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[quote=Anonymous]My two favorite artists:  Michael Jackson and Roman Polanski.  I grappled for a long time on whether or not Michael Jackson was a pedophile.  Spent countless hours reading books refuting the allegations, civil suits, footage, and testimony.  I just assumed he was eccentric.  I even cried after hearing he passed away.  However, after Wade Robinson claimed that he molested him as a child, Michael's music became meaningless to me.

Some of Roman Polanski's films have left me spellbound.  Then, I heard him once on an interview talking about the difference between a 13 y.o. beautiful, teenage girl and an adult woman's body.  I thought I would hurl.  He totally didn't feel there was anything wrong with having sex with a young teen.  He called it sex, but the girl he raped called it rape.  I tried to justify his character  over the years by blaming the mother for not being there to chaperone.  This is so complex, even allowed my mind to believe his love for preadolescent girls wasn't as strange as I judged.  Oy.  Felt sad about him as a kid who survived the Holocaust and his struggles afterwards.  I tried to explore his personal goodness because I could certainly see it expressed through his films.   Then I start thinking about how many unreported cases of teen rape he's been involved in.  On top of it all, he doesn't seem remorseful.  His movies don't mean quite as much to me any more, the magic is gone.

Genius has two faces and evil is one of them.[/quote]

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