Oh The Irony: Woody Allen Supports Roman Polanski

Have you heard this one yet? Woody Allen thinks Roman Polanski should be left alone for the decades-old sex crime that currently has him under house arrest in Gstaad, Switzerland. Right Or Wrong? Roman Polanski Speaks Out

According to Allen, Polanski "was embarrassed by the whole thing," "has suffered," and is "an artist and is a nice person" who "did something wrong and he paid for it."

So there you go. Of course the irony and the humor in this statement is that it is completely what you would expect to come out of his mouth given Allen's own career-tainting sex scandal. You know, the whole affair and eventual marriage to his adopted daughter. 4 Strangest Celebrity Family Relationships Ever

But as the bespectacled one said recently, "One must have one's delusions to live. If you look at life too honestly and too clearly life does become unbearable because it's a pretty grim enterprise."

Indeed. Even though Allen is speaking above about themes in his latest movie You Will Meet A Tall, Dark Stranger, his statement has a particular resonance in context to both his life and Polanski's.

That is a need for a certain moral squinty-ness when it comes to their personal life. It was so long ago... the heart wants what the heart wants... but they make such good art!

So forget about the icky parts. Forget about absolutism. Forget even, if you can, that Polanski's sexual misconduct was most likely more than a once-off affair. (The latest news has it that the British actress Charlotte Lewis has accused Polanski of sexually abusing her "in the worst possible way" when she was 16 at his Paris apartment in the 1980s.)

They can. Can you?

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