Posts tagged as Roman Polanski

Roman Polanski Cut Loose By Swiss

Alex Balk | July 12, 2010

In a bit of terrific news for anyone who was worried that there might not be enough to argue about on the Internet this week, Switzerland has rejected the U.S. government's request to extradite director Roman Polanski on his 1977 rape charge. It seems like decades since that this whole thing went down (Polanski's Swiss detention, not the actual crime), but it was actually less than a year ago. Now I guess we'll never be able to determine if it was rape or rape-rape. [Image via]

"There really is a special sound of a key turning in a lock in an empty room."

Alex Balk | October 28, 2009

Jenny Diski's latest Diary column for the London Review of Books is something you should probably read.

Roman Polanski: Yes, Why Do Bad Things Happen to Good People?

Choire Sicha | September 30, 2009

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?"