Roman Polanski will walk out of his Swiss prison cell any day now on a $4.5 million bail. So what does house arrest mean for a man with a chalet in Gstaad? According to press reports, party at Polanski's!
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It sounds crazy, but a new report about French President Nicolas Sarkozy's "helpfulness" in getting Roman Polanski released to house arrest seems to suggest the possibility of a daring action-movie escape for the 72-year-old fugitive filmmaker.
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Emma Thompson was on The View today to talk about her admirable work fighting sex trafficking. Strangely, the ladies didn't ask her about another case of sexual exploitation—the one Roman Polanski perpetrated and Thompson initially appeared to endorse. More »
The world is made up of strangers. Due to proximity and luck, we get various opportunities to make a handful of these strangers into friends or acquaintances. We fill the empty spaces with people we "know" only from a distance.
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Potentially bad news for Roman Polanski (plus everyone who saw the 2008 documentary about him and has thus been squawking "judicial misconduct!" all week, as though that made him not a rapist): The prosecutor involved in said misconduct lied.
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On The View today, Whoopi Goldberg re-iterated her desire to simply get Polanski's legal charges straight, but never addressed her "rape-rape" comments. Then she dismissed reports that she was molested, saying "the only person who molested me was me."
"Does being an 'artist' trump being a rapist?" asks Melissa Silverstein of Women & Hollywood. According to 138 people in the film industry who signed a petition demanding the immediate release of Roman Polanski from Swiss custody, yep! More »
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