Defending the Indefensible - Roman Polanski

Polanski's overrated as a director if you ask me. This thing is just another case of people who normally wouldn't have a problem calling someone out for an impropriety - don't have a problem defending a friend or associate for the same impropriety.
There is a reason Polanski hasn't been back in the U.S. That should have been a clue to his friends that he wasn't on the up and up. If he were - he would have come back and faced the music.

 

Plea bargains are made between the prosecution and the defense. The judge is under no obligation to accept the recommended sentence.

 

Come on, who among us hasn't .... wait, he did WHAT??? [/clueless Hollywood types]

 

He ALREADY pled guilty and has been convicted. They don't need her. There will be no trial, only a sentencing, the victim's testimony is not required for sentencing.

 

If a broken plea deal was going to be so egregious, and the judge's imposed sentence so severe, Polanski would have had a great case for his appeal and, scumbag or not, probably would have turned some public sentiment in his favor.

If, you know, he hadn't vamoosed 30 years ago and thumbed his nose, kitty cat, at the legal system and most people's sense of justice.

 

STFU Harvey Weinstein

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/10/01/AR2009100104203.html?hpid=opinionsbox1

 

what a fuckin douchebag. Ya....Hollywood has the best moral compass my ass, just a bunch of saints out there. How did Polanski serve his time? He's been living in the South of France for 30 years.......if that's "justice", I'm gonna kill someone by noon.

 

Dan, I think that if he had never made another film before or after Chinatown, he'd still be considered one of the best directors ever.

I think it's one of the most underrated movies of the last fifty years.

 

This was so ridiculous, I thought I'd dig up this thread. Gore Vidal takes the lead in the most shameless excuse for Roman's drugging and anal rape of a 13-year-old girl.

She was a hooker. Also, he was really being put on trial for being Jewish. And by the way, it was a different time.

Or, so sayeth the man considered the greatest essayist of the 20th century.

http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200910u/gore-vidal

 

Good gosh, that's horrific.

 

I hope she pulls a William F. Buckley and sues the hateful, rotten son of a bitch.

 

Oh my god. Unfuckingbelievable. Gore Vidal. If she was such a hooker, why did he have to drug her?

Sort of interesting "did you know" fact: he's a cousin of Jimmy Carter.