Infamous and award-winning director Roman Polanski may not be able to show his face let alone step foot in the United States without being arrested, but he is no longer in hiding and has been stepping out in the high-class French social scene.
Have you heard this one yet? Woody Allen thinks Roman Polanski should be left alone for the decades-old sex crime that currently has him under house arrest in Gstaad, Switzerland. According to Allen, Polanski "was embarrassed by the whole thing," "has suffered," and is "an artist and is a nice person" who "did something wrong and he paid for it." So there you go. Of course the irony and the humor in this statement is that it is completely what you would expect to come out of his mouth given Allen's own career-tainting sex scandal. You know, the whole affair and eventual marriage to his adopted daughter. But as the bespectacled said recently, "One must have one's delusions to live. If you look at life too honestly and too clearly life does become unbearable because it's a pretty grim enterprise."
Just a few weeks after a California appeals court denied without comment a petition by victim Samantha Geimer to dismiss the three-decade-old sex case against the director, Roman Polanski is speaking out about "being served on a platter to the media" for his 1977 unlawful sexual intercourse conviction. Originally indicted on six felony counts (to include rape by use of drugs, child molesting and sodomy), Polanski fled the United States in 1978 the day before his sentencing. His victim, Ms. Geimer, has repeatedly asked that the case be dismissed. "I can no longer remain silent," says Polanski in a posting on French philosopher Bernard-Henri Levy's website. And has "decided to break my silence in order to address myself directly to you without any intermediaries and in my own words." He wants it to end. She wants it to end. So what's the problem? Goes the conventional wisdom behind his post, which places blame for the renewed interest in his case squarely on the 2008 documentary Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired and election-year media whoring on the District Attorney's part.
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