Poman Polasnki pled guilty to drugging and raping a 13 year old girl in 1977. Rather than face his time, he fled and has been a fugitive for over thirty years.
Now, thirty years later, he’s been nabbed in Switzerland. He’ll be extradited and sent to prison if all goes well. Some Hollywood types seem to think drugging and raping a thirteen year old girl’s not that big a deal. The primary person who feels that way is, get this, Woody Allen. Here are some of the others on that list:
- Faith Akin
- Stephane Allagnon
- Woody Allen
- Pedro Almodovar
- Wes Anderson
- Jean-Jacques Annaud
- Alexandre Arcady
- Fanny Ardant
- Asia Argento
- Darren Aronofsky
- Olivier Assayas
- Alexander Astruc
- Gabriel Auer
- Luc Barnier
- Christophe Barratier
- Xavier Beauvois
- Liria Begeja
- Gilles Behat
- Jean-Jacques Beineix
- Marco Bellochio
- Monica Bellucci
- Djamel Bennecib
- Giuseppe Bertolucci
- Patrick Bouchitey
- Paul Boujenah
- Jacques Bral
- Patrick Braoudé
- André Buytaers
- Christian Carion
- Henning Carlsen
- Jean-michel Carre
- Mathieu Celary
- Patrice Chéreau
- Elie Chouraqui
- Souleymane Cissé
- Alain Corneau
- Jérôme Cornuau
- Miguel Courtois
- Dominique Crevecoeur
- Alfonso Cuaron
- Luc Dardenne
- Jean-Pierre Dardenne
- Jonathan Demme
- Alexandre Desplat
- Rosalinde Deville
- Michel Deville
- Georges Dybman
- Jacques Fansten
- Joël Farges
- Gianluca Farinelli
- Etienne Faure
- Michel Ferry
- Scott Foundas
- Stephen Frears
- Thierry Frémaux
- Sam Gabarski
- René Gainville
- Tony Gatlif
- Costa Gavras
- Jean-Marc Ghanassia
- Terry Gilliam
- Christian Gion
- Marc Guidoni
- Buck Henry
- David Heyman
- Laurent Heynemann
- Robert Hossein
- Jean-Loup Hubert
- Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
- Gilles Jacob
- Just Jaeckin
- Alain Jessua
- Pierre Jolivet
- Kent Jones
- Roger Kahane
- Nelly Kaplan
- Wong Kar Waï
- Ladislas Kijno
- Harmony Korinne
- Jan Kounen
- Diane Kurys
- Emir Kusturica
- John Landis
- Claude Lanzmann
- André Larquié
- Vinciane Lecocq
- Patrice Leconte
- Claude Lelouch
- Gérard Lenne
- David Lynch
- Michael Mann
- François Margolin
- Jean-PierreMarois
- Tonie Marshall
- Mario Martone
- Nicolas Mauvernay
- Radu Mihaileanu
- Claude Miller
- Mario Monicelli
- Jeanne Moreau
- Sandra Nicolier
- Michel Ocelot
- Alexander Payne
- Richard Pena Michele Placido
- Philippe Radault
- Jean-Paul Rappeneau
- Raphael Rebibo
- Yasmina Reza
- Jacques Richard
- Laurence Roulet
- Walter Salles
- Jean-Paul Salomé
- Marc Sandberg
- Jerry Schatzberg
- Julian Schnabel
- Barbet Schroeder
- Ettore Scola
- Martin Scorsese
- Charlotte Silvera
- Abderrahmane Sissako
- Paolo Sorrentino
- Guillaume Stirn
- Tilda Swinton
- Jean-Charles Tacchella
- Radovan Tadic Danis Tanovic,
- Bertrand Tavernier
- Cécile Telerman
- Alain Terzian
- Pascal Thomas
- Giuseppe Tornatore
- Serge Toubiana
- Nadine Trintignant
- Tom Tykwer
- Alexandre Tylski
- Betrand Van Effenterre
- Wim Wenders
- Isabelle Adjani
- antoine Aronin
- Paul Auster
- Morgane Beauverger
- Candice Belaisch-Goldchmit
- Yamina Benguigui
- Pascal Bruckner
- Jessika Cohen
- Philippe Corbé
- Jean-Paul Dayan
- Katarina De Meulder
- Arielle Dombasle
- Nathalie Faucheux
- Corinne Figuet
- Pierre Forciniti
- Louis Garrel
- Albert Gauvin
- Johanna Gozlan
- Davide Homitsu Riboli
- Taylor Hackford
- Isabelle Ruppert
- Neil Jordan
- Thierry Kamami
- Milan Kundera
- Gaelle Lancien
- Claude Lanzmann
- Bernard-Henri Lévy
- Sam Mendes
- Camille Meyer
- Patrick Mimouni
- Yann Moix
- Mike Nichols
- Sandra Nicolier
- Marie Nieves
- Perez Neël
- Salman Rushdie
- Carine Sarna
- Ysabelle Saura Del Pan
- William Shawcross
- Olivier Soares Barbosa
- Steven Soderbergh
- Nil Symchowicz
- Danièle Thompson
- Eugenia Varela Navarro
- Diane von Furstenberg
- Scott Foundas
- Margaret Walker
- Elsa Zylberstein
And why do you suppose so many movie people think Polanski’s rape conviction should be dropped? Why, because he’s one of them. Ain’t that just special?
* For what it’s worth, Hollywood’s getting the brunt of criticism because of Woody Allen and Martin Scorsese I’m sure. However, a huge majority of these people are not US citizens. As such, they may not realize just how seriously we take child molestation and rape in the United States.
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