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It shouldn’t have come as any surprise.
-Hollywood is an environment that thrives on the publicity of bad behavior in general. The punishment usually takes the form of court-ordered callow televised Public Service Announcements like “Don’t Do Drugs” or whatever –only increasing the individual's Exposure.
But isn't capital "E" Exposure the blood and oil of the so-called entertainment industry today anyway? It seems to me -by logical extension- we are actually paying people to be interesting travesties.
Ironic.
Jillian Michaels –of “Biggest Loser” fame- has given me my favorite quote so far [linked here] in regard to the Roman Polanski arrest: ”I think it’s up to the girl, frankly. I think that if she, you know, if she’s okay with it, and she feels that they’re resolved, then who are we to say? But if the victim has issues, then I feel she should have retribution.”
Well with heavy heart, Jillian Michaels is officially stricken from my list of potential babysitters.
When I was 13, I was a little too preoccupied with comic books and Star Wars memorabilia to worry about getting drugged and raped by and ragingly successful 44 year old movie director -not to mention all the life-altering publicity that would forever haunt me when the perpetrator skipped to another country to make more great movies.
Still, I suppose it is true that while he eluded the law for over a quarter of a century, I should have resolved most -if not all- of whatever Jillian Michaels defines as "issues" by then.
So we should be "cool."
Right, Jillian?
If you watch the video [linked again here], Jillian Michaels will go on to say "If somebody would have drugged and raped my thirteen year old, I'd shoot 'em!"

It seems in retrospect Woody Allen wasn't such a bad guy after all: he -like many other martyrs throughout history 'ahead of their time'- was only misunderstood. As a vanguard for this “New Millennium” morality, he was among the first victims of our already woefully antiquated views, and in modern folklore he’ll be remembered as a Da Vinci-like visionary.
Who could've guessed we would one day owe him an apology?