Am not going to sully things here (just for those who want to look it up), but lyricist FREED was disgusting in the current-climate sort of way.
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https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2014/02/honor-art-without-honoring-artist
THE ART OF THE CREEP: WHEN GOOD MOVIES HAPPEN TO BAD PEOPLE
More questions: having heard this anecdote (assuming Temple is telling the truth—and what would a counter-narrative be?), does it change how we respond to The Wizard of Oz? Or Meet Me in St. Louis, Easter Parade, An American in Paris, and Singin’ in the Rain? Should it? (And can we watch any movie starring a young Judy Garland and not feel as if we’re witnessing a highly stylized from of child abuse?) Is one’s answer about Freed made simpler by the fact that he’s dead, that you can rent Easter Parade without fear of putting money in his coffers, just as you can buy books by Ezra Pound (anti-Semite) and Norman Mailer (wife stabber) without residual guilt? Myself, I declined to buy Michael Jackson records over the last two decades of his life, but I’ve also paid to see Polanski films—and he I know is guilty. Is that hypocritical, or at least inconsistent? Yes. Moral accounting so often is.
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