Hollywood World...
On 11 March 1977, three years after making Chinatown, Roman Polanski, a motion pictures director, was arrested at Jack Nicholson's home for the sexual assault of 13-year-old Samantha Gailey, who was modeling for Polanski during a Vogue magazine photo shoot around the pool. Polanski was indicted on six counts of criminal behavior, including rape. At his arraignment, he pleaded not guilty to all charges. Many executives in Hollywood came to his defense. Gailey's attorney next arranged a plea bargain in which five of the six charges would be dismissed, and Polanski accepted.
At the time of the incident, Nicholson was out of town making a film, but his steady girlfriend, actress Anjelica Huston, had dropped by unannounced to pick up some items. She heard Polanski in the other room say "We'll be right out." Polanski then came out with Gailey and he introduced her to Huston, and they chatted about Nicholson's two large dogs which were sitting nearby. Huston recalled Gailey was wearing platform heels and appeared quite tall.
After a brief conversation, Polanski had packed up his camera gear and Huston saw them drive off in his car. Huston told police the next day, after Polanski was arrested, that she "had witnessed nothing untoward" and never saw them together in the other room. Gailey learned afterwards that Huston had recently broken up with Nicholson, but stopped by to pick up some belongings.
Polanski's attorney told him that "the judge could no longer be trusted..." that the judge's representations were "worthless". Polanski decided not to appear at his sentencing. He told his friend, director Dino de Laurentis, "I've made up my mind. I'm getting out of here." Polanski caught a flight to London on 1 February 1978, just hours before sentencing. As a French citizen, he has been protected from extradition and has lived mostly in France since then. However, since he fled the United States before final sentencing, the charges are still pending.
In 2003, at the Oscar ceremony, Roman Polansky received the "best director" award for his film "The Pianist". The well over-rated actress Meryl Streep, among many others, gave Mr. Polansky a standing ovation, knowing very well, just like the rest of the world, that he was a rapist...
On January 8, 2017, speaking at the Golden Globes cerimony, Ms. Streep said this:
But there was one performance this year that stunned me. It sank its hooks in my heart. Not because it was good; there was nothing good about it. But it was effective and it did its job. It made its intended audience laugh, and show their teeth. It was that moment when the person asking to sit in the most respected seat in our country imitated a disabled reporter. Someone he outranked in privilege, power and the capacity to fight back. It kind of broke my heart when I saw it, and I still can’t get it out of my head, because it wasn’t in a movie. It was real life. And this instinct to humiliate, when it’s modeled by someone in the public platform, by someone powerful, it filters down into everybody’s life, because it kinda gives permission for other people to do the same thing. Disrespect invites disrespect, violence incites violence. And when the powerful use their position to bully others we all lose.
It seems that it is okay for Hollywood "people", which live in a "bubble of their own", support a convicted felon and criticize an elected president whom was not even at office at the time.
There was a time when Hollywood used to depict our country in a very respectful and insightful way, and this was what made America the place to be, among anywhere in the world. The same respect and vision that the newcomers are already fighting to bring back... Today, these actresses, whom think that just because they can spend 75 thousand dollars on a night gown to wear only once, have the right to lecture others, trying to impose their view point, teaching to help each other while living in million dollars mansions, without doing anything about what they preach, talking about man made climate change while flying their private jets, using any opportunity to put forward an agenda for their only benefit, forgetting that America has always had it's greatness out of a respected melting pot of different ideas, that always came from the middle of the country much more than from the coasts, infect Hollywood and, those who would not agree with the imposed "agenda", will have no place, or work there...
That day, at the ceremony, Mrs. Streep was again acting. Her speech, making fun of football and martial arts, a contempt posture towards middle America, was well written and memorized, and she fulled some people, mainly those living by her self-serving standards which, from now on, will think that she has the morals and the right to criticize the president of her country.
...Welcome to Hollywood World...
Copyright 1/2017 Eugene Colin
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