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The Polanski Case: Why Using the Word 'Rape' Matters
By Ria Misra - Politics DailyRoman Polanski may be racking up some high-profile support in America, as my Politics Daily colleagues Mary, Bonnie and Domenica have noted, but abroad he's losing his friends in government fast. Both the French and Polish governments have announced they are dropping their support of Polanski, just days after foreign ministers from both countries appealed to U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton for clemency, right before she was set to chair a United Nations' meeting on sexual violence against women. Even more important than the announcement that they wouldn't officially support Polanski, ...
Exactly What Roman Polanski Did
By Bonnie Goldstein - Politics DailyYou said it, Mary. I understand the political and community cohesiveness that prompts residents of Hollywood (or Hackensack, for that matter), to publicly support a person whose work they admire and whose company they enjoy. We all occasionally refuse to focus on unflattering or boorish behavior in the haze of our affection or awe for someone we care for. But I also believe in understanding what you are fighting for, and I suggest the friends of Roman Polanski, if they can stand it, read several pages of the unsealed testimony by the 13-year-old child before they sign any petitions. (Melinda ...
Free Roman Polanski? A Backlash Begins as Some Folks Finally Get It
By Mary C. Curtis - Politics DailyWoody Allen signs a petition demanding "the immediate release" of Roman Polanski, and it's not some sort of sick joke? Hollywood just doesn't have a clue. Whenever conservatives decry "Hollywood values," the howls emanate from Malibu, with some justification. Why demonize an entire city's residents as immoral and soulless when folks there have families and lives far removed -- for the most part -- from reality-show fodder? Then a fugitive from justice is picked up in Switzerland to finally face the crime of having sex with a minor, a crime he pleaded guilty to more than 30 years before, and ...
Now Playing: Roman Polanski -- The Sequel
By Bonnie Goldstein - Politics DailyAt 76 years old, Roman Polanski is the personification of tragic literary narrative. No Polanski biography is complete without the story arc of Holocaust survivor/Hollywood playboy/heartbroken victim of evil/visionary director/child molester/fugitive. But the storyteller's many-chaptered life turned another page Sunday when Switzerland exercised a 31-year-old-arrest warrant from the Los Angeles county district attorney's office in the far away State of California.The director of "Chinatown" pled guilty in 1977 to having sex with a minor, but a recent documentary argues that he became a ...
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