Good for Quentin.

Arquette, once considered a rising superstar in her “Desperately Seeking Susan” days, took a swipe at the director in a recent interview, saying of his “Pulp Fiction,” in which she had a memorable scene,

“It’s iconic, a great film on a lot of levels. But personally I am over the use of the N-word…I hate it. I cannot stand that he [Tarantino] has been given a hall pass. It’s not art, it’s just racist and creepy.”

Tarantino replied with the “X” message above, and appropriately so. Among the legitimate ethics complaints against Arquette, perhaps the least is her breach of a duty to support fellow artists in their perilous and capricious profession. On the other hand,

• She is disloyal and ungrateful. Her career was already on the wane when Tarantino cast her in “Pulp Fiction.” It was a gift. For her to gratuitously criticize him now is revolting.
• Her blatant virtue-signalling to Hollywood’s Woke World is transparent, self-serving, and desperate. “Oooh, Rosanna Arquette is knocking Quentin Tarantino! Wait, who is she again?”
• Arquette’s  contention is idiotic. “Nigger” is just another word, and like all words, a legitimate tool in pursuit of character, nuance, plot, shock, surprise and humor. She’s “over it”? Swell, she doesn’t have to use it. I dare her to take a stand if she finally gets another chance at a major role and the word is contained in her dialogue. I double-dare her.
• Of course she’s looking for headlines, social media controversy and renewed relevance, and throwing Tarantino under the metaphorical bus for her own gain. A Kantian violation at best. 
• Accusing anyone in show business, that most stultifying of partisan bubbles, of “racism” is deliberately trying to inflict harm, endangering a career, income stream, popularity and reputatation.

I feel sorry for Rosanna Archette. She must feel like Moonlight Graham—“We just don’t recognize the most significant moments of our lives while they’re happening. Back then I thought, ‘Well, there’ll be other days.’ I didn’t realize that that was the only day”. She was ready to be a star, but from a combination of bad luck and bad management, she missed her moment. Her less attractive younger sister became a bigger star. Her one-trick pony of a brother had a major role in a popular horror franchise, the “Scream” films. Even her grandfather Cliff, who was a staple on “The Hollywood Squares,” had a better career.

And her reaction to her own failure and disappointment is to take a shot at Quentin Tarantino? How sad. This is a business that creates monsters.