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leading lady was Diane Keaton, whom he cast in his Broadway show, Play it Again, Sam , and true to form, the couple became romantically involved. However, this time Allen did not marry his leading lady, although he always referred to her as ‘the love of his life’. In 1977, the movie Annie Hall , which told of their romance, became a huge hit. Not long afterwards, he and Keaton split up but, like Lasser, she continued to star in his movies.
    His next leading lady was Mia Farrow, who starred in many of the movies he made during the 1980s and early 1990s. When he met her, Farrow had six children, three biological children from her previous marriage with composer Andre Previn, and three children she had adopted with Previn, including a young girl called Soon-Yi. Soon-Yi had been found on the streets of Korea and was taken to an orphanage. It was here that she was introduced to her adoptive parents, Farrow and Previn, and taken to the United States.
     
    N UDE PHOTOS
     
    Allen and Farrow never set up home together, but they had a long, close relationship lasting over a decade. During this time, they had a son, whom they named Satchel but who later changed his name to Ronan. They also adopted another son and daughter, although Allen did not formally adopt Farrow’s other children. This unconventional domestic arrangement continued until Farrow discovered some nude photographs that Allen had taken of her daughter Soon-Yi. Outraged, she sued Allen for divorce, and a huge scandal broke when the media and the public learned what was going on.
    When the couple split, Allen openly continued his relationship with Soon-Yi, despite the many negative comments from the press. Farrow, who was reported to be devastated by the situation, sued Allen for custody of their children and in the process accused Allen of molesting their adopted daughter Dylan (later known as Eliza and then Malone) when she was only seven years old. The charges were later dropped, but the scandal had shocked the world. In the end the judge awarded Farrow custody of the children, and commented that Allen’s relationship with Soon-Yi was ‘inappropriate’. Allen and Soon-Yi went on to marry in 1997 and later adopted two daughters themselves, whom they named Bechet and Manzie after two of Allen’s favourite jazz musicians.

Rock Hudson

     
    Rock Hudson was one of the iconic Hollywood stars, a man who, with his good looks and well-built physique, epitomized red-blooded American masculinity during the 1950s and 1960s. Consequently, it was a tremendous shock to the nation when he became one of the first celebrities to die from AIDS, and his life as a homosexual was revealed. For some, it was as though the American Dream itself had died, and the reality of the modern world, with all its complexities and confusions, had taken its place.
     
    H ANDSOME NEW STAR
     
    Leroy Harold Scherer Jr was born in Winnetka, Illinois. His father Roy was a car mechanic and his mother Katherine a telephone operator. During the Depression era of the 1930s, his father left home, never to return, and Katherine and her children were left to fend for themselves. When his mother remarried, Leroy took his new stepfather’s name and adapted well to school life, graduating from high school and going on to join the navy in World War II. During his time in the war, Leroy worked as an aircraft mechanic, and also served in the Philippines. On his return Leroy decided to pursue a career as an actor, but failed to get into drama school and started to earn a living by truck driving. However, in 1948 his luck changed when he met a talent scout, Henry Willson, who was impressed by his good looks and found him work in the movies. Willson also made up a new, suitably masculine, name for his rising star: Rock, taken from the Rock of Gibraltar, and Hudson, taken from the Hudson River.
    Hudson’s first screen role was in a film called Fighter Squadron , made in 1948. Legend has it that Hudson had so