Roman Polanski, or pardon me but your poll is in my neck.

Oh fuck you.

http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/polanskib1.html

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, 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

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?

diiiiiiiiee

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/wire/la-oe-samantha-geimer23-2003feb23,0,4716430.story

Thanks for that Ward, hadn't ever seen that!

Isn't there another Polanski thread out there to do this on? I started this one in celebration of his movies.

Bit late now, isn't it? Anyway this always comes to mind when I think of RP anyway

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.

Yes and arresting him now will do what, drama queen

Put him in prison.

... at least put him in a cell with Phil Spector

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.

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

...if it wasn't for meddling with kids

MMM SAUSAGES

threads like this are so revealing

I imagine plenty of others in Hollywood have gotten away with it

http://freepages.books.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~cooverfamily/pg67.jpg

This case is really bringing out the stupid in people.

Isn't it.

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.

Good one

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

if you like that sort of thing.

im not sure youre using "hence" correctly there louis

Good job you weren't marking his dissertation

one hen, two hence

i thought that post was his dissertation

it makes sense that she'd want to put it behind her.

unfortunate word choice

he made Pirates, hasn't he suffered enough?

I imagine plenty of others in Hollywood have gotten away with it

yes, but for one, Charlie Chaplin married Oona!

Isn't there another Polanski thread out there to do this on? I started this one in celebration of his movies.

Maybe there should be an I Love Film board?

So, who's ever seen Cul de Sac?

it's kinda fun iirc

I remember being a bit bored. It's no Repulsion.

It's weird but not great

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?

being against child sexy stuff vs being against extradition of auteurs

What do you mean against? They're in favour of anal child rapists not being prosecuted, as long as they're talented

Polanski beating Scorsese was a high point of the decade in Oscar terms.

i think my fav. thing abt this thread is how many ppl like to gratuitously post some combination of "anal" "rape" "child" and "13 year old"

Not exactly gratuitous, to be fair.

i think my fav. thing abt this thread is how many ppl like to gratuitously post some combination of "anal" "rape" "child" and "13 year old"

A lot of us listen to the blues and Nick Cave.

naw man it's cool if we can't type "anal child rapist" now (TO REMIND EVERYONE WHAT HE DID) when can we

And your point is?

The Guardian actually has a disclaimer noting that it wasn't rape.

my point is basically that this thread sucks i guess

I can't argue with that

really? that's weird because it was, but oh yeah, polanski sued vanity fair in london for saying so the other year and for some reason he was allowed to testify via skype.

xpost

this is what happens when Inglourious Basterds fans weigh in

• Some commenters have simply used the term "rape" in relation to Roman Polanski's 1977 conviction. The offence he pleaded guilty to is often described as "statutory rape" but more precisely as "unlawful sexual intercourse with a minor".

is there any such thing as legal consensual sex with a 13 year old?