Apparently, Bernard-Henry Lévy -- everyone's favorite French philosopher, intellectual, self-proclaimed provocateur folk hero, and defender of upper-crust artistic geniuses everywhere -- got tired of being misunderstood (read: raked over the coals) and has penned a new, more detailed plea on behalf of Roman Polanski.
This one's aimed at the judges in the case and not only seeks to, ahem, "clarify" his previous position by asserting that he does in fact understand the extreme nature of the crime Polanski committed; it also lays out point-by-point why none of that crap matters and Polanski should still be left alone.
My favorite ferociously melodramatic quote:
"This lynching is a disturbance of the public order more serious than Roman Polanski remaining free. This tenacity on the part of the gossips, and this desire to see the head of an artist on a pike, are the very essence of immorality."
Really? That's the essence of immorality?
Dear God, are this man's priorities screwed up.
The Huffington Post: On the Polanski Affair/10.6.09
(How much do you love that picture, by the way? Doesn't that really say it all? For the record, and I've mentioned this a couple of times, I'm actually one of those people who believes that the French have good reason to revel in their culture; it's wondrous in so many ways. But sorry, a bad cliché is a bad cliché -- and "BHL" is the worst kind of French stereotype.)
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