Short, white-haired strange guy at the premiere of Tall, Dark Stranger, Cannes, May 2010. Photo courtesy of Zimbio
Right on the heels of a second allegation that Roman Polanski forced an underage woman to have sex with him, Woody Allen steps forward to defend him.
According to the Huffington Post:
Allen said Polanski "was embarrassed by the whole thing," "has suffered" and "has paid his dues." He said Polanski is "an artist and is a nice person" who "did something wrong and he paid for it."
O RLY.
At Mamarazzi, we have the memory of an elephant and the maturity level of an eight-year-old. When we think about a film director with a taste for much younger, easily victimized, dependent women defending another film director with ditto, our first reaction is something along the lines of "takes one to know one!"
The only thing creepier and less self-aware would be if Amy Winehouse remade the Britney YouTube video and called it "Leave Lindsay Alone!"
I just do NOT understand all these Hollywood a-holes defending this pervert. Just how the hell did he *suffer* or *pay dues*?? He lived high on the hog in Europe? That was suffering? He certainly wasn't going around looking over his shoulder worried about having to actually pay for what he did... he really thought he got away with it. I am not so sure about this other victim appearing, why now... but, in any case, he is a sick twisted asshole. I don't see these morons hanging around the prisons defending other child molesters... I mean gee.. I am sure they suffer too... let's just let them all go free to share their talents...