Maybe Hollywood and the American entertainment industry folks aren't so out of touch with American morality after all. Writing in the Los Angeles Times , Patrick Goldstein emphasizes  that most of the signers of the petition defending Roman Polanski  were European entertainment figures; the few prominent American signers such as Woody Allen and Martin Scorsese live in New York as does Whoopi Goldberg who distinguishes between rape by an older man on a drugged 13 year old, which is apparently ok and "rape-rape," which if, presumably done on her as a teen ager or her teen aged daughter, is not. There's no petition going around with the names of the real Hollywood elite -- "A"-list filmmakers and studio chiefs like Steven Spielberg, Alan Horn, James Cameron, Amy Pascal, Jerry Bruckheimer, Brian Grazer, Tom Rothman, J.J. Abrams, John Lasseter or Michael Bay -- because the real Hollywood elite isn't supporting Polanski. In fact, they haven't offered the...(Read Full Post)