UPDATE 1: an open letter to an open letter
Dear the following people:
Fatih Akin, Stephane Allagnon, Woody Allen, Pedro Almodovar, Wes Anderson, Jean-Jacques Annaud, Alexandre Arcady, Fanny Ardant, Asia Argento, Darren Aronofsky, Olivier Assayas, Alexander Astruc, Gabriel Auer, Luc Barnier , Christophe Barratier, Xavier Beauvois , Liria Begeja, Gilles Behat, Jean-Jacques Beineix, Marco Bellochio, Monica Bellucci, Djamel Bennecib, Giuseppe Bertolucci , Patrick Bouchitey, Paul Boujenah, Jacques Bral, Patrick Braoudé, André Buytaers, Christian Carion, Henning Carlsen, Jean-michel Carre, Mathieu Celary, Patrice Chéreau, Elie Chouraqui, Souleymane Cissé, Alain Corneau, Jérôme Cornuau, Miguel Courtois, Dominique Crevecoeur, Alfonso Cuaron, Luc et Jean-Pierre Dardenne, Jonathan Demme, Alexandre Desplat, Rosalinde et Michel Deville, Georges Dybman, Jacques Fansten, Joël Farges, Gianluca Farinelli (Cinémathèque de de Bologne), Etienne Faure, Michel Ferry, Scott Foundas, Stephen Frears, Thierry Frémaux, Sam Gabarski, René Gainville, Tony Gatlif, Costa Gavras, Jean-Marc Ghanassia, Terry Gilliam, Christian Gion, Marc Guidoni, Buck Henry, David Heyman, Laurent Heynemann, Robert Hossein, Jean-Loup Hubert, Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu, Gilles Jacob, Just Jaeckin, Alain Jessua, Pierre Jolivet, Kent Jones (World Cinema Foundation), Roger Kahane, Nelly Kaplan, Wong Kar Waï, Ladislas Kijno, Harmony Korinne, Jan Kounen, Diane Kurys, Emir Kusturica, John Landis, Claude Lanzmann, André Larquié, Vinciane Lecocq, Patrice Leconte, Claude Lelouch, Gérard Lenne, David Lynch, Michael Mann, François Margolin, Jean-PierreMarois, Tonie Marshall, Mario Martone, Nicolas Mauvernay, Radu Mihaileanu, Claude Miller, Mario Monicelli, Jeanne Moreau, Sandra Nicolier, Michel Ocelot, Alexander Payne, Richard Pena (Directeur Festival de NY), Michele Placido, Philippe Radault, Jean-Paul Rappeneau, Raphael Rebibo, Yasmina Reza, Jacques Richard, Laurence Roulet, Walter Salles, Jean-Paul Salomé, Marc Sandberg, Jerry Schatzberg, Julian Schnabel, Barbet Schroeder, Ettore Scola, Martin Scorsese, Charlotte Silvera, Abderrahmane Sissako, Paolo Sorrentino, Guillaume Stirn, Tilda Swinton, Jean-Charles Tacchella, Radovan Tadic, Danis Tanovic, Bertrand Tavernier, Cécile Telerman, Alain Terzian, Pascal Thomas, Giuseppe Tornatore, Serge Toubiana, Nadine Trintignant, Tom Tykwer, Alexandre Tylski, Betrand Van Effenterre, Wim Wenders, Isabelle Adjani, Antoine Aronin, Paul Auster, Morgane Beauverger, Candice Belaisch-Goldchmit, Yamina Benguigui, Pascal Bruckner, Jessika Cohen, Philippe Corbé, Jean-Paul Dayan, Katarina De Meulder, Arielle Dombasle, Nathalie Faucheux, Corinne Figuet, Pierre Forciniti, Louis Garrel, Albert Gauvin, Johanna Gozlan, Davide Homitsu Riboli, Taylor Hackford, Isabelle Huppert, Neil Jordan, Thierry Kamami, Milan Kundera, Gaelle Lancien, Claude Lanzmann, Bernard-Henri Lévy, Sam Mendes, Camille Meyer, Patrick Mimouni, Yann Moix, Mike Nichols, Sandra Nicolier, Marie Nieves, Perez Neël, Salman Rushdie, Carine Sarna, Ysabelle Saura Del Pan, William Shawcross, Olivier Soares Barbosa, Steven Soderbergh, Nil Symchowicz, Danièle Thompson, Eugenia Varela Navarro, Diane von Furstenberg, Margaret Walker, Elsa Zylberstein,
and the following organizations:
- l'Académie des César
- l’API (Association des producteurs Indépendants)
- l'ARP
- l’ARRF - Association des Réalisateurs et réalisatrices de Films - Belgique
- la Cinémathèque Française
- le Festival de Cannes
- le Fonds Culturel Franco Américain
- le Groupe 25 images
- la SACD
- le SPI
- l'Union des producteurs de films
- L’équipe du dernier film de Roman Polanski « Ghost »
- Pathé
- Scott Foundas (LA Weekly):
*ahem*
bearing in mind that some of you are some of my favorite actors, directors, and moviemakers, I still have to let you know, in case you didn't:
Roman Polanski DRUGGED AND RAPED AND SODOMIZED A THIRTEEN YEAR OLD GIRL AND THEN RAN TO EUROPE WHEN HE THOUGHT HE MIGHT HAVE TO ACTALLY SERVE JAIL TIME FOR IT! HE HID IN FRANCE FOR THIRTY YEARS LIVING THE LIFE OF REILLY! HE IS NOT JEAN-GODDAMN-FUCKING-VALJEAN, HE IS AN ADMITTED RAPIST AND A PEDOPHILE AND NO AMOUNT OF GOOD MOVIE CREDITS WILL EVER CHANGE THAT!
(ETA: Let me put it this way, he did not steal a loaf of bread, he grabbed a little girl in the woods and "went to the well" with her, ifyouknowwhatImean, REPEATEDLY, AGAINST HER WILL. Savvy?)
WHAT THE FUCK IS WRONG WITH YOU ASSHATS?
And in conclusion:
UNTIL EACH OF YOU SIGNERS OF THAT PETITION TO RELEASE ROMAN POLANSKI FROM CUSTODY AGREE TO PUT YOUR OWN THIRTEEN-YEAR-OLD DAUGHTERS NAKED IN A HOTTUB WITH A RANDOM ADULT MAN WHO WORKS IN THE MOVIE INDUSTRY, GIVE HER HALF A QUAALUDE AND A GLASS OF CHAMPAGNE, AND THEN TURN YOUR BACK AND WALK AWAY,
FUCK YOU
Sincerely,
Arlene C. Harris
PS: and a special mini FUCK YOU to Whoopi Goldberg. Although you didn't sign, you defended the fucktard. PROTIP: There's no such thing as "RAPE-rape," there is no qualifier. STFU.
PPS: Kevin Smith and BIll Maher: THANK YOU. Sometimes you're hard to like... but not today.
UPDATE 1: there's a list of people who are condemning him or signing antipetition. It's listed here:
http://chrismm.livejournal.com/578016.html
And add to the first list above, the Loser Walk of Shame: Penelope Cruz and Natalie Portman. And...
Harrison Ford
No I am not making this up. Harrison... How COULD you?
Fatih Akin, Stephane Allagnon, Woody Allen, Pedro Almodovar, Wes Anderson, Jean-Jacques Annaud, Alexandre Arcady, Fanny Ardant, Asia Argento, Darren Aronofsky, Olivier Assayas, Alexander Astruc, Gabriel Auer, Luc Barnier , Christophe Barratier, Xavier Beauvois , Liria Begeja, Gilles Behat, Jean-Jacques Beineix, Marco Bellochio, Monica Bellucci, Djamel Bennecib, Giuseppe Bertolucci , Patrick Bouchitey, Paul Boujenah, Jacques Bral, Patrick Braoudé, André Buytaers, Christian Carion, Henning Carlsen, Jean-michel Carre, Mathieu Celary, Patrice Chéreau, Elie Chouraqui, Souleymane Cissé, Alain Corneau, Jérôme Cornuau, Miguel Courtois, Dominique Crevecoeur, Alfonso Cuaron, Luc et Jean-Pierre Dardenne, Jonathan Demme, Alexandre Desplat, Rosalinde et Michel Deville, Georges Dybman, Jacques Fansten, Joël Farges, Gianluca Farinelli (Cinémathèque de de Bologne), Etienne Faure, Michel Ferry, Scott Foundas, Stephen Frears, Thierry Frémaux, Sam Gabarski, René Gainville, Tony Gatlif, Costa Gavras, Jean-Marc Ghanassia, Terry Gilliam, Christian Gion, Marc Guidoni, Buck Henry, David Heyman, Laurent Heynemann, Robert Hossein, Jean-Loup Hubert, Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu, Gilles Jacob, Just Jaeckin, Alain Jessua, Pierre Jolivet, Kent Jones (World Cinema Foundation), Roger Kahane, Nelly Kaplan, Wong Kar Waï, Ladislas Kijno, Harmony Korinne, Jan Kounen, Diane Kurys, Emir Kusturica, John Landis, Claude Lanzmann, André Larquié, Vinciane Lecocq, Patrice Leconte, Claude Lelouch, Gérard Lenne, David Lynch, Michael Mann, François Margolin, Jean-PierreMarois, Tonie Marshall, Mario Martone, Nicolas Mauvernay, Radu Mihaileanu, Claude Miller, Mario Monicelli, Jeanne Moreau, Sandra Nicolier, Michel Ocelot, Alexander Payne, Richard Pena (Directeur Festival de NY), Michele Placido, Philippe Radault, Jean-Paul Rappeneau, Raphael Rebibo, Yasmina Reza, Jacques Richard, Laurence Roulet, Walter Salles, Jean-Paul Salomé, Marc Sandberg, Jerry Schatzberg, Julian Schnabel, Barbet Schroeder, Ettore Scola, Martin Scorsese, Charlotte Silvera, Abderrahmane Sissako, Paolo Sorrentino, Guillaume Stirn, Tilda Swinton, Jean-Charles Tacchella, Radovan Tadic, Danis Tanovic, Bertrand Tavernier, Cécile Telerman, Alain Terzian, Pascal Thomas, Giuseppe Tornatore, Serge Toubiana, Nadine Trintignant, Tom Tykwer, Alexandre Tylski, Betrand Van Effenterre, Wim Wenders, Isabelle Adjani, Antoine Aronin, Paul Auster, Morgane Beauverger, Candice Belaisch-Goldchmit, Yamina Benguigui, Pascal Bruckner, Jessika Cohen, Philippe Corbé, Jean-Paul Dayan, Katarina De Meulder, Arielle Dombasle, Nathalie Faucheux, Corinne Figuet, Pierre Forciniti, Louis Garrel, Albert Gauvin, Johanna Gozlan, Davide Homitsu Riboli, Taylor Hackford, Isabelle Huppert, Neil Jordan, Thierry Kamami, Milan Kundera, Gaelle Lancien, Claude Lanzmann, Bernard-Henri Lévy, Sam Mendes, Camille Meyer, Patrick Mimouni, Yann Moix, Mike Nichols, Sandra Nicolier, Marie Nieves, Perez Neël, Salman Rushdie, Carine Sarna, Ysabelle Saura Del Pan, William Shawcross, Olivier Soares Barbosa, Steven Soderbergh, Nil Symchowicz, Danièle Thompson, Eugenia Varela Navarro, Diane von Furstenberg, Margaret Walker, Elsa Zylberstein,
and the following organizations:
- l'Académie des César
- l’API (Association des producteurs Indépendants)
- l'ARP
- l’ARRF - Association des Réalisateurs et réalisatrices de Films - Belgique
- la Cinémathèque Française
- le Festival de Cannes
- le Fonds Culturel Franco Américain
- le Groupe 25 images
- la SACD
- le SPI
- l'Union des producteurs de films
- L’équipe du dernier film de Roman Polanski « Ghost »
- Pathé
- Scott Foundas (LA Weekly):
*ahem*
bearing in mind that some of you are some of my favorite actors, directors, and moviemakers, I still have to let you know, in case you didn't:
Roman Polanski DRUGGED AND RAPED AND SODOMIZED A THIRTEEN YEAR OLD GIRL AND THEN RAN TO EUROPE WHEN HE THOUGHT HE MIGHT HAVE TO ACTALLY SERVE JAIL TIME FOR IT! HE HID IN FRANCE FOR THIRTY YEARS LIVING THE LIFE OF REILLY! HE IS NOT JEAN-GODDAMN-FUCKING-VALJEAN, HE IS AN ADMITTED RAPIST AND A PEDOPHILE AND NO AMOUNT OF GOOD MOVIE CREDITS WILL EVER CHANGE THAT!
(ETA: Let me put it this way, he did not steal a loaf of bread, he grabbed a little girl in the woods and "went to the well" with her, ifyouknowwhatImean, REPEATEDLY, AGAINST HER WILL. Savvy?)
WHAT THE FUCK IS WRONG WITH YOU ASSHATS?
And in conclusion:
UNTIL EACH OF YOU SIGNERS OF THAT PETITION TO RELEASE ROMAN POLANSKI FROM CUSTODY AGREE TO PUT YOUR OWN THIRTEEN-YEAR-OLD DAUGHTERS NAKED IN A HOTTUB WITH A RANDOM ADULT MAN WHO WORKS IN THE MOVIE INDUSTRY, GIVE HER HALF A QUAALUDE AND A GLASS OF CHAMPAGNE, AND THEN TURN YOUR BACK AND WALK AWAY,
FUCK YOU
Sincerely,
Arlene C. Harris
PS: and a special mini FUCK YOU to Whoopi Goldberg. Although you didn't sign, you defended the fucktard. PROTIP: There's no such thing as "RAPE-rape," there is no qualifier. STFU.
PPS: Kevin Smith and BIll Maher: THANK YOU. Sometimes you're hard to like... but not today.
UPDATE 1: there's a list of people who are condemning him or signing antipetition. It's listed here:
http://chrismm.livejournal.com/578016.html
And add to the first list above, the Loser Walk of Shame: Penelope Cruz and Natalie Portman. And...
Harrison Ford
No I am not making this up. Harrison... How COULD you?