The Academy Awards officially need a rabbi. How else to navigate the thorny ethics that seem to sprout up each year around the question of separating the artist from the art? Of course, this is a quandary that many of us face during all points on the calendar, whether we're wrestling with nostalgia for "The Cosby Show" or the prospect of a new Roman Polanski film. But awards season puts these unsolvable issues in a s…
SOURCE: The New Yorker at 07:00AM on December 21, 2016