| Sep-27-09 | | JaneEyre: Gotcha! Now you'll pay for those awful films.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090927... |
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| Sep-28-09 | | Marmot PFL: This is all about something that happened many years ago, at Jack Nicholson's house. maybe they will bring him back and make in live in one of those sex offender camps, like the one in Miami. Could be a good movie subject. |
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| Sep-28-09 | | Valmy: A good subjet for "Cold case";-) Come on Lilly bring it to jail! |
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| Sep-28-09 | | Jim Bartle: I can't claim all his movies were great, but I've seen three I thought were outstanding: Chinatown, Death and the Maiden, and Tess. |
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| Sep-28-09 | | Valmy: Pirates? |
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| Sep-28-09 | | JaneEyre: <It’s funny. If your average guy were to rape a 13-year-old girl and then flee into exile rather than paying for his crime, pretty much everyone and their twin sister would agree that he was a scumbag who deserved nothing less than the hammer of justice brought down upon him. Turn that average guy into a rich artist with good connections, and suddenly the crime wasn’t that bad, the girl was probably asking for it (or her mother was, whatever), and it’s really close to fascism to put the guy through the indignity of being extradited to face justice.> http://www.amptoons.com/blog/archiv... |
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| Sep-28-09 | | Jim Bartle: Correct me if I'm wrong, but wasn't Polanski actually convicted of the crime, then fled to avoid going to jail? In that case, the point is not whatever the original crime was, but that you cannot allow people to escape rather than face punishment for the crimes they've been convicted of. |
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| Sep-28-09 | | Valmy: from WIKIPEDIA
"he pleaded guilty to the lesser charge of engaging in unlawful sexual intercourse with a minor.[39]
"2008, Geimer stated in an interview that she wishes Polanski would be forgiven, I think he's sorry, I think he knows it was wrong. I don't think he's a danger to society. I don't think he needs to be locked up forever and no one has ever come out ever - besides me - and accused him of anything. It was 30 years ago now. It's an unpleasant memory ... (but) I can live with it."[42] It looks like he signed an plea guilty agreement but didn't executed it. He flew to europe.
I don't now if pursuant to the US law, the agreement is still valid or not. I would think that it isn't and that a new trial would be held. The problem is that the prosecution is status barred in most European countries. I don't see how he could be extraded to US if the crime is status barred is Switzerland |
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| Sep-28-09 | | JaneEyre: From 2005, Dateline NBC ran a show called <To Catch a Predator> that set-up some wannabe Polanskis for the greater public edification/entertainment. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yBN6...
Hard to stop watching these clips. I swear that you'll almost (I said almost) end up feeling sorry for some of them. |
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| Sep-30-09 | | JaneEyre: <Despite that, Mr Polanski has no shortage of supporters, including at least 110 film industry figures who have signed a petition calling for his release. Among them are Martin Scorsese, Woody Allen and David Lynch, as well as Wim Wenders, Pedro Almodovar, Tilda Swinton and Monica Bellucci.> Woody Allen, I can understand.
<Actor Peter Fonda said he thought "celebrating the arrest of Osama bin Laden and not the arrest of Polanski" was far more important.> That's got to be the non-sequitur of the @#$%ing year. |
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| Sep-30-09 | | ROADDOG: Polanski should be sent to Rikers Island and housed with the sodomites to pay for his crime. What if it was your 13 year old daughter? |
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| Sep-30-09 | | Shams: Apparently he also "bed" (raped?) Nastassja Kinski, 15 I believe, on the set of "Tess". Then there was this chestnut from 1979: <“If I had killed somebody, it wouldn’t have had so much appeal to the press, you see? But… f—ing, you see, and the young girls. Judges want to f— young girls. Juries want to f— young girls. Everyone wants to f— young girls!”> Here's Alex Massie, making sense:
http://www.spectator.co.uk/alexmass... << I can't claim all his movies were great, but I've seen three I thought were outstanding: Chinatown, Death and the Maiden, and Tess.>> Jim, you left off "Repulsion" and the absolutely brilliant "Rosemary's Baby". One of my favorite filmmakers, but the man is a pedophile. |
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Sep-30-09
 | | HeMateMe: He's vermin, but remember, he's an old guy now. The girl in question, who should really be at the center of this, is in her late 40s or early 50s. She has publicly said that she doesn't want him broght back for trial; she doesn't want to relive the nightmare with today's paparazzi and press. also, I've always wondered what the mother was doing, letting her 13 year old daughter go off to some guy's house for a 'private photo shoot'. She must be a little screwy. |
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| Sep-30-09 | | grasser: I'm confused. If I were
EDWARD Polanski I'd be more than a bit upset right about now. The Person in question is Roman Polanski. |
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| Jul-12-10 | | Marmot PFL: He is free! So if u get in trouble, hide out in Switzerland. |
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Feb-08-13
 | | perfidious: < JaneEyre: <Despite that, Mr Polanski has no shortage of supporters, including at least 110 film industry figures who have signed a petition calling for his release.
Among them are Martin Scorsese, Woody Allen and David Lynch, as well as Wim Wenders, Pedro Almodovar, Tilda Swinton and Monica Bellucci.> Woody Allen, I can understand. >
Allen was just helping a fellow former perv in trouble, is all. |
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