No, this isn’t about Roman Polanski, though the timing couldn’t be eerier.
Don’t ask me how I’ve become the blogger-in-chief for the early ’90s — I guess just because I was there. But now that the chickens are coming home to roost, well …
To wit: I was saddened to see in TheWrap yesterday that my old friend Roger Avary — who shares as many Academy Awards as Quentin Tarantino (one-half — they split the screenwriting one for "Pulp Fiction," meaning they either had to slice it in half or share custody) — is now on his way to state prison for a year for drunkenly driving his car at more than 100 mph into a telephone pole in Ojai, killing one friend and nearly killing his wife, Gretchen, who supported him for years while he struggled as an independent filmmaker.