[Senilite] Affaire Polanski : Gore Vidal a tout compris

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>     Q.: In September, director Roman Polanski was arrested in Switzerland
> for leaving the U.S. in 1978 before being sentenced to prison for raping a
> 13-year-old girl at Jack Nicholson's house in Hollywood. During the time
> of the original incident, you were working in the industry, and you and
> Polanski had a common friend in theater critic and producer Kenneth Tynan.
> So what's your take on Polanski, this many years later?
>
>     A. I really don't give a fuck. Look, am I going to sit and weep every
> time a young hooker feels as though she's been taken advantage of?
>
>     Q.: I've certainly never heard that take on the story before.
>
>     A.: First, I was in the middle of all that. Back then, we all were.
> Everybody knew everybody else. There was a totally different story at the
> time that doesn't resemble anything that we're now being told.
>
>     Q.: What do you mean?
>
>     A.: The media can't get anything straight. Plus, there's usually an
> anti-Semitic and anti-fag thing going on with the press - lots of crazy
> things. The idea that this girl was in her communion dress, a little angel
> all in white, being raped by this awful Jew, Polacko - that's what people
> were calling him - well, the story is totally different now from what it
> was then.
>
>     Q.: [...] Polanski was condemned even before he pled guilty to raping
> a girl.
>
>     A.: Well, believe it or not, anti-Semitism is very strong out here,
> even though this is a Jewish business. L.B. Mayer was the worst
> anti-Semite of all.
>
>     Q.: But he was Jewish.
>
>     A.: Well, Mayer's view was, "The public will turn on all of us if they
> know that one of us has done anything."
>
>     Q.: You think anti-Semitism is motivating the prosecution of Polanski?
>
>     A.: Anti-Semitism got poor Polanski. He was also a foreigner. He did
> not subscribe to American values in the least. To [his persecutors], that
> seemed vicious and unnatural.
>
>     Q.: What are "American values"?
>
>     A.: Lying and cheating. There's nothing better.
>
>     Q.: So you're saying that a non-Jewish director wouldn't have to worry
> about getting caught up in a sex crime scandal? Such a thing wouldn't be
> an issue for Martin Scorsese?
>
>     A.: Well, he's an absolutely sexless director. Can you think of a sex
> scene that he ever shot?
>
>     Q.: Errol Flynn stood trial for raping underage girls in 1943, and was
> acquitted. Was he treated differently than Roman Polanski?
>
>     A.: Everybody liked Errol Flynn.
>
>     Q.: Women threw their underwear at him.
>
>     A.: Well, he was clean-limbed. You couldn't find a single hair on
> those legs of his. So he's another golden virgin.

http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200910u/gore-vidal#at

Besoin de traduire ? En gros, l'"icône intellectuelle et
littéraire"
américaine nous explique qu'il "s'en fiche", qu'il ne va pas
"pleurer chaque
fois qu'une jeune pute s'imagine qu'on a abusé d'elle", que le seul crime de
Polanski c'est son "échec à mentir et tromper", et que de toute
façon "la
presse et les juges sont antisémites et xénophobes" (mais moins quand
même
que Louis B. Mayer, qui était "le pire antisémite de tous").

Alors là... On en a lu des bêtises dans cette affaire (y compris de la part
de gens que j'aime bien, comme Causeur ou Finkielkraut) mais là... J'en
reste sans voix... Champion du monde, Gore Vidal...


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p.s.: et pourquoi pas un débat à propos du 11 septembre sur la
télé publique
française avec Mathieu Kassovitz et Jean-Marie Bigard tant qu'on y est !?
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