When Mr. Wolcott is writing as a critic, I find his use of $10 dollar words create an image of pretension and arrogance. Most likely this is a result of my issues filtering his content than any actual pretension or arrogance on his part. None-the-less, I ended up discontinuing his RSS feed because of that impression. That, and Vanity Fair screwed up their RSS feeds.
However, every once in a while, he writes a simple, elegant post that manages to force a different perspective on me.
Now, I have made no effort to apologies for Mr. Polanski's rape of a 13 year old girl back in the 1970s. I believe it was heinous, perverted, and disgusting. But my concern has been with re-raping this woman today. And to be honest, I still stand by that. No justice is achieved by dragging this sordid tale of depravity and perversion through the public sphere once again.
Yet, with James' simple post, he has managed to get me to see the whole hypocricy of Hollywood, which would come to Mr. Polanski's rescue and at the same time vilify a victim, such as Mackenzie Phillips.
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