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[rivka]

I've never seen a Roman Polanski movie.

And, you know, I'm glad. Because if there's some sort of magic crack in his films that strips people of any vestige of common decency, then I'm happy to have done without.

Kate Harding sums it up perfectly, as usual.

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[naomikritzer]

I saw somewhere a fabulously apropos Orwell quote (in a longer essay critiquing a different popular artist): "If Shakespeare returned to the earth to-morrow, and if it were found that his favourite recreation was raping little girls in railway carriages, we should not tell him to go ahead with it on the ground that he might write another KING LEAR."

The person commenting noted that clearly, Orwell was wrong; people like Whoopi Goldberg, Woody Allen, and Debra Winger would be LINING UP to say that raping little girls in railway carriages wasn't the rape sort of rape, etc.

I have been really repulsed and infuriated by the number of people who have gone public with their defenses of Polanski. It is disgusting.

[(Anonymous)]

Maybe we need a special prison where specially valuable criminals could be shut up with pen and paper and nothing to do but write more.

[ailbhe]

We could call it the Reading And Writing Gaol