"No wonder Middle America hates them." So writes Katha Pollitt at The Nation. She's talking about those morally monstrous celebs who have run to defend Roman Polanski. The Pollitt column is great -- thoughtful, fact-filled, well crafted. The mind boggles that ANYbody can defend Polanski. These people are as far removed from decency as Michael Vick was at odds with PETA's principles. They should be shunned from all polite society and shunned from all studio work as well. Not that they would even be aware of the former, mind you, which is of course utterly alien to them. Foul, fetid Hollywood shows its ugly face again.....