Seriously?!?

Hey, Hollywood glitterati! If there was ever a time to STFU, this is it.

From a gleaning of the news stories on the various petitions, a list of signatories demanding the immediate release of admitted child rapist and fugitive from justice Roman Polanski:

Isabelle Adjani
Woody Allen
Pedro Almodovar
Asia Argento
Wes Anderson
Darren Aronofsky
Fanny Ardant
Paul Auster
Monica Bellucci
Alfonso Cuaron
Jonathan Demme
Arielle Dombasle
Ariel Dorfman
Stephen Frears
Diane von Furstenberg
Terry Gilliam
Buck Henry
Just Jaeckin
Neil Jordan
Harmony Korine
Milan Kundera
John Landis
Claude Lanzmann
Bernard-Henri Lévy
David Lynch
Michael Mann
Jeanne Moreau
Mike Nichols
Alexander Payne
Avital Ronell
Salman Rushdie
Walter Salles
Julian Schnabel
Barbet Schroeder
Martin Scorsese
Tilda Swinton
Wim Wenders

Assuming the reportage on this subject has been accurate, I find on this list many artists whose work I admire, some whose work I adore, and a lot whose work I respect, but now in a single move they have proven that none of them are people whose moral or ethical reasoning could be said to be sound, compelling, or even merely defensible. Really, you want to spend your credibility to defend someone who drugged and raped a child? Martin Scorsese, you broke my heart.

Kate Harding gets the analysis right on Salon.com.  See also, Variety, HuffPo, SACD petition.