And think about all those years so many Hollywood Celebs declared this guy one of the best guys in Town, sung his praises up and down....
HOW EMBARRASSING
Are all the movies Harvey produced no longer worth watching?
Lord Byron was a bisexual pedophile who enjoyed affairs with young teenagers who also happened to be married, and had been known to seduce their husbands as well. Is his poetry and standing in the British romantic poetry movement of his day any less? Mary Shelley lost a child of her future husband during her teenage years, then married Shelley after his wife committed suicide. Her theme of man playing god in Frankenstein has inspired religious anti science attitudes throughout the western world, yet she rejected all organized religions. She enjoyed three ways with Lord Byron and her husband Pyrce. Are her novels any less terrifying? In her novel "The Last Man" she predicted HIV. Is Pyrce Shelley's poetry any less enjoyable?
William Blake was an habitual use of psychotropics, couldn't recall how many children he had with his wife or his many young mistresses. "TIGER, tiger, burning bright. In the forests of the night,. What immortal hand or eye. Could frame thy fearful symmetry?" Are his visions of the human soul, both in poetry and his paintings of lesser value. BTW, he was short and stout, not anyone's image of a Don Juan, especially because he believed bathing was unhealthy.
Jack Warner was believed to have seduced Shirley Temple when was 12. It was said of Jack, he never hired an actress who didn't first grace his casting couch. Does than mean you shouldn't watch any Warners Brother's movies, or anything with the Time Warner label?
James Fenimore Cooper, our esteemed father of the American novel, believed a "woman's help was useless, but a man has needs." His daughter Susan Fenimore Cooper was a writer on nature, female suffrage, and other topics. She and her father often edited each other's work and they were lovers. Does that diminish "The Last of the Mohicans?" Or his racist vision of the noble savage as a white man who outdoes the savages at their own games?
Actor John Wayne married three different Mexican beauties. His first two wives divorced him because of his many affairs with young starlets. The media gossip columnists like his friend Hedda Hopper, protected him by claiming those women were naturally jealous of imaginary lovers of their husband, as was their "ethnic wont." (I've never found "wont" in a dictionary.)
Roman Polanski's "Chinatown" is still a masterpiece. He gave Catherine Deneuve her start as an internationally acclaimed actress in "Repulsion." Is she any less one of the world's most beautiful women to have graced the silver screen? She still laughs and walks away when asked if she was one of Polanski's young lovers.
Benjamin Franklin would often start his day with an air bath. Naked in a tub empty of water, he'd invite young ladies to sit by his side as he read out loud his own rumination, preferably married young ladies. He remained in France, rather than spend time with his wife who remained in their marital home, here.
Most scandals pass, yet accomplishments persevere. Then of course, there are the Fatty Abuckles, who were never guilty and ruined by accusations.
