Some of you ladies sure seem pretty upset over this Roman Polanski rape (or whatever it was, maybe actual rape-rape) thing: "Maybe you aren't aware-and really, thanks to author Robert Harris for pointing this out in today's New York Times-that 'Mr. Polanski's own young children, to whom he is a doting father, want him home.' If you had known that, surely you would have forgiven him by now. If he's not around to raise his kids, who would prevent them from getting raped by good people?"
fuck roman polanski.
or should i say, drug and sodomize roman polanski.
Straight up. Maybe someone should explain to his kids what daddy did.
Give him time. He'll show them himself.
Well, Woody Allen signed a petition to release him... so that's good right?
heh, that's funny.
why do i think you're not joking?
Because your irony detector is low on batteries and acting flaky?
here's the list
http://www.indiewire.com/article/over_100_in_film_community_sign_polanski_petition/P1/
et tu Martin Scorcese?
Irony doesn't read well on the internet.
Shut your mouth, cworee sit-cha!
Now I'm wondering if brad [#1678] was asking if Abe was joking about Woody signing the petition or that Woody's signature is a good thing.
And now I read his clarification below...
about the existence of the petition you monkeys.
Oh, see above, I wasn't.
yes, i see that now. a petition. signed by woody allen. if you had made it up, i would have scoffed at its unbelievability. 'over the top' i would have said.
AND Wes Fantastic Mr. Fox Anderson. Wonder if he can make rape twee and adorable too.
You know who didn't sign that petition? WERNER HERZOG.
He's not going to be on a list with all those assholes. Hacks, the lot of them.
How does Uwe Boll feel about this? It could be a defining moment.(Finally, one that doesn't involve boxing with critics.) The saloon doors of respectability are flapping wide enough here for even him to sneak in.
This is re-goddamned-dick-ulous!!!!
Dear lord I though the linked post was sincere for a good few paragraphs there.
That's why it's so great! It's the slow burn.
The guy who wrote the Third Eye Blind thing now understands how Balk feels about the Summer Of Death thing.
is 'doting' some sort of euphemism?
It must have been a real strain, everyone being so mad about this for the last 30 years.
No the strain is now that they caught the fucker a bunch of bitch ass Directors and others want him to get off... does this include you?
Yes.
Seriously. I feel like everyone adult at the time just sort of got over it, then a new generation saw the movie, and now it's basically like he 'just did it'. He's probably like "WTF, you guys?"
So then I guess child rape has a shelf life, The Ninth gate wasn't that good.
This is weird, I got what you were saying Fred and I said Child Rape not fucking that's at least a little different.
since I can't reply below I'd like to know your reasoning.
Ugg that was for NicFit fred.
I can't reply to your reply to my comment, and I know this reply is not to me, but I'm going to reply here (reply):
I'm not defending him or 'child fucking' as I believe you put it. Just that it must be weird to be called a piece of shit for something you thought you put behind you. My comment was meant to pass no judgment on either side, y'all.
Harmony Korine thinks Roman suffered enough.
He also thinks there is something worthy about David Blaine.
I get pissed too when there's no one around to give me free ludes.
John Wayne Gacy is an artist too. Where's the clamor for his release?
You're going to need a shovel.
Wait a minute. He's not in Insane Clown Posse?
"And in my best behavior, I am really just like him. Look beneath the floorboards, for the secrets I have hid."
Jag 312, my children listen to that song in the car and I don't know what to say to them.
After the dust settles on this whole kerfuffle, the one good thing that will come out of it will be the worldwide acknowledgment that 'International Film Festivals = Sancutary.'
We can all sleep better once we know that our greatest auteurs can travel (all expenses paid) to a scenic locale where they will be showered with praise by people who want to be in their next movies and given a small statue with their name engraved on it without fear of being arrested on international warrants.
Tuna, that's a huge relief. The danger of movie folks being arrested at international film festivals has really been keeping me up nights lately.
Since the signatories on that petition are so steadfast in their belief that the drugging and raping of 13 year old kids is something to be poo poo'd they should have no problems with their names being given out at prisons around the country. There are a number of convicted child rapists that would just love to get letters of support from people of that caliber so they can present them at their next parole hearing.
Oh, get off it. For fuck's sake the amount of violent/sanctimonious rhetoric around this issue is off the charts.
I'll be sanctimonious all day long towards some bond jumping child raper who thinks he's above the law because of his celebrity. If he had taken care of his business 30 years ago no one would be talking about this today. At the end of the day Polanski is to blame for everything happening to him.
"If there is ever something that deserves 'violent' sanctimony, then kiddy-rape is it." -- Anonymous Wisconsin prisoners that beat Jeffrey Dahmer to death on the way back from chow.
Oh, it wasn't anonymous. it was a "work of god"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Scarver
The more his connected friends jump to his defense and dismiss what he did the more time people are going to feel he should get. If they had stayed out of it he would have been brought back, worked out some deal that got him a year or two because of his age and everyone involved would have agreed to never speak of it again.
Abe -- there is a lot of speculation that there were other participants. It would not be easy for one guy to beat two dudes to death.
Oh yes. I think he was the one IDed as the guy who did Dahmer though. Also: This conspiracy: "My name's Robert, and I was just released from C.C.I in Portage WI. I was in there when he was. I was in unit 5, and he was in the smurf unit which is now called unit 6. I was working in the gym the day he was killed, and let me tell you, he was dead way before he ever left the prison. After he was beaten, it took the nurse over 40 min to get some outside help in there. I even remember an officer saying he was glad Dahmer got "fucked up." He was also beaten with a preacher bar (a part of the weight machine) and not a broom. That's the reason we don't have free weights no more in Wisconsin prisons.
I'll also tell you this, I believe his death was an inside job, because in the gym where the officers stay, they can see into the locker room, and when we would clean, there would have to be at least one officer watching us. That day, all 4 officers where in the bathroom!!!! After Cris killed him and the other guy, he just walked back to his room and locked himself in. They didn't even come to get him out of his room until the next day!!!! That's when they brought him to ds1(the hole) and out of nowhere, this broke bastard who could never buy anything off of canteen, had $100.00 pop up on his account. And this is the best part. @ of the officers that were working in the gym that day retired a few months later. And they were only in their 40's." True? Who knows.
You know, Nic, I totally agree with you. It's a good chance to flex your sanctimony muscles, which the ironically-detached don't often get to do. But RAPE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
RAPE IS RAPE IS RAPE IS RAPETY RAPETY 40 YEAR OLD MAN 13 YEAR OLD GIRL RAPETY FUGITIVE FROM JUSTICE RAPETY RAPE RAPE RAPE CASTRATION RAPE WHAT IF IT WAS YOUR DAUGHTER HOW WOULD YOU FEEL RAPE RAPE RAPE!!!!!!!!!!
Ooooooooh Let's all play A Time to Kill game where I tell this story about a celebrated director who raped a 13 year old BUT THEN IN THE END HE WAS A REPUBLICAN CONGRESSMAN... I'm sure all would be cool 30 years later... right.... right.... anyone?
I don't know if anyone wants this obviously talented human being killed...Just raped anally. So if we can change the name of the game to 'A Time to Rape Anally' than I'm all in, though I understand this undercuts some of what you intended.
Best point ever.
I blame sexecutive Demi Moore ala 'Disclosure.'
This whole thing is like when the cops trick people and say 'you won a 46" LCD panel t.v, please come and pick it up today' and when you go to pick it up thinking to yourself in your head 'boy this 46" t.v. is surely going to get me laid' and then the next thing you know they burst that whole bubble by arresting you. It's like that except for Roman wasn't waiting in a room wondering why everyone else who won a t.v. looked soooo sketchy but, I'm sure they were having a pretty good laugh at his expense all the same.
Please tell me this whole thing is a marketing ploy for a Swiss version of 'To Catch a Predator'. I hear they do things pretty big over there.
They ever offered him some iced tea.
The one episode were the seriously deranged looking ped won't stop eating cookies even after the gig is up is a personal favorite. Those cookies must be INSANE.
i remember the only episode i saw. they featured an obviously mentally handicapped individual who was in for his second meet and greet with mr. hansen. the show didn't bother to comment on the condition of this individual, the fact that he was caught again or that he quite clearly didn't understand what he was doing was wrong.
just an ad for toothpaste afterwards.
Kind of a Jezzie sausagefest in here
But with a weird "LET'S RAPE PEOPLE IN RETALIATION" edge.
So macho!
...or 'Training Day' when Denzel threatens to cut the guys ding off and put it in his own but kind of edge.
LIKE IN PRISON!!!!
well, i didn't mean literally drug and sodomize him. although i like his sandy hair.
I just think Killing him is a bit too severe.
I would like to come out firmly against any sort of sanctioned punitive violence, be it rape or murder. Just drop his little ass in general population in your neighborhood state pen and let nature take its course.
Every thread in Jezebel would have a "let's rape in retaliation" edge if chicks had penises.
@lacieca -yes
The real question is, who's got more muscle: The Swiss or Harvey Weinstein?
If you said more weight the answer would be obvious.
Heh heh...
Holy shit. this is really some sort of secret struggle between Weinstein and Switzerland. Real talk.
A 33 year old Fargo man was just arrested here today for having sex with a 14 year old girl. He's going to prison for 20 years. So... you know...
Did he at least get some anal?
but what does pedro almovodar think?
I'm still waiting for Polanski to advocate for the release of Charlie Manson. Poor fella. That all went down years ago, and I'm sure Roman's ready to put it all behind him. After all, Charlie's an artist! Guns 'n Roses even recorded one of his songs!
Ha!
I would like to add that the left is advocating for the prosecution of potentially illegal torture during the Bush admin... so... How exactly can one be for that and for amnesty for Polanski....
Thank you! Because that is the exact equivalent!
I can never tell when you're being sarcastic.
The true administration of justice is the firmest pillar of good government. Let them swing to the left, let them swing to the right, let Ticketmaster bring it to the people.
My, my! What a mess!
Bro pled guilty back in the day, so there's really no here or there about whether or not he did it, and since the verdict was already handed down regarding all the gross, twisted shit he did, so that's really not up for renegotiation. He set himself up to get a pretty sweet plea bargain, and should probably serve the time he would have gotten for that originally, and perhaps a tad more for being a self-important d-bag who thought he was too good to do a year or two in the pokey.
He may even live to make more self-important movies.
What he did was terrible, but I'm frankly shocked that anybody is surprised that he'll probably get away with a slap on the wrist despite being a fugitive for 30 years (and the whole child-raping thing). Don't we already know that famous people can pretty much do whatever the fuck they want? Except Phil Spector, but basically everyone else.
aw, this is so reasonable and true.
can i join the PRISON RAPE IS NOT ACTUALLY FUNNY NOR IS IT A GOOD THING team? which corner do i sit in for that?
I don't know, the Internet Commenters for Taste and Responsibility in Internet Commenting rode off on their High Horse hours ago, I think they might be meeting in a post later today.
my righteous indignation tank is running very low today- drained by the sweet mysteries of gin coupled with tonic.
besides, i saw a movie about prison rape and it looked pretty hot.
After all, if high and mighty Roman were to submit himself to the judgment and punishment of the law...that would be like him getting fucked in the ass without his consent or something.