I was heartbroken by a quote from Whoopi Goldberg saying he should be forgiven. I know people aren't their roles, but she played Celie in The COlor Purple for gosh sakes.
I may be a bit irrational about the whole thing, because my cousin was raped and sodomized from the time she was 12 until she was 16 by her own father, and when he told her she was "too old" and he would have to move on to her sister she told my mom. There was a lot of court battle/time, but he got a very light sentance and also used to call and tghreatgen my mother (she was a social worker so she was obligated to report, although I am sure she would have anyway).
I knew about Woody Allen and I just shook my head. Of *course* he would support Polanski (I have a very low opinion of Allen, btw). I did not know about the others, though.
Wow.
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I was heartbroken by a quote from Whoopi Goldberg saying he should be forgiven.
That and differentiating between "rape" and "rape-rape."
Culture of Rape? You're soaking in it.
They know him and don't want to think one of "theirs" could do anything perverse. Nobody does, but that's the thing, isn't it? Dude, I love "Chinatown" too, but that "free pass" thing? Is supposed to be a metaphor, full stop. It's supposed to "forgive" him "Goonies 3" or a twenty-year-old model girlfriend, not real crimes.
I understand that, I suppose, but I would hope I'd never sign on for such a thing. WTF is that? The thin fuchsia line?OTOH, if somebody argued that "Chinatown" is no longer great because its director is a "baby-raper", I'd be right there with Cuaron et al.
I dare them to ask David Simon for a signature on that...the servers might be down for a while while their ears stop ringing.
Yeah, I am sure there are those who have not even read the girl's testimony and those who would say we are "only" getting her side of the story. I know, given the atmosphere of the '70s and the fact that he had just gone through the horrific murder of his pregnant wife, I was inclined to think it was not a terrible crime. I recall getting the impression that they were both high and that he thought she was of age and that her mom pimped her out. But that isn't what happened at all--what happened was rape.
I was heartbroken by a quote from Whoopi Goldberg saying he should be forgiven.
That and differentiating between "rape" and "rape-rape."
If what happened is only "rape," I'm terrified of Whoopi's definition of "rape-rape."
Culture of Rape? You're soaking in it.
Truer words were never spoken.
