Bill Cosby Academy of Motion Picture Arts Sciences
Inevitably, Hollywood's Keen Enkindling caught upwards with Beak Cosby and Roman Polanski on Tuesday night, as the governors of the University of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences voted to expel the two in keeping with the group's new ethical conduct rules. Cosby, just bedevilled on sexual assault charges, may have been the easier decision. After all, he was never much of a feature film presence (though I have a weak spot for Hickey & Boggs).
But Polanski is some other matter, and not just because he was entangled with Jack Nicholson, at whose house he committed the 1977 unlawful sexual activity with a minor that got him banished; or Anjelica Huston, who was in and out of said house at the time; or whatsoever number of celebrities and power players who have supported him since. (Including aid to his legal effort.) More embarrassing, at least for the Academy, is Polanski'south Oscar for directing The Pianist. The accolade drew a loud standing ovation at the Kodak Theater on the dark of March 23, 2003. Meryl Streep joined in. So did Harvey Weinstein, though his own contenders—Rob Marshall for Chicago, Martin Scorsese for Gangs of New York, and Stephen Daldry for The Hours—had but been bested.
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"The room erupted — get-go in 'whoas,' and so in a gathering storm of applause," Newsweek wrote of a demonstration that is memorialized in a much-viewed YouTube video.
Over at the University'due south Margaret Herrick library, the print clips aren't old plenty to accept gathered much dust. But they read like archæology — artifacts from an era so distant, we could doubt that it always existed.
There is David Linde, then co-caput of Focus Features, which released The Pianist, assuring The Hollywood Reporter that his studio was not equipped to judge the moral status of its artists. "Information technology'south not in our area of expertise to deal with this long and often painful history that Roman has been associated with," he said of Polanski's fugitive status.
Who could dream that 15 years later, Linde would serve on the board of governors that kicked Polanski out of the Academy for that same "painful history"? (The University did not disclose individual votes or the terminal tallies.)
Certainly not Warren Beatty, the one-time ladies homo, at present married to former Academy governor Annette Bening. In those non-and so-dusty clips, Beatty is quoted as proverb: "The Pianist is an absolute masterwork. Neither a personal mistake nor the misfortunes of the creator are relative to that."
If fine art and behavior lived in separate boxes at the fourth dimension, that was not just a convenience for the celebrity aristocracy. Samantha Geimer, who had been the 13-twelvemonth-quondam victim of Polanski's assail, sounded the same theme in an op-ed piece she contributed to the Los Angeles Times. The Pianist, she wrote, should be "judged on its ain merits." A feeble boycott endeavour by British child endangerment activists went nowhere. The Pianist won directing and all-time picture show awards at the BAFTAs, and picked upward vii Cesars in French republic. Following its Oscar win, according to Diverseness, the film saw its weekend box-office rise 137 percent.
Even the New York Times, these days as vigilant as the Academy in patrolling for sexual misconduct, both in its ranks and in its coverage areas, was non much interested in Polanski'southward misdeeds. An Arts & Leisure piece of maybe 1,600 words—it was titled "Polanski and the Mural of Aloneness"—gave but one sentence, at the bottom, to the fact that he was wanted for a sex crime. (The Times review said even less.)
Merely that was all earlier the Enkindling, back when sophisticates thought it gauche to propose that misbehavior could cloud achievement, and weren't shy about saying so.
"I didn't know I had and then many friends," Polanski told Variety'due south Ground forces Archerd after the awards. Every bit it turns out, of course, he didn't. Or, at least, not many who take spoken up since the Academy decided he no longer belongs.
Source: https://deadline.com/2018/05/bill-cosby-roman-polanski-academy-of-motion-picture-arts-and-sciences-exit-harassment-1202383419/
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