Gore Vidal: Polanski Is a Persecuted Jew
Novelist-provocateur thinks religion, not rape, to blame for director’s woes
| 2:00 PM Oct 29, 2009
So why is Roman Polanski in a Swiss prison cell? To hear author, intellectual, and seasoned provocateur Gore Vidal tell it, the famed director’s troubles have little to do with having drugged and raped a 13-year-old girl all those years ago. Polanski, Vidal tells The Atlantic in an interview published online yesterday, is being hounded ...