Contactmusic Ltd (Free subscription) | yesterday
ROMAN POLANSKI has found himself at the centre of a new conflict between his legal representatives after his Los Angeles attorneys chastised his French lawyer for discussing...
I Luv SA (Free subscription) | 22/11/2009
You have to wonder about Roman Polanski wanting to get out of raping a 13 year old in 1977 when he produced this movie in 1965.
Cele|bitchy (Free subscription) | yesterday
A few weeks ago I mentioned that while I used to really like Natalie Portman, every single thing she’s been doing or saying lately has been grating on my nerves. From her interviews, to her defense of Roman Polanski, to her “eating a steak is equivalent to rape” vegan/vegetarian stance, I’m totally over her. [...]
The New Yorker (Free subscription) | yesterday
The other day, Francesco Vezzoli, an Italian artist known for his meta-spectacles—an advertisement for a fake perfume called Greed, directed by Roman Polanski; a trailer for a fictional remake of Gore Vidal’s “Caligula,” with him and Courtney Love sharing the title role— . . .
giallo fever (Free subscription) | 22/11/2009
[Note that this review contains spoilers] The Vampire Happening is, to all intents and purposes, a contemporary re-make / rip-off of Roman Polanski's Dance of the Vampires , with a modish late 1960s happening substituting for the vampire's annual ball. The filmmakers freely acknowledge their inspiration through the casting of Ferdinand Mayne as the head vampire, here none other than Dracula himself,...
DVD Talk (Free subscription) | 22/11/2009
Rent It THE MOVIE: Few true crime tales have so fascinated filmmakers as the 1969 Tate/LaBianca murders, from the two TV movies of Helter Skelter to the grindhouse and exploitation "dramatizations" to numerous documentaries dating back to the 1973 Oscar nominee Manson . And it is, no doubt, a dramatic story, symbolizing (for many) the bloody end of the hippie era and a shocking example of...
Digital Spy (Free subscription) | 21/11/2009
Roman Polanski's lawyer confirms that the film director will fight plans to send him back to the US.
I Luv SA (Free subscription) | 21/11/2009
By David Saks The late Irving Kristol once defined a liberal as someone who, upon witnessing a fourteen-year-old girl engaging in a live sex act, worries about whether she is getting the minimum wage. It was the same Kristol who described a neo-conservative as a liberal who has been “mugged by reality”. Kristol himself is widely regarded as neo-conservatism’s foremost intellectuals,...
Reuters UK (Free subscription) | 21/11/2009
PARIS/LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - A French attorney for Roman Polanski who said the film director would not return voluntarily to the United States to face child sex charges is not authorized to speak in the case, Polanski's U.S. attorneys said on Friday.
Reuters (Free subscription) | 21/11/2009
PARIS/LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - A French attorney for Roman Polanski who said the film director would not return voluntarily to the United States to face child sex charges is not authorized to speak in the case, Polanski's U.S. attorneys said on Friday.
Business Wire (Free subscription) | 21/11/2009
LOS ANGELES--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Roman Polanski has learned of many press reports relating the pending case in California and to the extradition proceedings in Switzerland which contain statements by lawyers in France. These statements were not authorized by Mr. Polanski. The French lawyers do not represent him in the case and do not speak for him about it. The lawyers representing Mr. Polanski in the...
Once Upon a Time... (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
I've followed all the debatifying about the decision to prosecute five (ALLEGED!) 9/11 co-conspirators in federal court with weary, muffled resignation. Yes, I know "debatifying" isn't, like, a real word. Since almost everyone else is making shit up, I don't see any reason why I shouldn't. Thank God we have a new controversy, eh wot? All those earlier ones were getting mighty tired. Remember...
Cele|bitchy (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
Roman Polanski’s lawyer just gave an interview detailing the status of Polanski’s extradition and imprisonment in Switzerland. The lawyer, Herve Temime, also claims that Polanski’s wife, Emmanuelle Seigner, two children Morgane and Elvis are “very upset psychologically by this separation that is a true heartbreak”. Well… I’m not going to mock the problems...
PopEater Music Blog (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
Filed under: Highbrow Celebrities , Movie News , Celebrity Scandal The wife and two children of Roman Polanski are bearing the brunt of the director's imprisonment in Switzerland as he awaits a decision on his extradition, his lawyer said in an interview to be published Friday. Polanski has proposed "very ... Read more Permalink | Email this | Linking Blogs | Comments
Baltimore Sun (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
The wife and two children of Roman Polanski are bearing the brunt of the director's imprisonment in Switzerland as he awaits a decision on his extradition, his lawyer said in an interview to be published Friday.
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