Low-down Polanski is back in the news. Set to receive an award at the Zurich Film Festival, he was arrested for a sex crime involving a 13-year-old girl.
Naturally, his lack of character and moral decency has been well publicized, but the notable fact here is that those credentials are meaningless to Horrywood, which seeks to reward him, anyway. This is reminiscent of the French Minister of Culture presenting a medal to Eastwood at the Cannes Film Festival not so long after his film, High Plains Drifter. in it, raping a troublesome woman was treated as, not only entirely justified, but humorous.
I suppose, though, it is unreasonable to expect their organizations to have standards when so many of the individual units lack them.
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