By now you’ve probably heard that a bunch of celebrities are signing a petition calling for the release of Roman Polanski. Maybe the beautiful people don’t realize that he’s an admitted and utterly unrepentant child-rapist. Maybe they haven’t read — er, haven’t had their people read — the harrowing court testimony of Polanski’s victim. Maybe they just don’t care because it was a super-long time ago and besides, they hope to work with him one day. Whatever the case, they’re standing up for the little pedo. The best part is that one of the signatories is none other than Woody Allen. Maybe he figured, “Hey, why not? Everybody’s gonna be joking about it anyway.”
But there’s good news: Celebs aren’t all nuts! Well, not about this, anyway.
Courtesy of the magic of Twitter, here’s @jeweljk, AKA the lovely singer-songwriter Jewel:
Polanski-admitted raping a 13 yr old-whys every1 in the arts upset hes facing jail? cause hes a gifted director? what am i missing?
It’s not what she’s missing, but what she’s not missing: a soul.
Tweetwhile, @kirstiealley also chimed in:
JUST FOR THE RECORD….RAPE IS RAPE…this is one HOLLYWOOD STAR who does not CELEBRATE or DEFEND Roman Polanski..his ART did not RAPE her
Which just goes to show that an oddly capitalized message from a crazy person who perhaps overestimates her own star power can also contain an indisputable truth! You know Whoopi Goldberg is having a bad week when Kirstie Alley is making more sense than her.
Speaking of Whoopi, guess which product she just started endorsing?
Keep in mind that it’s only a myTouch, not a myTouch-myTouch. Coming soon is a version for tweens called the KidTouch.
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I take back everything I ever said about Jewel’s crappy book of poetry. Right on girl.
I can’t forgive Kirstie ever after that pic of her on this site turned me away from women forever.
There have got to be more celebs out there that see this as wrong. Where are they?
Whoopi also lists ‘child advocate’ in her resume. She’s not advocating for the child here. Far from it. Disgusting piece of .
I still ask this: How many of the Hollyweirdos defending Polanski wanted those lacrosse players in jail for a rape we all know never happened?
I can just hear those My Touch commercials now:
“And if you want to sing out, sing out,
And if you want to rape a girl, rape a girl,
There’s a million ways to rape,
As long as it’s not rape-rape…”
John Legend shows some common sense (twitter.com/johnlegend):
“I’m trying to understand why Hollywood is lining up to defend Roman Polanski. Didn’t he plead guilty to raping a 13 year old girl?”
“A man in his 30’s cannot have “consensual” sex with a 13-year-old. It is legally impossible for a child to give consent. It is rape. …”
“RT @Littlewaysangel check out this article on the Roman Polanski issue–it says it all http://bit.ly/S2ULo”
The link he posted is to an opinion piece in The Patriot Ledger that bitchslaps Whoopi into next year.
I’ll start listening to Kirstie when she leaves her brainwasherific ufo cult.
it’s a sad day when people defend a celeb for ADMITTING to drugging and raping/sodomizing a 13 year old girl. the next arrested pedo should say, well, hey, i mean she was almost 14…i know i haven’t directed any movies or anything, but Roman’s a decent guy according to stars/hollywood.
Yeah, I saw that commercial with Whoopi during Glee last night, and I was thinking, “How long before there’s enough public outcry that they drop her?”
Come on guys, Whoopi is an admitted crack head, so perhaps the residual crack that was stored in her hair came loose and started to affect her normally rational thinking.
That or she is on something else to come off with a whack job phrase like “it wasn’t really rape-rape”.
@Roco Lore: Exactly. Try mentioning that to any of them and see how fast you get kicked out of something, though, because having a memory longer than an episode of “Weeds” just isn’t in these days.
Neither can a 44 year old man.
Polanski was born on August 18, 1933 and was 44 in 1977 when he drugged and anally raped that 13 year old girl.
My gut feeling is that as Whoopi Goldberg’s career implodes, that despite her denials, she will reveal herself as a victim of childhood sexual abuse in the final moments of her career’s collapse.
Her abuse status does not negate her smearing the thirteen year old victim or attempts at redefining the word rape, but may salvage the shreds of her career.
Nothing could express my surprise that the liberal left, has adopted this particular platform as an important issue of the Democratic platform, but I can also think of no better differentiation for swing voters than the Conservative concept that “raping children is wrong.”
Remember voters…
Liberals = “Raping kids is ok”
Conservatives = “Raping kids is NOT ok”
F.S.
Don’t forget if you are a liberal Gloria will give you a “get a free grope” card.
At least Michael Vick did his time. Polanski was going to get the best plea deal ever for the crime and he couldn’t even do that?!?!?!
Here we go; some celebrities took the cue and start thinking by themselves. Wonderful.
wtf?
http://nymag.com/daily/entertainment/2008/05/the_surprise_guest_at_the_roma.html
Just a slight derivation of Stockholm Syndrome, mermaid.
Her whole life, this girl has been smeared bya compliant media as an opportunistic gold digger. At heart she’s a simple person who just wants to be left alone.
She was paid a financial settlement that probably bought her a house in her quiet little town and paid for her kids’ college with the contractual stipulatoin that she had to show up and shill for the movie.
I wonder how Whoopie Goldberg feels about Elizabeth Smart. Tawana Brawley?
And now, Harvey Weinstein opens his yap (emphasis mine):
In an interview, Weinstein said that people generally misunderstand what happened to Polanski at sentencing. He’s not convinced public opinion is running against the filmmaker and dismisses the categorization of Hollywood as amoral. “Hollywood has the best moral compass, because it has compassion,” Weinstein said. “We were the people who did the fundraising telethon for the victims of 9/11. We were there for the victims of Katrina and any world catastrophe.”
Get that? “WE” did the fundraising for 9/11. “WE” were there to help when Katrina hit. “WE” had to get the “little people” to contribute, because “THEY” don’t have compassion – only “WE” do.
Damn Dave, you beat me to it!
I wanna know who the hell Weinstein thinks did the actual donating for his telethon????
It’s not like Jonathan Lipnicki, Tom Bergeron, and that pipsqueek from 90210 magically tap danced money outta the ozone…
Just to pile on a little, “Rosemary’s Baby” was boring, dumb, and not scary at all. I guess if your wife is slaughtered by hippies everyone thinks you’re a genius.
C’mere, Harvey, and close your mouth so I can slam my fist into it. I’m normally not a violent person but all these celebritards deserve a slap upside their heads so big their veneers rattle.
I’ve always loved John Legend and his music and talent, and now I love him even more. Go JL!
LN said “Don’t forget if you are a liberal Gloria will give you a “get a free grope” card.” WRONG – She was on the Today show DEFENDING the arrest. Just because you want to make this a liberal/conservative issue doesn’t mean it is one. As you can see, some of liberal Hollywood are now coming out against him. I haven’t heard a PEEP from the conservatives one way or another.
Fortunate_Son: “Liberals = “Raping kids is ok” ” NOT IN A MILLION YEARS is this correct. Yes, there are SOME liberals defending him, but do not paint us all with the same brush or even try to pretend this is actually true. As you can see, there is a big backlash against the celebrities that have signed this petition. He needs to come back here & face the consequences and also face felony charges for being a fugitive. Even the people DEFENDING him have not said his CRIME was OK. Their position is that he paid for his crime, is a brilliant director and this was over 30 years ago, so he should be given a break. I happen to STRONGLY disagree with them, liberal or not.
I’ve never seen Rosemary’s Baby, but I’ve heard many movies of that ilk that are supposedly terrifying are actually painfully boring.
I don’t think they are terrifying, I think they are cuddly
Pasta: I love “Rosemary’s Baby,” and when I first saw it I didn’t know who anyone involved in the making of it was except for Mia Farrow.
So using the same logic as a lot of celebrities I propose we start to overlook something else now. Since it happened a long time ago can we now finally forget the Holocaust ever happened too?
I mean it was a genocide, not a genocide-genocide.
We can overlook SO MANY things that way, Irish! Genius!
….although I’d start with airplanes and pollution, since clearly people are already using that logic to justify their private planes while bitching at the rest of us. See, THEIR planes use fuel, but not fuel-fuel.
@Pearce. Rosemary’s Baby was scary for it’s time. It’s the same way with The Omen. I think today’s movie going folk are a bit desensitized as violence in movies got more graphic over the decades. The Exorcist was ahead of its time. People were fainting and crying after the movie. That movie was about being possessed by Satan Satan Whoopi. I didn’t watch that movie until 3 years ago. My brother forced me to watch some of it when I was 7. Scarred for life.
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again, and sing it with me if you know the words. The only thing about 9/11 that upset celebrities? Was the fact that for a few hours, their faces and names weren’t front and center in the media.
“Best moral compass”, my smooth, sculptured ass. I’d say “Suck it, Harvey”, but I’m sure that’s just another day’s work for that douchebag.
I knew I liked Jewel for a reason (just like I knew I hated Woody Allen for a reason). To be fair, most of the names on that petition, aside from a handful of directors, are not American. Mostly the elitist pseudo-intellectual Eurotrash. I find it curious that a lot of them are lesser-known or completely unknown and that the entire cast and crew of the creep’s latest movie signed the petition as well. Makes you wonder how many of those who signed it were motivated by sheer idiocy, sickness and absense of any sort of conscience and how many just wanted to, you know, keep working – Rapist Polanski is wealthy and well-connected, after all. Anyhow, whatever the motives, all those who signed that abominable petition are sad pathetic excuses for human beings. I am extremely annoyed at seeing Asia Argento on that list – not only was she my favorite actress (prior to this), oddly, my cousin and I look just like her. Now I hate something I used to really like – my face
I just went to imdb and it turns out John Cassavettes (Mia’s husband in that crappy movie) is dead! For 20 years now! Where have I been? That means everyone that was in The Dirty Dozen is dead. Well except for Ernest Borgnine, Donald Sutherland, Clint Walker, Jim Brown, and George Kennedy. So yeah everybody.
Fortunate_Son, are you a moron? Liberals do not, as a mass group, believe that ‘child rape = ok’. A handful of Hollywood celebs are trotting out some deeply worrying defence of Polanski, but you know what? They don’t actually represent all people who don’t identify themselves as conservatives. Try viewing the world in a way that doesn’t make massive sweeping assumptions about millions of people.
Polanski should have been properly prosecuted at the time, he should not be lauded as if his actions do not matter. I don’t give a damn how good his movies may be, I don’t watch movies made by a child rapist. Running a red light is not a reason to drum someone out of a profession, a sex crime against a child is.
Sheesh, is Weinstein a Scientologist? He sounds like Tom Cruise saying that only Scientologists are capable of helping at a car crash (and saving the world from itself).
BB, I agree that this should not be an issue between liberal and conservative, it is just that the ones making the most noise are the liberal celebrities. Unfortunately most people paint everyone with a broad brush and it happens to be on both sides of the political spectrum. Democrats call republicans republitards (I find this rather amusing considering most liberals consider themselves to be more compassionate yet they use a term that is based on retard, an offensive term for the mentally challenged) because they are all ignorant, evil, lack compassion, kill bunnys and drink their blood, etc. Republicans call democrats demoquacks because they are all nuts, socialists – if not communist – etc.
If you believe one thing that your chosen party believes in apparently you believe everything that even the fringe elements beleive. Is it true? no. Is it fair? no.
P.S. Let’s go to The View website (after taking anti-nausea pills) and ask Whoopi things like, “Is it OK for me to steal your car, as long as I don’t steal-steal it?” :-p
BB I guess my point is that is why I don’t identify with any party or conservative/liberal. I kinda pick and chose what I like. Liberal on some issues, conservative on others. This way I can blame either party and I don’t get offended.
Give me a break Emma, that list is populated solely of Obama donors.
Face it, liberals have chosen “child rape is ok” as their message du jour.
Again, for the voters at home, Conservatives = “child rape is NOT ok”
BB and Emma, where’s the big backlash or even public condemnation of Obama’s brother for raping a thirteen year old girl last year? The MSM has swept this under the rug almost entirely.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/13/world/europe/13samson.html
[Please note that this was an attempted sexual assault. Not that it's irrelevant, but let's please try to be more careful about our rape accusations. -- MGMT.]
I just sent an email to ABC via the “contact us” link complaining about Whoopi’s comment. You have to pick which show from the menu that your letter is about, and I picked The View. When I submitted the letter, an ABC page error came up that said it couldn’t complete the process. Oh ree-hee-hee-hee-leeeey. I’ll bet. I have seen on other sites that forum comments complaining about it have not shown up or are being removed. :-p
Jimmy, don’t forget “dumbocrats” and my personal favorite – “demoncrats”.
BB and Emma, let it go. Every issue at hand turns into the Right vs. the Left issue here, or, more accurately, TEH EVIL LIBERALS vs. Conservatives issue. You’d think all the people on the Left banded together and signed that “Let the rapist go free” petition, then elected Whoopi F***face their President and authorized her to convey “the rape vs. the rape-rape” message, an official liberal agenda apparently, according to some. Christ, people! This isn’t the Right vs. the Left issue. Just because people in the movie business who identify themselves as liberals defend this rapist, doesn’t mean everyone on the Left feels the same way. I, for instance, am not a Conservative or a Republican (I wouldn’t however identify myself as 100% liberal because there is a number of issues I don’t agree with the Left on, but that’s beside the point), yet I think that Polanski belongs in jail for the heinous crime he commited, I’m glad that he was finally caught, and I’m absolutely outraged at the d***heads that are trying to defend him. I’m sure a lot of people who do not consider themselves Conservatives feel the same way. Do you really have to be a Conseravtive to see that what Polanski did was an atrocity, plain and simple, and that he needs to go to jail for what he did?
Christopher – I tend to think most of the truly frightening movies hold up over time. Then again, when I saw the re-release of Alien on the big screen, I nearly tore off my date’s arm, and I’d seen that movie tons of times on DVD before.
Maybe I’ll steer clear of the other ones just to be safe.
What scares me is Weinstein thinks Hollywood has the best moral compass. How out of touch with reality can one person be??
A notorious place of illicit sex, drugs, alcohol abuse, and murder……..among the under 21 set.
Even in its early days with silent films that stuff was going on.
I tried posting a response to BB in the “Whoopi” thread, but each time I click submit, my response doesn’t show up. Not sure if there is a maximum number of posts allowed in one thread.
Strange.
Fortunate_Son – The difference with Obama’s brother is that he is not a high profile movie director who fled justice 30 years ago, all the while flaunting the US and their laws by partying with the dumb-a** supporters of his and raking in millions of dollars. If Obama’s brother did it, he deserves jail too. I don’t care what political bent you have, rape and “rape-rape” are all rape in my book, no matter who you are or how good your movies are.
Thanks to Nati, Jimmy and Emma. I try to stay as apolitical here as possible but someone always has to take it there. While more liberal, I take it issue by issue as well.
So commenters aren’t allowed to post here if they feel that something has a political slant to it in their eyes? I don’t think that Deceiver has any censoring guildelines like that.
Pearce: thats WHY its terrifying, “OH NO, I am never getting that time back, I am now that much closer to dath for the time I spent watching that”
Fortunate_Son: Maybe its just me but “attempted sexual assault” translates to incompetent rapist in my mind, the intent was there, and that’s the biggest factor of guilt in my book.
Petition signed dumb famous people…current as of today–boycott those bastards!
Woody Allen
Wes Anderson
Darren Aronofsky
Jonatham Demme
Stephen Frears
David Lynch
Martin Scorsese
full list:
Fatih Akin, Stephane Allagnon, Woody Allen, Pedro Almodovar, Wes Anderson, Jean-Jacques Annaud, Alexandre Arcady, Fanny Ardant, Asia Argento, Darren Aronofsky, Olivier Assayas, Alexander Astruc, Gabriel Auer, Luc Barnier , Christophe Barratier, Xavier Beauvois , Liria Begeja , Gilles Behat, Jean-Jacques Beineix, Marco Bellochio, Monica Bellucci, Djamel Bennecib, Giuseppe Bertolucci , Patrick Bouchitey, Paul Boujenah, Jacques Bral, Patrick Braoudé, André Buytaers, Christian Carion, Henning Carlsen, Jean-michel Carre, Mathieu Celary, Patrice Chéreau, Elie Chouraqui, Souleymane Cissé, Alain Corneau, Jérôme Cornuau, Miguel Courtois, Dominique Crevecoeur, Alfonso Cuaron, Luc et Jean-Pierre Dardenne, Jonathan Demme, Alexandre Desplat, Rosalinde et Michel Deville, Georges Dybman, Jacques Fansten, Joël Farges, Gianluca Farinelli (Cinémathèque de de Bologne), Etienne Faure, Michel Ferry, Scott Foundas, Stephen Frears, Thierry Frémaux, Sam Gabarski, René Gainville, Tony Gatlif, Costa Gavras, Jean-Marc Ghanassia, Terry Gilliam, Christian Gion, Marc Guidoni, Buck Henry, David Heyman, Laurent Heynemann, Robert Hossein, Jean-Loup Hubert, Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu, Gilles Jacob, Just Jaeckin, Alain Jessua, Pierre Jolivet, Kent Jones (World Cinema Foundation), Roger Kahane, Nelly Kaplan, Wong Kar Waï, Ladislas Kijno, Harmony Korinne, Jan Kounen, Diane Kurys, Emir Kusturica, John Landis, Claude Lanzmann, André Larquié, Vinciane Lecocq, Patrice Leconte, Claude Lelouch, Gérard Lenne, David Lynch, Michael Mann, François Margolin, Jean-PierreMarois, Tonie Marshall, Mario Martone, Nicolas Mauvernay, Radu Mihaileanu, Claude Miller, Mario Monicelli, Jeanne Moreau, Sandra Nicolier, Michel Ocelot, Alexander Payne, Richard Pena (Directeur Festival de NY), Michele Placido, Philippe Radault, Jean-Paul Rappeneau, Raphael Rebibo, Yasmina Reza, Jacques Richard, Laurence Roulet, Walter Salles, Jean-Paul Salomé, Marc Sandberg, Jerry Schatzberg, Julian Schnabel, Barbet Schroeder, Ettore Scola, Martin Scorsese, Charlotte Silvera, Abderrahmane Sissako, Paolo Sorrentino, Guillaume Stirn, Tilda Swinton, Jean-Charles Tacchella, Radovan Tadic, Danis Tanovic, Bertrand Tavernier, Cécile Telerman, Alain Terzian, Pascal Thomas, Giuseppe Tornatore, Serge Toubiana, Nadine Trintignant, Tom Tykwer, Alexandre Tylski, Betrand Van Effenterre, Wim Wenders.
EDIT: new names
Isabelle Adjani
Antoine Aronin
Paul Auster
Morgane Beauverger
Candice Belaisch-Goldchmit
Yamina Benguigui
Pascal Bruckner
Jessika Cohen
Philippe Corbé
Jean-Paul Dayan
Katarina De Meulder
Arielle Dombasle
Nathalie Faucheux
Corinne Figuet
Pierre Forciniti
Louis Garrel
Albert Gauvin
Johanna Gozlan
Davide Homitsu Riboli
Taylor Hackford
Isabelle Huppert
Neil Jordan
Thierry Kamami
Milan Kundera
Gaelle Lancien
Claude Lanzmann
Bernard-Henri Lévy
Sam Mendes
Camille Meyer
Patrick Mimouni
Yann Moix
Mike Nichols
Sandra Nicolier
Marie Nieves Perez Neël
Salman Rushdie
Carine Sarna
Ysabelle Saura Del Pan
William Shawcross
Olivier Soares Barbosa
Steven Soderbergh
Nil Symchowicz
Danièle Thompson
Eugenia Varela Navarro
Diane von Furstenberg
Scott Foundas
Margaret Walker
Elsa Zylberstein
I went to the T-Mobile forums today. There is some Whoopi buzz. I’m going to call them tonight and voice my displeasure. I know she did the ads months ago, but T-Mobile may wish to rethink using those ads. Would they really want a spokesman, excuse me, spokeswoman, that can’t figure rape out? Incidentally, they go from Catherine Zeta Jones to Whoopi? They think I bought their phone because the service was good?
M’eh, today’s sexual assaulter of children is tommorow’s child rapist.
Rape and attempted rape are not too far apart either in my book.
Yes, he’s the brother of the most high profile man in the world who fled justice less than a year ago by giving a false name, all the while flaunting Britain’s laws by nature of his being President Obama’s brother and partying at the $170 million Presidential Inauguration with the Barack Obama.
He’s not only a direct parallel to Polanski, he’s Obama’s worst nightmare, the loose thread that can unravel his loosely knit presidency.
I am glad people like Jewel, Kirstie Alley and John Legend are speaking out against it. Makes me have hope for them. For once, I am glad to be from the same city John Legend grew up in. Rape is rape, regardless of when it happened. For those hollywood people defending him because it happened 30 years ago and he has done his time – bite me. He is still rich and still living free, and for that matter, still breathing. He drugged and raped a 13 year old girl when he was in his 40’s. For that he is an animal and should be put to sleep.
I just hope Leonard Cohen has no skeletons in his closet. I didn’t see his name in the above lists, so that’s good so far.
Angry Army Wife – I’m right behind you. Sexual assult and rape is one of the entertainment industry’s dirty little secrets. The sexual exploitation of girls, young women, and young men it endemic, people seem to become inured to it. This girl was brave to speak out, but you only have to look at the treatment of underaged models – where photographers and agents treat them as playthings with the threat of ending their fledgling careers – to witness a crass attitude to rape and sexual assult. Sexual expolitation linked to the entertainment indusrty should be dragged out into the light, and the people engaged in it should be punished to the full extent of the law.
Reading this list of names, two things strike me; 1) I haven’t heard of most of them – and I quite like art-house films, and 2) the overwhelming majority of the names are male.
Fortunate_Son, telling me that Obama’s half-brother was suspected of attempted sexual assult is, in this arguement, irrelevant. Your claim that liberals think the liberals think that child-rape is ok is not supported by this. I’m not aware that there has been a groundswell of liberal opinion saying that Obama’s brother is a fine, upstanding human being and that he should not be investigated or punished. If he is guilty of the offence that he has been accused of then yes, of course he should be punished. You are clutching at straws when you try to frame sexual assult as a part political issue. A gender political issue, now that is an entirely different matter…
At this rate, I’ll never be able to watch a movie again.
Just because I look to stir the pot, here is a little story that is fairly fresh but hasn’t got a lot of coverage supporting FS’s new mantra of
“Liberals = “Raping kids is ok”
Conservatives = “Raping kids is NOT ok”
http://washingtontimes.com/news/2009/sep/28/at-the-presidents-pleasure/
Not that liberals believe in child rape but you know…just sayin’
(Disclaimer: I despise both parties and believe the party faithfuls are the real reason our country is in the sh*t hole)
Wow, thanks for that list Denise! I’m printing it out. Fortunately there are none of my faves on the list…yet. Mostly unknown (to me) Europeans.
LOL Christopher!
Remember to let Toys R Us know, too, how inappropriate it is for Whoopi to be promoting them. Ugh.
http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/jjmnolte/2009/09/30/whoopi-not-rape-rape-goldberg-child-advocate/
Nice to know that at least a few famous folk have dared to express their disgust with the situation. If you’re going to use your name for something, at least make it worthwhile….
(Hollywood’s moral compass would look something like a weathervane, shaped like a big dollar sign, wouldn’t it?)
barkingmad59: If Hollywood has a moral compass, I can only imagine the directional “pointer” is in the shape of a penis. You can throw dollar signs all around for decoration, but that’s the shape of things in this case.
It was rape. By all definitions and standards: rape. Coercive rape, as compared to a violent bound and gagged rape (is that what you were trying to say Whoopi? You really lost me there.), but rape all the same. As far as extradition and utilizing enormous resources to prosecute after 30 years? You betcha.
Grr, the two German directors I have heard of are on the list. Shame on you, Tom Tykwer (Run Lola Run) and Wim Wenders (Der Himmel Uber Berlin, the movie City of Angels is based on)! Also, Diane von Furstenberg? One of the few fashion people who seemed to have her head sort of straight (she says fashion shouldn’t be taken so seriously), and now she’s proving otherwise. Sam Mendes is married to Kate Winslet, I think. I pity their daughter, and worry for her too. Who knows what Daddy will let people do to her. I know Jeanne Moreau is French, but I didn’t think she was stupid. Most of the people I recognize on the list, I am not surprised to see on there, but these names (other than Sam Mendes, I think I knew he was a little odd) did a little.
Salman Rushdie lost every bit of sympathy I had for him over the fatwa. I generally don’t approve of killing or punishing people for their views or beliefs, but okaying child rape negates my ability to pity you. Doesn’t deserve to die, but doesn’t deserve any comfort from society either.
Banish them all!
Re: Obama’s half-brother. He shouldn’t have been granted US visa. It’s an absolute outrage that he was. US Immigration generally doesn’t care if it was an “alleged” crime, they don’t care whether you were convicted or acquitted, as long as you were arrested (unless it was politically motivated), as long as criminal charges were filed against you (in any country of the world), they might (and almost always do) deny you the entry into the US. And yes, an attempt (even a failed attempt) or a conspiracy to commit a crime aslo count. “Innocent until proven guilty” doesn’t apply here – they are not taking any chances. Usually. So it’s infuriating that he was granted US visa after he was refused British visa with the US gov’t being fully aware of his arrest and the charges brought against him in the UK. No one should be above the law.
Incidentally, bwahahaha@Salman Rushdie on that list.
I think Darren Aronofsky is Rachel Weisz’s SO.
You know, I think my husband’s right. We were talking about this a day or two ago, and he pointed out that these pampered cretins are actually making it easier for us to avoid their products by signing that asinine petition. I’ve always enjoyed David Lynch’s work (well, enjoyed may not be the word, exactly) but I won’t be doing so in future. I doubt it will make one iota of difference to him, but it will to me.
I’ve read somewhere on the net they should rename the “Free Polanski” petition the “I am officially a creep” petition. Couldn’t agree more. And yeah, it’s very dissapointing and disturbing to see all those people sign that petition – many of those who signed are good actors, talented filmmakers whom I used to like (until now). A lot of my favorite actors are on that list – Asia Argento, Gael Garcia Bernal, Monica Bellucci, Penelope, the two Isabelles – Adjani and Huppert…My favorite designer Sonia Rykiel is on that list…Sad. And the list keeps getting bigger. Luc Besson btw is one of those few who have refused to sign this petition.
P.S. Salman Rushdie should have his knighthood revoked. A man who thinks that it’s okay to drug and rape children does not deserve to be called “Sir”.
Oh, look at that…I forgot “that” (in the first sentence).
Frey’s response to Polanski documentary co- producer Michelle Sullivan’s many ’sock puppet’ comments is worth reading. As one commenter noted you don’t bring a ‘blunt knife to an intellectual gunfight’.
http://patterico.com/2009/10/04/associate-producer-of-polanski-documentary-spams-this-blog-with-multiple-anonymous-comments-attacking-me/
That’s a good one, Jenn!
For those who missed the above, a producer on Roman Polanski’s “Excuse” film lambastes the DA in anonymous blog posts, only to be discovered.
Also, Roman Polanski with Chris Hanson of Dateline below:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E41XkUXg2a0&feature=player_embedded
First of all…. Obama… IS NOT A LIBERAL. He is a Democrat. If he was a liberal then all the stuff he promised would actually be moving right along right now.
Liberal is more of an open-minded escape option of not having to choose Democrat or Republican.
Democrat would = doesn’t get shit done.
Republican would = living in the stone age and corrupt.
Oh wait. They are BOTH corrupt and they HANG OUT TOGETHER.
Yeah.
So THIS issue has nothing to do with politics. And you are a moron, if you are a person that wants to classify EVERYONE in the ENTIRE PLANET as all thinking the same damn thing because a bunch of Europeans that moved to Hollywood and became actors have no problemo with this Polansky thing.
You know what – I’m a damn Independent (Liberal even probably) and I think he should fry.
Second, I’d like to point out that most of the idiots that signed that petition are looking for work and are from EUROPE. You know in Romania it’s legal to screw the brains out of little girls – even ones related to you!
That’s why all those idiots are signing it. Because they grew up thinking that type of thing was ok. (Shit I met a disgusting person that immigrated from Europe that still thinks it’s ok and that the “crazy prude Americans will just let it slide” if they wanna try to do it here…. Mind you these are people with NO power/money/clout.)
Third, another reason they could be signing it could have to do with the fact that the victim is showing up at Roman’s little celebration things. WTF is with that. I’m sorry but if I were his victim I would NOT EVER WANT TO HEAR HIS NAME AGAIN OR SEE HIM AGAIN let alone show up at documentaries about him etc.
But even if the victim and mother WERE trying to start her career ala Jamie Lynn Spears… OR they were genuinely just too trusting…. ROMAN STILL KNEW BETTER. He was a 44 year old man, he knew the laws in America. He knew it was illegal.
AND
You can’t really make a case for “oh but she had sex with people before and she knew she was trying to seduce me to have stardom” when you admit to DRUGGING the victim.
If she was so “experienced” already then you wouldn’t need to drug her huh?
I’m sure it made it easier for her to accept and move on from if she was not a virgin, but rape is still a horrible violation that destroys someone’s comfort level in intimate relationships for many years afterwards and is pretty much equal to torture in my mind.
So yeah here’s someone that’s generally liberal and I THINK HE SHOULD FRY.
Now please stop assuming everyone thinks the same (and P.S. I personally yell at anyone that uses some version of “retard” or “gay” or “fag” because I find it immature and offensive.)