This I can hardly believe. Now I know for sure there is something completely sordid about people in the film world. The following are people that I have admired. They are also people who think that a guy who drugs and sodomises a 13-year-old girl should go unpunished. The girl wants to drop the case and forgive him because the case makes her life hell. But this isn't justice. It's the reason why rape victims can't bear to go to court and relive everything again. For once I am quite speechless, but here they are, and I now I would be loathe to shake any of them by the hand:
Woody Allen
Pedro Almodovar
Monica Bellucci
Peter Fonda
Robert Harris
David Lynch
Salman Rushdie
Martin Scorsese
Tilda Swinton
Wim Wenders
A day later I find that I am not alone. Oh hell Sam Mendes and Penelope Cruz.
See http://thenewagenda.net/2009/09/30/boycott-please-forward/
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/bernardhenri-levy/artist-rally-behind-polan_b_302371.html
http://www.inthesetimes.com/article/the_lies_of_bernard_henri_leacutevy/
And a week later it really is heartening to hear what people think about Robert Harris on Paterico's Pontifications:
http://patterico.com/2009/09/29/robert-harris-polanski-did-it-but-its-your-fault/#comments
