Roman Polanski arrested in Zürich

[Darth Wagtaros]

They're remaking all sorts of movies these days.

He could "reboot" Caged Heat.

Lolita.

17 year old Dominique Swain was hott.

No.  She looked 12.

[Jaron]

They're remaking all sorts of movies these days.

He could "reboot" Caged Heat.

Lolita.

17 year old Dominique Swain was hott.

Do we need to lock this thread?

[Eddie Teach]

No.  She looked 12.

Bullshit. She looked like a grown woman with a little girl's haircut.

Sue Lyon looked younger, though I'm thinking 14 maybe.

[BuddhaRhubarb]

Bah. the "America" bit was throw-away. Just some sarcastic humour  I forgot not everyone understands those concepts (humor or sarcasm)

You also forgot that maybe it was your usage of the "sarcastic humor" that was at fault... oh, wait.  I forgot.  You don't think anyone at Languish admits mistakes, so naturally you don't consider doing so yourself.

Who on this board actually asks open ended questions? That's not how it works here. You say something you think is either brilliant, trollish, stupid, clever, etc and wait for others to respond in kind.

Well, I ask them JR asks them, BB asks them, Yi (especially) asks them... so we are left with the necessity of translating your "not how it works here" to "not how it works here for me." Okay.  Just don't bitch so much, then, when others "pull a BuddhaRhubarb."

ow. Was I that mean to you? or just talking out of my ass about the board in general?  I never intended originally to get into some kind of ad hom bullshit. but I did. sorry.

[KRonn]

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,560983,00.html

Polanski Denied Request to Be Released From Prison

The Swiss Justice Ministry says it has rejected an appeal from Roman Polanski to be released from prison pending his possible extradition to the United States.

Ministry spokesman Folco Galli told The AP on Tuesday that the government maintains there is a high risk that Polanski might flee if released from custody.

The appeal is separate from a court case Polanski's legal team filed last week that also seeks the 76-year-old director's freedom.

Polanski was arrested Sept. 26 as he arrived in Zurich to receive an award from a film festival.

Polanski pleaded guilty to having unlawful sexual intercourse with a 13-year-old girl and fled into exile in France in 1977. He has since avoided traveling to countries that were likely to extradite him.

He had spent 42 days in prison in what his lawyers believed was his full sentence under a plea bargain. But a decision by the now deceased judge to add more prison time and require his voluntary deportation prompted him to leave the country.

His victim, Samantha Geimer, who long ago identified herself, has joined in Polanski's bid for dismissal, saying she wants the case to be over. She sued Polanski and reached an undisclosed settlement.

Polanski has lived for the past three decades in France, where his career has continued to flourish; he received a directing Oscar in absentia for the 2002 movie "The Pianist." He and Seigner have two children.

[Valmy]

Cool I look forward to his trial.

He should be sentenced to attending every Baltimore Orioles game next year.

[Berkut]

It seems terribly unreasonable to consider the poor man a flight risk. He is a respected director!

[KRonn]

Perhaps another one of America's long national nightmares is coming to an end?   

[Darth Wagtaros]

It seems terribly unreasonable to consider the poor man a flight risk. He is a respected director!

He's made many good movies.  Raping a child hardly compares with his artistic mastery. And Woody Allen says he is a righteous dude!

[KRonn]

It seems terribly unreasonable to consider the poor man a flight risk. He is a respected director!

He's made many good movies.  Raping a child hardly compares with his artistic mastery. And Woody Allen says he is a righteous dude!

[Malthus]

It seems terribly unreasonable to consider the poor man a flight risk. He is a respected director!

He's made many good movies.  Raping a child hardly compares with his artistic mastery. And Woody Allen says he is a righteous dude!

He gets two free rapes for Chinatown.

[Martinus]

All these great works of art wouldn't exist had justice been served.

[BuddhaRhubarb]

next time use bigger pictures to make your point. btw I like your Brad Pitt quote. I'd pay dues to be a member of that party (Pitt The Stoner?).

[Agelastus]

next time use bigger pictures to make your point. btw I like your Brad Pitt quote. I'd pay dues to be a member of that party (Pitt The Stoner?).

I must admit I find myself surprised to find myself so in accord with Brad Pitt's political views. I like the fact that I can still learn something new everyday.

[Martinus]

French minister in 'boy sex' row
France's Culture Minister Frederic Mitterrand is facing intense pressure over a book he wrote that described paying for "young boys" in Thailand.

The book was written four years ago, before he joined the government, but is back in the headlines following his impassioned support for Roman Polanski.

Polanski has been arrested in Switzerland on child sex charges.

Mr Mitterrand, nephew of late President Francois Mitterrand, is expected to defend himself on TV later on Thursday.

Mr Mitterrand has come under attack from right and left.

In his 2005 book The Bad Life, he wrote: "I got into the habit of paying for boys," saying his attraction to young male prostitutes was not dimmed despite knowing "the sordid details of this traffic".

"All these rituals of the market for youths, the slave market excited me enormously... the abundance of very attractive and immediately available young boys put me in a state of desire."

Mr Mitterrand, 62, has denied being a paedophile, saying the term "boys" was used loosely.

'Sex tourism'

The account of cruising for prostitutes in Thailand attracted little attention when it was published in 2005, when Mr Mitterrand was a TV personality.

He did not share his uncle's socialist politics, and was brought into the centre-right government by President Nicolas Sarkozy in June 2009.

But his strong defence of Polanski has brought the book back into the public eye. Polanski faces deportation to the United States for having had sex with a 13-year-old girl in 1977.

Mr Mitterrand said the US' behaviour, in seeking his extradition, was callous and "horrifying".

Socialist Party spokesman Benoit Hamon told Reuters: "As a minister of culture he has drawn attention to himself by defending a film maker accused of raping a child and he has written a book where he said he took advantage of sexual tourism. To say the least, I find it shocking."

Marine Le Pen, vice president of the right-wing National Front, read excerpts of Mr Mitterrand's book aloud during a television interview, and said it left "an indelible stain on the government".

She called for the culture minister to step down.

"Resign, Mr Mitterrand and perhaps, afterwards we'll be able to give lessons to other people," she said.

Mr Mitterrand said it was an honour to be dragged though the mud by the National Front, and criticised the Socialists for making common cause with the extreme right.

A senior aide to President Sarkozy, Henri Guaino, on Thursday backed the minister, saying the row was "excessive and quite undignified".

But the BBC's Emma Jane Kirby, in Paris, says that the revelation that a senior cabinet minister was involved in sex tourism, just as the country holds negotiations with Thailand to discuss ways of fighting it, will inevitably embarrass Mr Sarkozy's government.