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	Hollywood and Vile Investors Business Daily September 29, 2009 http://www.investors.com/NewsAndAnalysis/Article.aspx?id=507485 Rule Of Law: To Hollywood, a fugitive wanted for sex with an underage girl is "a great artist" pursued by "philistine" authorities. Would they be excusing "Father Roman Polanski" or "Senator Roman Polanski"? Can the popular film industry descend any deeper into the moral cesspool? Consider the great "artistic frontiers" Hollywood has recently crossed. The 2003 film "The Brown Bunny," which premiered at Cannes, graphically shows its leads doing what Bill Clinton and Monica Lewinsky got up to. "Hounddog" in 2007 premiered at Robert Redford's Sundance Festival. A preteen Southern farm girl named Lewellen, played by a 12-year-old actress, is raped, but as Time magazine noted, "More uncomfortable to watch than that short scene ... are the lingering shots throughout the film in which Lewellen gyrates to Elvis music in her underwear while older men and boys watch hungrily." Child actor advocates, such as Alison Arngrim of "Little House on the Prairie" fame and Paul Peterson from "The Donna Reed Show", protested the sexual exploitation of the young actress. But guess what? Roman Polanski trail-blazed ahead of both those films. Moviegoers who shelled out good money to see the 1992 flick "Bitter Moon," starring the director's current wife, were subjected to a character's detailed descriptions of urophilia. That's what you call "a great artist" at work. Hollywood is circling the trailers around Polanski now that he's been nabbed in Switzerland after more than three decades on the run. American movie star Debra Winger, president of the Zurich Film Festival, which was giving Polanski an award, told the press, "Despite the philistine nature of the collusion that has now occurred, we came to honor Roman Polanski as a great artist." Philistine? Polanski pleaded guilty to unlawful sexual intercourse in 1978. His 13-year-old victim says he slipped her a champagne and quaalude cocktail, then raped and sodomized her. Yet mega-producer Harvey Weinstein calls him a "humanist" and is rallying Hollywood. Dozens of movie icons, like Woody Allen and Martin Scorsese, signed a petition demanding Polanski's immediate release. Whoopi Goldberg on ABC claimed, "I know it wasn't 'rape' rape." Washington Post columnist Anne Applebaum's argument was little better: "Polanski's mother died in Auschwitz." Neither artistry nor family tragedy excuses heinous crime. What if Polanski were a nobody? Moreover, what if he were a priest? Or a right-leaning politician? In their depraved defense of this personal and artistic degenerate, the stars of the silver screen continue their fall deeper down the sewer.
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