Though nice try Whoopi with the "Europeans have sex with children all the time!" argument, or whatever that was
Uh...
― The Prince's choice: making a brush. (Tom D.), Tuesday, 29 September 2009 10:48 (fourteen years ago) link
tbh, reading reports of the french reaction to this, i can see why she'd think that.
― history mayne, Tuesday, 29 September 2009 10:50 (fourteen years ago) link
When in Rome...
― Peinlich Manoeuvre (NickB), Tuesday, 29 September 2009 10:52 (fourteen years ago) link
...nope, give up.
― Peinlich Manoeuvre (NickB), Tuesday, 29 September 2009 10:53 (fourteen years ago) link
When in Alabama...
― The Prince's choice: making a brush. (Tom D.), Tuesday, 29 September 2009 10:55 (fourteen years ago) link
Christ almighty, Whoopi. I like his movies, too, but wtf are you on about? I don't believe in hell, so I think the man should at least die in prison.
― tie me up, dress in drag, and read to me from the bible (kenan), Tuesday, 29 September 2009 10:57 (fourteen years ago) link
SNL seriously needs to get Tracy Morgan to come back and cameo for a parody of that conversation. serious lolz at "allegedly"
― Fetchboy, Tuesday, 29 September 2009 10:59 (fourteen years ago) link
Has the victim been quoted anywhere?
Ah yes, here in the NY Times: "The victim in the case, Samantha Geimer, has long publicly identified herself and expressed forgiveness of Mr. Polanski."
That's kind of all I need to know.
― Nate Carson, Tuesday, 29 September 2009 11:03 (fourteen years ago) link
Oh is it now.
― tie me up, dress in drag, and read to me from the bible (kenan), Tuesday, 29 September 2009 11:05 (fourteen years ago) link
Oh the man should at least die in prison now.
― conrad, Tuesday, 29 September 2009 11:09 (fourteen years ago) link
American prison would be preferable, for my vengeful purposes.
― tie me up, dress in drag, and read to me from the bible (kenan), Tuesday, 29 September 2009 11:12 (fourteen years ago) link
What do you care?
― Niles Caulder, Tuesday, 29 September 2009 11:14 (fourteen years ago) link
Oh fuck you.
http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/polanskib1.html
― tie me up, dress in drag, and read to me from the bible (kenan), Tuesday, 29 September 2009 11:14 (fourteen years ago) link
― Nate Carson, Tuesday, September 29, 2009 7:03 AM (9 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
THE CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM DOES NOT WORK THAT WAY!
http://arthive.scrippscollege.edu/2007_2008/ART_142/YOU_WILL-SP08/KSTATES/morbo.gif
― a wicked 60s beat poop combo (Pancakes Hackman), Tuesday, 29 September 2009 11:15 (fourteen years ago) link
xp You're right, I suppose. It's not my daughter. But Jesus Christ almighty. Does everyone understand what it is that he plead guilty to?
― tie me up, dress in drag, and read to me from the bible (kenan), Tuesday, 29 September 2009 11:16 (fourteen years ago) link
diiiiiiiiee
― conrad, Tuesday, 29 September 2009 11:17 (fourteen years ago) link
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/wire/la-oe-samantha-geimer23-2003feb23,0,4716430.story
― Ward Fowler, Tuesday, 29 September 2009 11:19 (fourteen years ago) link
Thanks for that Ward, hadn't ever seen that!
― young depardieu looming out of void in hour of profound triumph (Le Bateau Ivre), Tuesday, 29 September 2009 11:21 (fourteen years ago) link
Isn't there another Polanski thread out there to do this on? I started this one in celebration of his movies.
― boring movies are the most boring (Eric H.), Tuesday, 29 September 2009 11:24 (fourteen years ago) link
Bit late now, isn't it? Anyway this always comes to mind when I think of RP anyway
― Niles Caulder, Tuesday, 29 September 2009 11:25 (fourteen years ago) link
I am aware that the victim forgives him, kind of, but she also makes it clear that she would mainly rather not be interviewed about it anymore. And I am aware that his trial was a botched mess of OJ proportions. But what he did, AND PLEAD GUILTY TO, would be rape no matter the girl's age, is rape now, and is totally totally inexcusable under any circumstance and in any culture. It's uglier than sin. It's uglier than Miles Davis wearing plaid. It's very very fucking ugly.
― tie me up, dress in drag, and read to me from the bible (kenan), Tuesday, 29 September 2009 11:31 (fourteen years ago) link
Yes and arresting him now will do what, drama queen
― Niles Caulder, Tuesday, 29 September 2009 11:32 (fourteen years ago) link
Put him in prison.
― tie me up, dress in drag, and read to me from the bible (kenan), Tuesday, 29 September 2009 11:33 (fourteen years ago) link
... at least put him in a cell with Phil Spector
― The Prince's choice: making a brush. (Tom D.), Tuesday, 29 September 2009 11:34 (fourteen years ago) link
it makes sense that she'd want to put it behind her.
the weird thing is that the people who are up in arms about this are often disputing that what he did was a crime.
the court case was a complete mess. i have no idea why he was offered such a lenient deal. but skipping bail is also illegal, and surely polanski, who could have afforded the best justice money can buy, didn't really have to fear a fifty-year stretch? he probably should have thought about the possibility of serving time before raping a 13-year-old though.
― history mayne, Tuesday, 29 September 2009 11:36 (fourteen years ago) link
he probably should have thought about the possibility of serving time before raping a 13-year-old though.
I imagine plenty of others in Hollywood have gotten away with it
― The Prince's choice: making a brush. (Tom D.), Tuesday, 29 September 2009 11:39 (fourteen years ago) link
...if it wasn't for meddling with kids
― Peinlich Manoeuvre (NickB), Tuesday, 29 September 2009 11:41 (fourteen years ago) link
MMM SAUSAGES
― Niles Caulder, Tuesday, 29 September 2009 11:44 (fourteen years ago) link
threads like this are so revealing
― Where is Stephen Gobie? (Dandy Don Weiner), Tuesday, 29 September 2009 11:50 (fourteen years ago) link
http://freepages.books.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~cooverfamily/pg67.jpg
― history mayne, Tuesday, 29 September 2009 11:51 (fourteen years ago) link
This case is really bringing out the stupid in people.
― Alex in SF, Tuesday, 29 September 2009 12:32 (fourteen years ago) link
Isn't it.
― Niles Caulder, Tuesday, 29 September 2009 12:44 (fourteen years ago) link
why the fuck is ezra pound a more defensible – apparently *much* more defensible – figure than polanski?
seriously, what is it about pound, unbelievably tedious and fraudeulent before he became a fascist, that you like?
Uh, it was a joke, my friend.
― Little starbursts of joy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 29 September 2009 12:54 (fourteen years ago) link
Good one
― Niles Caulder, Tuesday, 29 September 2009 12:57 (fourteen years ago) link
ezra pound was extremely influential towards a very important, even crucial area of american poetry, and indeed the one i wrote my dissertation upon...his protege louis zukofsky, curator of 'an 'objectivists' anthology', claimed a huge debt towards pound even if his own status as a russian jew set him at great political odds with pound as the 30's wore on...hence ezra pound, while his poetry contains distasteful elements, and while some personal viewpoints may have been morally repugnant, is an important and great figure within modernist poetry
― should probably be practising shorthand (country matters), Tuesday, 29 September 2009 13:05 (fourteen years ago) link
if you like that sort of thing.
― history mayne, Tuesday, 29 September 2009 13:06 (fourteen years ago) link
im not sure youre using "hence" correctly there louis
― fleetwood (max), Tuesday, 29 September 2009 13:08 (fourteen years ago) link
Good job you weren't marking his dissertation
― The Prince's choice: making a brush. (Tom D.), Tuesday, 29 September 2009 13:11 (fourteen years ago) link
one hen, two hence
― flying squid attack (tipsy mothra), Tuesday, 29 September 2009 13:14 (fourteen years ago) link
i thought that post was his dissertation
― fleetwood (max), Tuesday, 29 September 2009 13:23 (fourteen years ago) link
unfortunate word choice
― 鬼の手 (Edward III), Tuesday, 29 September 2009 13:27 (fourteen years ago) link
he made Pirates, hasn't he suffered enough?
― velko, Tuesday, 29 September 2009 14:36 (fourteen years ago) link
yes, but for one, Charlie Chaplin married Oona!
Maybe there should be an I Love Film board?
So, who's ever seen Cul de Sac?
― A Patch on Blazing Saddles (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 29 September 2009 14:36 (fourteen years ago) link
it's kinda fun iirc
― velko, Tuesday, 29 September 2009 14:39 (fourteen years ago) link
I remember being a bit bored. It's no Repulsion.
― Zelda Zonk, Tuesday, 29 September 2009 14:41 (fourteen years ago) link
It's weird but not great
― The Prince's choice: making a brush. (Tom D.), Tuesday, 29 September 2009 14:43 (fourteen years ago) link
The Guardian and The Independent have pieces today saying the dogs should be called off. The Times and The Telegraph say they shouldn't. I say: why has this become a left-right issue? Is that all that 'left' is nowadays, being against stuff?
― Ismael Klata, Tuesday, 29 September 2009 14:51 (fourteen years ago) link
being against child sexy stuff vs being against extradition of auteurs
― What are the benefits of dating a younger guy, better erections? (darraghmac), Tuesday, 29 September 2009 14:53 (fourteen years ago) link
What do you mean against? They're in favour of anal child rapists not being prosecuted, as long as they're talented
― The Prince's choice: making a brush. (Tom D.), Tuesday, 29 September 2009 14:53 (fourteen years ago) link
Polanski beating Scorsese was a high point of the decade in Oscar terms.
― boring movies are the most boring (Eric H.), Tuesday, 29 September 2009 14:54 (fourteen years ago) link