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October 11, 2009
"In defense of Polanski"--??
A screenwriter named Michael Chase Walker has been twittering, commenting, and, yesterday, letter-to-the-editoring, variations on this line:
Artists must by definition redefine their own moral universe, and this can be a terrible, ugly and devastating process. But what they "pay back" to us, what they contribute to society are enduring legacies we would barely fathom in our quotidian lives.
Is this guy for real? It sounds so much like satire. We're supposed to walk away from confessed child rape in exchange for the great art mined from the abhorrent behavior?
Posted by John at October 11, 2009 01:17 PM
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