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HBO's Roman Polanski Problem A crucial scene of a celebrated documentary turns out to be wrong. By Kim Masters Updated Monday, June 9, 2008, at 11:51 AM ET
Roman Polanski. Click image to expandRoman PolanskiRewind: Tonight, HBO airs Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired, a documentary that, according to the HBO press materials, raises "lasting questions about the U.S. legal system." Without being exactly sympathetic to Polanski, the message of the film is clear: The courts did to him what he did to a 13-year-old girl in 1977. Print This ArticlePRINTDiscuss in the FrayDISCUSSEmail to a FriendE-MAILGet Slate RSS FeedsRSSShare This ArticleRECOMMEND...Single PageSINGLE PAGE Yahoo! BuzzFacebook FacebookPost to MySpace!MySpaceMixx MixxDigg DiggReddit RedditDel.icio.us del.icio.usFurl FurlMa.gnolia.com Ma.gnoliaSphere SphereStumble UponStumbleUponCLOSE
Marina Zenovich's documentary was well-received at Sundance and at Cannes. But the film to be broadcast tonight differs in one key respect from the version that those audiences saw. The ending has been changed apparently because it was wrong.
The final shot of the film that was seen at the festivals and reviewed by critics asserts that Polanski, who fled the United States in 1978, considered returning in 1998 but declined because the court seemed poised to screw him again. That shot was altered after the Los Angeles Superior Court took the step of contacting HBO's lawyers.
No one seems to take issue with the film's premise that the judge who originally presided over Polanski's case, Laurence Rittenband, was obsessed with the media and far less obsessed with honoring his word. Both prosecutor Roger Gunson and defense attorney Douglas Dalton say on the record that Rittenband reneged on agreements that could have resolved the case. Rittenband died in 1994, so he's certainly in no position to take issue with that portrayal.
But Zenovich concludes her film on an ironic note: In 1997, those two attorneys appeared before a sitting Los Angeles Superior Court judge not named in the film and reached an agreement that if Polanski returned to the United States, he would not be taken into custody. At the very end, the film states in white letters dramatically typed on a black background, the judge imposed one condition: The proceedings would have to be televised. The obvious implication: Here we go again, another Los Angeles judge poised to turn Polanski into media chum. Polanski, the film reports, turned the deal down.
But it doesn't seem to have happened that way.
There was a 1998 meeting with the judge, who was Larry Paul Fidler. He presided over the recent Phil Spector murder trial, and in that case, he allowed the cameras to roll. Spector's case was the first criminal trial televised in its entirety in a Los Angeles Superior Court since the O.J. Simpson case in 1995. That may be why Fidler was sensitive to the film's implication that he was another media-obsessed jurist.
But Los Angeles Superior Court spokesman Allan Parachini says Judge Fidler unequivocally denies that he imposed any such condition. "Judge Fidler made it very clear to counsel that any ultimate resolution of the Polanski matter could only occur in open court, on the record. There was no discussion about television coverage," Parachini says.
Parachini's office got in touch with HBO (as did we), and on Friday, HBO said that it was altering the documentary to reflect "new information" provided by the court. That must have been quite a scramble for something that airs tonight, especially since the allegation in question is kind of the film's punch line. HBO which also will have to fix prints that are headed to theaters in July did not say exactly how the revised ending will go. But presumably Fidler can relax.
Except that, inevitably, the film's premise is already well-established, since many outlets have already reported on it. A New York Times review from critic Manohla Dargis calls the film "sharply argued" before concluding: "Mr. Polanski survived the Holocaust and the murder of his wife, Sharon Tate, in 1969 by followers of Charles Manson. It was the American legal system that almost did him in."
In its coverage, the British Telegraph said "the legal shenanigans surrounding the case have continued in California," citing the supposed requirement that the trial be televised. And the paper argued that Polanski, meanwhile, has "lived a blameless, hard-working life in exile in France." Meanwhile, Polanki has expressed the view that he is innocent, that Americans are "prudish," and that he has "suffered enough." (link)

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Wow! Nabokov sees Polanski as his hero. Maybe Nabokov sees OJ Simpson as another hero. Nabokov makes my skin crawl, just as Polanski did. I think Polanski is doing just fine out of this country and that is where he should stay. There are killers on death row who have been forgiven by the murdered victims relatives, but that does not mean they should be let off. Maybe the gentlemen who thinks the charges should be dropped because P is a "genius", would like it if the same thing happened to his 12 or 13 year old daughter. He'd say, oh just forget about it. There is only one person responsible for this crime and it's P. Actually some said the Nazi heirarchy were geniuses, so should they have been forgiven for their crimes?
the age of consent should be 13 in the U.S. It used to be 12. In Spain it's still 13. This country is so puritanical! Also Polanski is a genius, so drop the charges. Yes, geniuses should be given special treatment.

'Kapo' Polanski's Holocaust profits Posted: January 03, 2003 1:00 am Eastern
By Judith Reisman 2009 WorldNetDaily.com
The full-page ad in the Dec. 29 New York Times says Roman Polanski's "The Pianist" is the Golden Globe nominee for "Best Picture" of the year. "Two Thumbs Up!" shout Ebert & Roeper, while Newsweek, the New York Observer and the San Francisco Society of Film Critics all sing out their glory, glory for "A Roman Polanski film." Establishment filmdom (via Polanski) serves up yet again another Jewish Holocaust special. But, one senses a deep, dark, sinister reason for Polanski's profitable Holocaust film. One suspects Polanski to be conjuring up visions of murdered Jews as a smoke screen to shift their bloodied martyrdom onto himself, using the Holocaust as a shovel to bury the public memory of his own crimes as a brutal child rapist. Some old folks will recall that Polanski, who commonly assaulted women cinematically, ("Repulsion," "Rosemary's Baby," "Chinatown"), was convicted of drugging a 13-year-old girl with pills and champagne and then raping her in his hot tub. Toasted by his sensitive filmdom friends with "13-year-old champagne," Polanski fled the United States and lolled about in Europe where his pedophile lusts were considered so very creative. Strange that Catholic pedopriests don't receive the same laudatory media treatment as artsy filmdom child molesters. The New York Times had been waiting breathlessly for the enfant pedophile filmmaker to return. It was in Jan. 16, 2000, that the paper gushed, fawned and genuflected to Polanski for his "artistic" perversity in, "Polanski, the Once and Future Auteur." Well, he's baaaack. Polanski's justification for producing and directing "The Pianist," subtitle, "Surviving the Warsaw Ghetto Against Steep Odds," is, sighs the New York Times, truly heart rending. "Mr. Polanski, who was a Jewish child in Krakow when the Germans arrived in September 1939, presents [the Holocaust] story with bleak, acid humor and with a ruthless objectivity that encompasses both cynicism and compassion." While ruthless and cynical define little Roman Polanski, compassion is pure New York Times toadying. The New York Times reviewer of "Piano" is in awe: "We also comfort ourselves in the vain belief that, had we been there, we would have bravely defied the Nazis, risking our own well-being to help their victims." Oh, not Roman. As a child rapist one could count on him to have become a concentration camp "Kapo." These were Jewish men (and women) who were the overseers of other Jews. Kapos generally survived because they targeted others who, they said, should be exterminated. Such a man is Roman, the little Jewish boy who grew up to imitate the worst Nazi storm troopers. He learned well. He became both a child rapist and a storm-trooping filmmaker. So here we have a vicious child rapist rapturously eulogized, praised and celebrated by the hypocritical and dandified "art" world for condemning Nazis who were just like Roman. The New York Times review casually observes that "One of Mr. Polanski's trademarks is what might be called a humane sadism and he punishes his actors, peeling back their vanity." Whose "vanity" is Polanski peeling, and what is "humane sadism?" Polanski, ever the arrogant, sadistic tormentor, never paid for his crime never faced a judge or jury and never even apologized to the child whose life he so brutally violated. Now that Liam Neeson is planning to glamorize Dr. Alfred Kinsey in his upcoming propaganda flick, perhaps Francis Ford Coppola should see if Roman is free to do the directing of the new pedophile promotional. It seems to this writer that Polanski has the perfect type of sensitivity for that film. Who better than a bona fide child molester to properly promote Kinsey, "the father of pedophile chic?" The New York Times mentions that "The Pianist," released by Focus Features, "is rated R (Under 17 requires accompanying parent or adult guardian)," for it contains "many scenes of extreme violence." That much is consistent with the filmmaker's own life.
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DaisyDeadhead says: February 23rd, 2009 at 3:58 pm - Edit
Preying mantis, yes, the most popular theory is that Manson was gunning for Melcher, who was then living with Candice Bergen. He owned the house, and it is widely believed that the Manson family mistook Tate for Bergen, both stunning blond movie stars. (Poor Candice Bergen was robbed of sleep for years.)
The more sinister theories remind everyone of the plot of Polanski s ROSEMARY S BABY you know, how a man (played by a well-known movie director, John Cassavetes) sacrifices his pregnant wife to the devil, so that he can attain success. As I said, the head of the church of satan, Anton LaVey, played satan in the film, who rapes Rosemary in the dream-sequence. He was friends with both Polanski and Manson.
The plot similarity is probably just one of those (cough) strange coincidences.
The third theory is that Polanski knew there was gonna be trouble, was tipped off and split, never expecting the wholesale slaughter than ensued he possibly thought coffee heiress Abigail Folger (one of the victims) would be abducted for money, something like that. Folger is the one who let them into the house, for whatever reason.
I am a terrible Manson murder junkie and know everything about the case. It s embarrassing how much I know.
And Polanski was always a pig. During the filming of CHINATOWN (a movie I love yes, sometimes pigs can -unfortunately- create excellent art, as Lauren noted), Polanski didn t like stray hairs poking out of Faye Dunaway s 30s-bouffant hairdo during the scene where she is eating dinner with Jack Nicholson. So, after a few failed attempts by make-up personnel to smooth her hair into place, he took it and just YANKED IT OUT. (Also note the pedophilia subplot there, too.)
A real misogynist asshole. It s not like this accusation took place in a vacuum; this is a pattern.
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Cinema | Prossimamente | Annuario | Trailer | MovieCard | 4*FRIENDS UNIVERSAL | Roma 2008
Polanski Unauthorized
Un film di Damian Chapa. Con Damian Chapa, Leah Grimsson, Tom Druilhet, Brienne De Beau, Silvia Suvadova, Christian Serritiello, Charles Arthur Berg, Pierre Chemaly, Dana Fares, Victor Girone, Kathleen Gregory, Madla Hruza, Derek Johnson, Tim Mars, Robert McAtee, Ion Muj, Arthur Patching, Charles Power, Monica Ramon, Paul James Saunders, Elena Talan, Kerry Winchester. Genere Biografico, colore - Produzione USA 2009.

Polanski Unauthorized
A fictionalized chronicle of the life, art and disgraceful European exile of the Chinatown director, written, produced, directed by and starring B-movie actor-director Damian Chapa (El Padrino: The Mexican Godfather). Though it s a near thing, the movie isn t quite bad enough to qualify as a classic tone-deaf vanity production; it isn t The Room. Chapa plays the director passably well, and even manages a decent Polish accent when the auteur is berating underlings or popping pills and pawing at actresses, but he resorts to scrunching up his face and yelling when there are big emotions to express. Chapa appears to view the diminutive pedophile as an innocent abroad This isn t Europe, Mr. Polanski, growls a bullet-headed cop), though there s a whiff of an implication that his involvement with a Satanist technical adviser on Rosemary s Baby may have had a maligned influence on his destiny. Still, Chapa earns our gratitude by staging very discreetly the Manson family slaughter of Polanski s wife, Sharon Tate (lookalike Brienne De Beau). Another mercy: Leah Grimsson, the actress cast as the tween blonde Polanski drugged and raped, is a young woman who caught a final glimpse of 13 in her rearview mirror several summers ago. David Chute Theaters showing Polanski Unauthorized (Click on a showtime to purchase tickets)
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Kurban, sacrifice, is an integral part of every religion. Evil is present in this world. Evil must be dealt with, or the foundations of sanity and society are rattled. Roman Polanski, the movie director, is lionized in Europe and reviled in America for taking indecent liberties with a 13 year old girl. Those of us who endured his vile movie Chinatown were not surprised. At the conclusion of this paean to nihilism, the young girl who is a child of incest is taken into the tender care of her father/grandfather, while the protagonist watches in impotent rage. Those who embrace and celebrate nihilism are menaces to any society, Christian or Islamic.

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Both girls-Natalie (portman) and Michelle (Williams)-were so charming and so easy. They are very good actresses. Even in that little minute, in those few seconds, they were terrific.Roman Polanski

What comes out in the documentary, among other things, is the fact that one of the deputy district attorneys illegally influenced the judge-which, if it had been known at that time, would have caused the whole case to be thrown out in a week.Roman Polanski
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Hoping to preserve Geimer's anonymity, her attorney Lawrence Silver arranged for Polanski to plea-bargain, to keep the case from going to trial. Accordingly, Polanski pleaded guilty to the lowest of the counts against him, unlawful sexual intercourse. A probation report recommended against a custodial sentence, but Rittenband decreed that Polanski should have a spell undergoing "'diagnostic study" at Chino State Prison. However, he agreed to defer Polanski's custody to allow him to work on his next project, an action epic called Hurricane. At this point, Polanski made a massive tactical gaffe: on a trip to Europe, he allowed himself to be photographed, cigar in hand and surrounded by young women, at the Munich Oktoberfest. Rittenband was furious; when Polanski returned to LA, he was sent straight to Chino. http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/profiles/roman-polanski-the-truth-about-his-notorious-sex-crime-949106.html Roman Polanski: The truth about his notorious sex crime In 1977, the director Roman Polanski was prosecuted for having unlawful sex with a 13-year-old girl. Now, a controversial film asks: was it a perversion of justice? By Jonathan Romney Sunday, 5 October 2008 Roman Polanski knew what he was doing when he named his 1984 memoir Roman. Fortuitously, the word also means "novel" in French the Polish film-maker was born in Paris and his life has had the hectic fullness of a nightmare picaresque narrative. Polanski's mother died in Auschwitz; the young Roman escaped the Cracow ghetto, foraging to survive. Working in Poland and Britain, he made some of the defining films of the 1960s Knife in the Water, Repulsion, Cul-de-sac. He and his wife, the American actress Sharon Tate, became one of that decade's golden showbusiness couples. Polanski went to Hollywood and, in 1968, made a film that still figures as one of the darkest in the horror canon, Rosemary's Baby. Then came real-life horror the murder of Tate, over eight months pregnant, by members of Charles Manson's "family". Polanski endured, although many wondered how, and no doubt disapproved of his continued ability to function. But function he did: in Chinatown (1974), he created one of the severest of latter-day films noirs, and arguably Los Angeles's most unforgiving cinematic take on its own history. But in March 1977, Polanski, then aged 44, made the fateful mistake that hangs on him to this day. He had been commissioned by Vogue Hommes to take a series of photographs of adolescent girls: he wanted to show them, he says in Roman, as "sexy, pert, and thoroughly human". Polanski was introduced to a 13-year-old named Samantha Gailey, and they met to shoot some photos outdoors . They met again on 10 March for some indoor shots, and ended up at the Mulholland Drive house of Polanski's friend Jack Nicholson, who was away. Champagne was drunk, though accounts vary as to how much; Gailey claimed that Polanski gave her a Quaalude, the modish prescription drug of the time; they both ended up undressed in the Jacuzzi. Sex followed, but exactly under what circumstances only the two of them know for sure. Polanski expressed it tersely in his book: "She wasn't unresponsive." Gailey's account differed: three decades later, she recalled, "It was not consensual sex by any means... It was very scary and, looking back, very creepy." Polanski was subsequently arrested and indicted on six counts: among them, perversion, sodomy and rape by use of drugs. What happened next rather than what happened between Polanski and Gailey is the subject of a new documentary, Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired, that screens next Sunday (12 October) in BBC2's Storyville strand. The film is not primarily about any perversion imputed to Polanski, but about a perversion of justice that, says its director Marina Zenovich, prevented both Gailey and Polanski the chance of a fair hearing. Using interviews and archive footage, Zenovich's film traces the legal machinations that culminated in Polanski fleeing LA on a plane to France, where he remains to this day, still risking arrest if he travels abroad. Zenovich became intrigued by the case in 2003, when she saw Gailey now Samantha Geimer with her lawyer on a TV talk show. "The lawyer said that the day Polanski fled was a sad day for the American judicial system." Precisely what that means, Zenovich argues, is that "Polanski fled because the rug was pulled out from under him. He was promised something and then the judge changed his mind." The key figure in the film, arguably, is neither Polanski nor Geimer, but Judge Laurence J Rittenband, who had presided over such celebrity cases as Elvis and Priscilla Presley's divorce. Rittenband, who died in 1993, emerges from the documentary as a bon viveur who divided his time between the courtroom and his country club, and who relished showbiz connections. And, Zenovich adds,"I find great irony in the fact that he had a girlfriend 30 years younger than him." Hoping to preserve Geimer's anonymity, her attorney Lawrence Silver arranged for Polanski to plea-bargain, to keep the case from going to trial. Accordingly, Polanski pleaded guilty to the lowest of the counts against him, unlawful sexual intercourse. A probation report recommended against a custodial sentence, but Rittenband decreed that Polanski should have a spell undergoing "'diagnostic study" at Chino State Prison. However, he agreed to defer Polanski's custody to allow him to work on his next project, an action epic called Hurricane. At this point, Polanski made a massive tactical gaffe: on a trip to Europe, he allowed himself to be photographed, cigar in hand and surrounded by young women, at the Munich Oktoberfest. Rittenband was furious; when Polanski returned to LA, he was sent straight to Chino. Polanski was released after 42 days of his 90-day term, but here the story gets complicated. Polanski had been led to believe by Rittenband that after Chino, his time behind bars would be over. However, the judge was overheard boasting at his country club that he would put Polanski away "for 100 years". This was just part of Rittenband's bizarre behaviour. We learn from Zenovich's film that the judge, anxious to impress on the media that he was in control of proceedings, twice proposed to prosecuting Assistant District Attorney Roger Gunson and to Polanski's defence lawyer Douglas Dalton that they should plead their cases to him, after which he would pronounce a sentence that he had decided beforehand in effect, amounting to a mock trial. We learn that Rittenband was inordinately influenced by publicity, and that, quite inappropriately, he solicited other people's advice on how he should act: one of them, reporter Richard Brenneman, who was startled to be asked, "What the hell do I do with Polanski?" In the documentary, Geimer says of Rittenband, "He didn't care what happened to me, and he didn't care what happened to Polanski. He was orchestrating some little show ' that I didn't want to be in." Even Gunson comments and this is the prosecutor, mark you "I'm not surprised that [Polanski] left under those circumstances." Zenovich stresses that her film is about the law case itself, rather than the encounter between Polanski and Geimer. "I honestly feel that no one can ever know exactly what happened that night between them," she says. "I didn't want to make a film about that I'm not Fox News." But her carefully constructed film is startling in what it reveals about the US legal system, in which the execution of justice can apparently fall prey to the vagaries of a judge susceptible to media pressure. Rittenband was eventually removed from the Polanski case, but was heard declaring, when he stepped down from the bench in 1989, that he would get Polanski yet. The film is also revealing about changing perceptions of Roman Polanski. He was, the film suggests, viewed in the US at the time as smacking of brimstone, cursed or even somewhat satanic himself because of Tate's death, because of the subject of Rosemary's Baby, because of his bohemian repute as a European hedonist. He was seen by the press, says Brenneman, as a "malignant twisted dwarf with this dark vision". The title of Zenovich's film comes from the contention of a friend of Polanski that the director is wanted in the US, but desired respected, lionised in Europe; as witness, footage of Polanski's induction into the lofty Acad mie Fran aise. Further evidence of his mythic status on this side of the Atlantic is his appearance in the new Italian film Quiet Chaos: when the director, playing a tycoon, steps out of his limo for a last-minute cameo, you'd think a god had descended. Polanski's revered status, and friends' testimonies to his "appetite for life" don't affect the facts of the Geimer case; besides, the case is not being tried in Zenovich's film. But does Polanski emerge from the documentary, if not lily-white, then effectively absolved? Not everyone thinks so: a reviewer at the LA Weekly felt that "Polanski comes off as a whiny, self-styled victim and a liar". Zenovich confesses to being a fan of the director, but insists she didn't set out to present a sympathetic view. "I was very conscious of keeping my opinions out of it my type of film-making is more to step away and let you judge." But she believes her film has given the case a degree of closure. "It wasn't my intention, but I think this film helped everyone heal a little bit. Has Polanski said that to me? No, but I would guess so." Polanski himself appears in the documentary only in archive footage. Zenovich asked to interview him but he declined. Later, as the film was nearing completion, she tried again, and met Polanski in Paris. "He said no, [that] it would look like self-promotion." But Polanski did watch the documentary when it screened in Cannes in May; his response was positive, Zenovich says, though "with Polanski, you never get a lot. I don't know how much of a hot-button topic it would be if he ever came out and said, 'I'm really sorry I did this.' He did to an extent, but he's reserved on that front: he's not American. When I met him I said, 'The American public needs you to apologise.' It's true look at Hugh Grant going on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno [after being caught with prostitute Divine Brown]. It's kind of gross, but that's what this culture wants." As far as Geimer is concerned, the case is closed: Polanski settled out of court with her in 1993. She now lives and works in Hawaii, has been married for 18 years and has three children. She finally went public in the US in 1997, appearing on TV and forgiving Polanski. She also made a statement in the LA Times in 2003, saying the film-maker should be allowed to return to the US: the longer he remained a fugitive, she said, the longer she would have to live with the story. Zenovich was impressed by Geimer when they met: "Everyone is so caught up in what happened, and she's the one it happened to, and she got past it." Zenovich's film may seem to wrap up aspects of its subject, but only to a degree. The film ends with a caption stating that in 1997, Dalton and Gunson re-presented the case to another judge, who said that if he returned to the US, Polanski would face no more custody as long as the proceedings were televised. Polanski declined. The Los Angeles Supreme Court has since contested Zenovich's claim, while Dalton and Gunson have issued a statement backing her. The judge concerned, Zenovich points out, is Larry Paul Fidler, who presided over the recent Phil Spector trial. "There were cameras in the courtroom for that," she notes. Meanwhile, in July this year, on the basis of Zenovich's revelations about Rittenband inappropriately taking advice, Polanski and Dalton asked the LA District Attorney's office to review the case. This could all run and run as could Polanski's courtroom career. Three years ago, Polanski won 50,000 in damages in a British high court over claims in Vanity Fair that he had attempted to seduce a woman in a New York restaurant, en route to Sharon Tate's funeral. He described the allegation as "the worst thing ever said about me". In recent years, Polanski's professional repute has at last come to eclipse the layers of scandal surrounding him. His 2002 Holocaust drama The Pianist took the Palme d'Or in Cannes, then won him the Academy Award for Best Director. Meanwhile, Polanski remains in France, and has been married since 1989 to Emmanuelle Seigner, star of his thriller Frantic, with whom he has two children. When I interviewed him in Paris in 1995, he told me, "When I think about certain events of the past, I think, Christ, I should not have done this or that, and then I think but I would not be where I am today. That's the irony of it. Turning the corner one block too late or too early changes completely your future. I find myself where I am and I'm glad, as I like my life now." It sounds like a happy ending, although the Vanity Fair trial, and Zenovich's film, suggest that some wounds have a habit of re-opening with the years. 'Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired' is on BBC2 on 12 October. 'Quiet Chaos' is released on 24 October

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Wanted and Desired: Was Roman Polanski a Pedophile? New documentary focuses on Chinatown director s 1977 rape trial By Ella Taylor Published on July 09, 2008 at 4:20pm Along its winding road to crucifying the American judiciary, Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired which aired to mostly warm reviews on HBO a few weeks ago and begins a theatrical release from THINKFilm this Friday grinds some very blunt axes, makes some dizzying leaps to judgment and does a lot of silly editing with movie clips. Focusing on the Chinatown director s 1977 Santa Monica rape trial and his unscheduled bolt to Europe before sentencing, Marina Zenovich s lively, exasperating documentary is loaded to the gills with testimony from cops, lawyers and lots of Polanski pals, and bookended by sawn-off clips from an interview the director submitted to with the British writer and TV talk-show pundit Clive James. I say submitted to because Polanski has made no secret of his hatred for the media on both sides of the Atlantic, which, as he sees it, have pilloried him for his freewheeling sex life, beginning with the 1969 murder of his wife, Sharon Tate, and continuing long after his trial for drugging and sodomizing a 13-year-old Samantha Gailey. I ve no doubt that James, a public intellectual and film buff not known for tabloid prurience, asked Polanski all kinds of smart questions about his Holocaust childhood and the impact of his exile from Hollywood on his career. But the one that opens the movie is, Do you like little girls? Without skipping a beat, Polanski replies, I like young women [my emphasis]. I think most men do. I ll get back to this neat little revision of James question, but by the look of it, the interview was conducted sometime in the 1980s, either in Paris, where Polanski has lived for the past 30 years, or somewhere in Europe that doesn t have an extradition agreement with the United States. Zenovich expresses a properly ambivalent sympathy for Polanski in exile, and she isn t shy about drawing unfavorable comparisons between American sexual prissiness and Europe s broader mind. Nor does she waste much energy trying to draw connections between Polanski s life and work, unless you count a few awkwardly inserted clips from Chinatown, Repulsion and Knife in the Water, which could have been chosen by the Mormon prosecutor who, having boned up for the trial by catching a Polanski retrospective at the Nuart, brightly summarizes the director s oeuvre for Zenovich as corruption meeting innocence, over water. Which might be funny, had Zenovich not obligingly cut from this hermeneutic tour de force to Polanski s photos, allegedly taken for Men s Vogue, of a pneumatic Gailey splashing around in Jack Nicholson s Jacuzzi on that very bad day. At least they got the water right. Zenovich uses the trial and its aftermath to deliver a sucker punch to the U.S. justice system, which, she implies, screwed over Polanski with more far-reaching consequences than his screwing of Gailey, now a wholesome-looking mother of three, who appears on camera to forgive her aggressor and fret over having had her panties cut in half for evidence. And it s here that Zenovich s zeal exceeds her grasp with a blow-by-blow demolition of presiding Judge Laurence J. Rittenband, which includes blistering testimony from the lawyers for the defense and the prosecution, who banded together in a successful petition to have him removed from the case when he tried to commit Polanski to prison for a second round of psychiatric evaluation after he d been cleared in the first. Fair enough. Rittenband was known as a celebrity whore who was far too cozy with the media. He was also a party animal who dated much younger women which is to say, 20-year-old women well over the age of consent. Like Polanski, Zenovich cruises blithely over that distinction, to insinuate that the judge was at best a hypocrite, at worst not competent to preside over the trial. She wheels in a close British friend of Polanski to testify that Polanski is incapable of rape, and some older women friends who wonder why Gailey s mother brought her to meet him in the first place. All of which is beside the point that it is legally indefensible and morally outrageous to take a 13-year-old girl whether she s a nun or a nymphomaniac with a mother intent on laying down a behavioral blueprint for Dina Lohan to a strange house on the pretext of a photo shoot, feed her Quaaludes and sodomize her. That, and not prudery or a predatory press, is why Polanski is wanted in America, and would be in Europe if the crime had occurred there. Never mind that Zenovich recently had to revise the film s ending to effectively retract her earlier claim that, in 1998, another judge had guaranteed Polanski immunity from jail upon his return to the U.S., provided he agree to his court proceedings being televised. In the end, Polanski was primarily done in by his own rotten judgment and his complete lack of remorse.

Wanted and Desired: Was Roman Polanski a Pedophile? Continued from page 1 Published on July 09, 2008 at 4:20pm * Polanski meets the press. Polanski meets the press. At the end of Wanted and Desired, Polanski plaintively asks James, Do you think there s something more to my life than my relations with young women? It s possible that his career was damaged, as the movie implies, by the trial and its fallout, though, in fact, he continued from his base in France to work with Hollywood producers mostly on terrible or aborted projects. Just as plausibly, this masterful director, who never made good on the promise of Knife in the Water and Chinatown, simply peaked early and then applied his fabled technical expertise to a procession of potboilers (even The Pianist, which won him an Oscar in absentia, was more faithful adaptation than great art), and finally burned out on high living. In Zenovich s movie, Polanski comes off as a whiny, self-styled victim and a liar, who first pleaded not guilty, then changed his plea to guilty of unlawful sex with a minor, then ran away without telling his lawyers. According to many who have worked with him, as well as a clear-eyed, entertaining new biography by British writer Christopher Sandford (to be published in September), Polanski is also a gifted artist and a generous, intelligent, charming man whose charisma has won him undying loyalty from friends, fellow filmmakers and, perhaps, a free pass from all the critics who loved this movie. ROMAN POLANSKI: WANTED AND DESIRED | Directed by MARINA ZENOVICH | Written by ZENOVICH, JOE BINI and P.G. MORGAN | Produced by JEFFREY LEVY-HINTE, LILA YACOUB and MARINA ZENOVICH | Released by THINKFilm | Opens July 18 at Sunset

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The film is set in 1917, during the last months of legal prostitution in Storyville, the red-light district of New Orleans, Louisiana. Hattie, a prostitute at the elegant home of Madame Nell, and her 12-year-old daughter Violet are the only ones awake when photographer Ernest J. Bellocq comes by with his camera. He takes photographs of Hattie and fascinates Violet. Over the next few months, Nell arranges for the auction of Violet's virginity, Hattie marries and goes to St. Louis, abandoning Violet in the brothel. Bellocq continues to spend time with Violet, fascinated by her beauty, youth, and photogenic face. When the brothel eventually closes, Bellocq and Violet marry, ostensibly to protect her from the larger world. He is much older than she, and others question his motives in befriending her to begin with.
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Recently unsealed grand jury minutes detail 1977 sex assault MARCH 11--It's been 26 years since Roman Polanski's arrest for sexually abusing a 13-year-old girl, but the director's Oscar nomination and the success of his film "The Pianist" has again focused attention on the March 1977 crime that prompted his French exile. Polanski, 69, will not discuss the case and his victim, Samantha Geimer, now 39, has recently said that the sex assault should not color his chances with Academy Award voters. But that, of course, does not lessen the severity of the crime, which is graphically detailed in the following grand jury testimony, which was quietly unsealed four months ago by L.A. Superior Court Judge David Wesley. Two weeks after Polanski plied her with Champagne and a Quaalude, Samantha Gailey appeared before an L.A. grand jury and recalled Polanski's predatory behavior in a Mulholland Canyon home owned by Jack Nicholson. The teenager's troubling--and contemporaneous--account of her abuse at Polanski's hands begins with her posing twice for topless photos that the director said were for French Vogue. The girl then told prosecutors how Polanski directed her to, "Take off your underwear" and enter the Jacuzzi, where he photographed her naked. Soon, the director, who was then 43, joined her in the hot tub. He also wasn't wearing any clothes and, according to Gailey's testimony, wrapped his hands around the child's waist. The girl testified that she left the Jacuzzi and entered a bedroom in Nicholson's home, where Polanski sat down beside her and kissed the teen, despite her demands that he "keep away." According to Gailey, Polanski then performed a sex act on her and later "started to have intercourse with me." At one point, according to Gailey's testimony, Polanski asked the 13-year-old if she was "on the pill," and "When did you last have your period?" Polanski then asked her, Gailey recalled, "Would you want me to go in through your back?" before he "put his penis in my butt." Asked why she did not more forcefully resist Polanski, the teenager told Deputy D.A. Roger Gunson, "Because I was afraid of him." Following his indictment on various sex charges, Polanski agreed to a plea deal that spared him prison time (he had spent about 45 days in jail during a court-ordered psychiatric evaluation). But when it seemed that a Superior Court judge might not honor the deal--and sentence Polanski to prison--the director fled the country. Below you'll find links to Gailey's grand jury testimony, the heart of which runs 36 pages (we've broken the transcript into two 18-page sections for easier navigation). http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/polanskicover1.html

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From Ryan Parry, US Correspondent On Kauai Island, Hawaii 25/07/2005 EXCLUSIVE: WE FIND GIRL DIRECTOR DRUGGED AND ABUSED DRUGS, champagne, a hot tub and an evening of depraved sex. Nothing out of the ordinary for Hollywood's enfant terrible Roman Polanski. Except that on this particular evening, the movie director's victim was just 13 years old. Samantha Geimer SURVIVOR: Samantha now lives in Hawaii She was Samantha Geimer, an aspiring model Polanski had earlier photographed topless before drugging, raping and sodomising her in a case that shocked America. Which explains why Samantha is bewildered that the director has just won 50,000 in a High Court libel action against Vanity Fair after the magazine claimed he made sexual advances to a woman on the day of his murdered wife Sharon Tate's funeral. "Polanski is a very arrogant, self-important, creepy old man," says Samantha, now a married mum-of-three who lives with husband David. Speaking exclusively to the Mirror at her home in Hawaii, the 39-year-old continues: "The libel case makes no sense. I really couldn't understand why he took out the lawsuit in the first place. Surely a man like this hasn't got a reputation to tarnish? "He took sex from me and my innocence. I don't think it occurred to him that someone wouldn't want sex with him." Polanski, who was 43 at the time, violated the youngster eight years after losing pregnant Sharon in the brutal 1969 slaying by the Charles Manson "family". Samantha Geimer aged 13 VICTIM: Samantha aged 13 SAMANTHA'S ordeal began after Polanski met her mother at an LA restaurant and showed a professional interest in the girl. Mother and daughter were thrilled. It was a fine February day in 1977 when Polanski drove up to their California home in his rented Mercedes. Samantha's mother showed him into the living room. Then 13-year-old Sam walked in with her pet bird and her dog. Polanski suggested they walk into the hills for a few photos. "It was just him and me. He took some standard pictures but when I I changed clothes he continued to take photos," Samantha says. "He took top-less pictures of me but it all seemed very professional and I did as I was told." Two weeks later Polanski turned up at the house again. He told Samantha he was taking her to see a friend and they drove to his friend Jack Nicholson's house. "It was exciting," says Samantha. "My girlfriend was supposed to come along as my chaperone but at the last minute Polanski said it would be better if she didn't come. She went home and Mom didn't realise I was on the shoot alone."

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