating. KF 00:35, 2 Aug 2003 (UTC)

The problem is one "missing" child, and a tendency to keep renaming children. She has one biological child by Woody Allen: his original name was Satchel O’Sullivan Farrow, and he later used the name Seamus Farrow, she has three children by Andre Previn, a son named Fletcher Farrow Previn, and a pair of twins, Matthew Phineas Previn and Sasha Villiers Previn.

  • Biological children
    • fathered by Andre Previn
      • Matthew Phineas Previn
      • Sascha Villiers Previn
      • Fletcher Previn
    • fathered by Woody Allen
      • Satchel O'Sullivan Farrow, now called Seamus Farrow
  • Adopted children
    • adopted with Andre Previn
      • Soon-Yi Previn
      • Lark Song Previn
      • Summer Song Previn, called "Daisy" Previn
    • adopted with Woody Allen
      • Moses Amadeus Farrow, called Misha Farrow
      • Dylan O'Sullivan Farrow, called Eliza Farrow
      • one additional child, possibly named "Malone" though this is also given as another name for Dylan/Eliza
    • adopted alone
      • Isaiah Farrow
      • Tam Farrow (deceased)
      • Keili-Shea Farrow
      • Gabriel Wilk Farrow

-- I have seen it written that she has 14 children, 3 of whom are adopted with Woody Allen, but have never seen a name of that third child, and I think it possible (since the names of the children keep getting changed) that someone has miscounted and she actually has 13 children, 2 of whom are adopted with Woody Allen... -- Someone else 02:08, 2 Aug 2003 (UTC)

FWIW, this appeared in the Telegraph in 2002:

Tomorrow all of Farrow's children (apart from Soon-Yi) will be there: the twins, Matthew and Sascha, 32, and Fletcher, 30 (all by André Previn) and Seamus, 14 (by Woody Allen). Then there are the adopted children: Malone, 16, who is American; Lark, 28, Daisy, 29, and Frankie-Minh, 10, who are Vietnamese; Moses, 24, who is Korean; Isaiah, 10, and Quincy, eight, who are African Americans; and Thaddeus, 14, who is Indian.

. It may be difficult matching the number of adopted children, but I don't think there's much doubt about the biological ones. -- Someone else

Great. After reading this -- thanks a lot, by the way -- all I'm going to remember is that she has given birth to four children and adopted a bunch of others. I've just decided that the rest is really irrelevant. To end this on a somewhat different note, let's quote Philip Larkin: They ...
KF 03:42, 2 Aug 2003 (UTC)
Well, I love Mia. She has been through hell, and not just from Woody. She is a great example of a loving, caring person. She is brilliant, and beautiful. I envy her for marrying Sinatra, although he was terrible to her. He was beautiful as well, but a "dog". Out of all his wives, Mia rises above the rest. The others were scanks compared to her.
I love Mia and I think we can all learn alot from her about love, compassion and kindness. We need more Mia's in this world to rescue kids.
GUYS SHE DOESNT TAKE CARE OH HER KIDS AT ALL> I"VE BEEN TO HER HOUSE< SHE HAS A NICER PERSON TAKE CARE OF THEM.
Dude, she might have someone HELPING to take care of her children (espeically when doing a film) but I highly doubt she "doesn't take care of them at all." Mia has adopted all these children, given birth to almost a handful of her own, and yet she has NEVER taken care of them? Sure... -- FireflyAngel, 14 March 2005


[edit] Seamus Farrow

Where did someone get the idea that Seamus has a "phobia" of Woody Allen? It seems inappropriate and gossipy since it isn't even backed up by a source. The Woody Allen page repeated the same story (I've changed it too), while the Seamus Farrow page says nothing about it, and in this article Seamus is quoted as saying "I've looked at the facts and come to my own conclusions. I think the wisest thing is not to talk about it. I'm not angry or twisted in any way." I've replaced the "phobia" thing with a less contentious statement based on the above article--please don't put it back unless you can back it up with an equally reliable source. --The Famous Movie Director 09:04, 19 November 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Neither Mia Farrow, nor anyone else, can live in a "Soho Loft in Greenwich Village"

Soho and Greenwich Village are separate neighborhoods. Relgif 00:52, 6 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Domestic partner

I have removed Woody Allen from the "domestic partner" tag in the info box. The word "Domestic" in "domestic partner" means someone that she lived with. Farrow and Allen never lived together, not even one day. — Walloon (talk) 16:51, 28 March 2008 (UTC)