So Cokie Roberts is now the arbiter of the conservative position? I musta missed that memo.
Who are some of them?
The country of France, for one.
But the cite had a picture of George Will* on it.
Regards,
Shodan
*Or looked like him at least.
Well, so what? It’s a play, not real life. And if it was taken from a real instance, again so what? It’s still a play. You think the writers of *Dexter * think serial killers are A-OK?
I’m not sure looking to Eve Ensler’s plays to support or contradict her political opinions is any more useful than looking at Polanski’s work (some of which includes rape and is somewhat sympathetic to rape victims) to support or condemn him.
ETA As Grumman points out, this needn’t even turn to a debate about statutory rape or the age of consent.
Her play contains a positive depiction of the alcohol aided rape of a 14 year old child by an adult.
I would also guess that Johnny Cash didn’t believe it was right to shoot a man in Reno just to watch him die.
Based on the way the piece came out, maybe the woman Ensler interviewed did not feel victimized by that encounter. I don’t like Ensler and I’m not a fan of the show, but maybe she depicted the situation as it really was and how the woman involved really felt about it in retrospect.
I agree that the monologue is creepy and that it comes off as a positive depiction of the encounter itself.
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When you said “outside Hollywood” I just took it to mean people outside the entertainment industry, not everyone who physically resides outside Hollywood.
I didn’t know she was conservative in the first place.
So “Hollywood” equals the worldwide entertainment industry? That’s a new one.
According to the WSJ, Harvey Weinsten refered to it as the “so called crime”.
Except that, in Ensler’s case, it’s the “victim” who is arguing that what happened to her was a positive thing. I’m curious, if Ensler is on the hook for reporting this story, how are we to regard the person with whom it originated?
With skepticism.
Ensler would never include a story about a girl who was terrified and disgusted when an adult gave her booze and molested her, unless the adult was a man.
The point is that it’s not members of the American entertainment industry that are supporting Polanski. It now appears that more members of the American entertainment industry have spoken out against Polanski than have spoken in favor of him. In any case the entertainers who have spoken in favor of Polanski are clearly mostly foreigners. They appear to be mostly French, in fact. If I were to guess, I would say that their attitude is “How dare the Americans interfere with a French citizen about something that happened in the U.S. thirty-one years ago?” (AND NOTE THAT I’M NOT CLAIMING THAT I AGREE WITH THEM.) The claim that this protest against the extradiction of Polanski has anything to do with “Hollywood” strikes me as deliberately obscuring what’s going on.
The most powerful names on the list of supporters are Hollywood elite. Many may not be American, but they are names that carry clout in Hollywood as well as the European entertainment scenes.
Yes, if you disregard those who have nothing to do with Hollywood and those who are not “elite,” everyone left is a member of the Hollywood elite. How many is that? How does that compare to the number of members of the Hollywood elite who did not sign the petition?
That’s irrelevant to the argument. Wendell Wagner said that suggesting that this has anything to do with Hollywood is deliberately obscuring what’s going on. I would like to know how a movement that’s being spearheaded in the U.S. by Harvey Weinstein and Martin Scorcese, with aid by Woody Allen and Hollywood darlings Ethan Coen, Darren Aronofsky and Sam Mendes (though the last is not American he’s worked exclusively through Hollywood studios) could not have something to do with Hollywood.