Roman Polanski Arrested

JP Liz

Oscar-winning director Roman Polanski was arrested by Swiss police on Saturday. Polanski fled the US in 1978 after pleading guilty to having sex with a 13-year-old girl.
The director was scheduled to receive a lifetime achievement award at the Zurich Film Festival, but was put in provisional detention in Switzerland.
"There was a valid arrest request and we knew when he was coming," ministry spokesman Guido Balmer told the AP. "That's why he was taken into custody."
A US warrant for Polanski's arrest was issued when he left the country more than 30 years ago before his sentencing.
Polanski, 76, is the director of classic films including "Chinatown" and "Rosemary's Baby." He won an Academy Award in 2003 for "The Pianist" but was not present to accept the Oscar. Presenter Harrison Ford accepted the award on his behalf.
Polanski is married to French actress Emanuelle Seigner and has two children.

It's about time he was caught. He drugged and sodomized a 13 year old child. He pleaded guilty and skipped town.

Lorrs33

I sympathised with him given what happened to his wife and unborn child, but it can't be used as an excuse for what he did.

Stargal

I'm really disgusted with all the people who have come out in support of Polanski. Whoopi Goldberg said yesterday that what he did wasn't "rape-rape" and that he's served his time. Don't have the words to express how angry I am at such a stupid statement. What, so because he's a famous director his crime should be seen differently from a randomer who committed the same (horrific) assault?

Nothing justifies what he did. Not his past, not what his powerful friends are saying, not the fact that times have changed since it took place. He drugged and anally raped a 13 year old kid when he was 44. He didn't serve a prison sentence, he ran away and has never faced up to what he did. Cowardly and pathetic.

There's a good rebuttal of the people defending him in Time magazine which demolishes the argument that morals were different when the crime took place (all the way back in the 1970s!)

Thornography

Was'nt rape-rape?

**** sake, Hollywood must really live in their own bubble of **** to come out with a statement like that.

in 10,000bc, if you drugged and raped a child, its still rape!

**** morals, Its fact!

Ridley

Stargal wrote: »

I'm really disgusted with all the people who have come out in support of Polanski. Whoopi Goldberg said yesterday that what he did wasn't "rape-rape" and that he's served his time. Don't have the words to express how angry I am at such a stupid statement. What, so because he's a famous director his crime should be seen differently from a randomer who committed the same (horrific) assault?

She still said he was making whoopee...

Ah, my coat.

xanthor

What will happen is that it will get bogged down in months of appeals. Then he'll appoint a Lawyer and an 'expert' doctor who will diagnose him with some rare condition that so many famous celebrities seem to develop just as they go to trial. He'll then be let off with a week of community service.

Personally however, I think he should be made an example of.

brendansmith

Celebs can do what they like apparently.

Sure didnt Matthew Broderick kill someone in Ireland and get off with it.

Vince Neil went out joyriding pi$$ed out of his mind and killed his roadie and was back touring in no time.

Its Bullsh1t!

http://www.criminaljusticeschools.com/blog/21-celebrities-who-have-killed

Fr. Larry Duff

What a world!

Polanski gets away for 30 years for "not rape-rape"ing a girl

They guy who mowed down Kirsty MacColl in a speedboat gets fined $2240

Roddy Molloy gets €1.1 million

I can't believe it's not butter

brendansmith

French come to their senses
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/8283707.stm

Nu-Centz

wasn't "rape-rape".....that is absolutely ridiculous, what a truelly idiotic statement.

unreggd

Glad to see some sense here

its fvckin disgustin that people are pleading FOR him

and the fact he skipped town

he should be locked up without trial

BolBill

Ridley wrote: »

Ah, my coat.

Quality !

JP Liz

Roman Polanski's arrest has divided Hollywood, with stars including Monica Bellucci petitioning for his release, while others, including Kirstie Alley, spoke out against the director.
Martin Scorsese, Woody Allen and David Lynch are among those who have signed a petition demanding the 76-year-old director be released following his arrest in Switzerland for charges relating to sex with a 13-year-old girl in 1977.
But Kirstie Alley, The View's Sherri Shepherd and songwriter Jewel have all reacted strongly on social networking site Twitter, insisting the filmmaker does not deserve support simply because he has produced great art in his movies.
Notable names in the film industry to sign the petition campaigning for Polanski's release include Pedro Almodovar, John Landis, Jonathan Demme, Wim Wenders, Terry Gilliam, Monica Bellucci, Tilda Swinton, Asia Argento, Wong Kar-Wai, Darren Aronofsky, Alfonso Cuaron and Alejandro and Gonzalez Inarritu.
Sherri Shepherd and Whoopi Goldberg debated the arrest on US TV show The View.
Sherri argued for the director to be punished while Whoopi refused to give a direct opinion, but insisted they correctly term Polanski's charge - that he pleaded guilty to unlawful sexual intercourse with a minor.

fullstop

JP Liz wrote: »

Roman Polanski's arrest has divided Hollywood, with stars including Monica Bellucci petitioning for his release, while others, including Kirstie Alley, spoke out against the director.
Martin Scorsese, Woody Allen and David Lynch are among those who have signed a petition demanding the 76-year-old director be released following his arrest in Switzerland for charges relating to sex with a 13-year-old girl in 1977.
But Kirstie Alley, The View's Sherri Shepherd and songwriter Jewel have all reacted strongly on social networking site Twitter, insisting the filmmaker does not deserve support simply because he has produced great art in his movies.
Notable names in the film industry to sign the petition campaigning for Polanski's release include Pedro Almodovar, John Landis, Jonathan Demme, Wim Wenders, Terry Gilliam, Monica Bellucci, Tilda Swinton, Asia Argento, Wong Kar-Wai, Darren Aronofsky, Alfonso Cuaron and Alejandro and Gonzalez Inarritu.
Sherri Shepherd and Whoopi Goldberg debated the arrest on US TV show The View.
Sherri argued for the director to be punished while Whoopi refused to give a direct opinion, but insisted they correctly term Polanski's charge - that he pleaded guilty to unlawful sexual intercourse with a minor.

Did you write this article yourself?

ejmaztec

fullstop wrote: »

Did you write this article yourself?

It was an on the spot report sent directly to the Boards.ie news-desk.:p