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Mr. Polanski should get a free pass because Jerry Lee Lewis married his 13-year-old cousin
Irrelevant facts about Polanski - The Globe and MailLast updated on Friday, Oct. 02, 2009 08:09PM EDT
The list of things that are not relevant to the arrest of Roman Polanski begins with the film Chinatown and really just goes on and on from there.
It includes his advanced age, 76. France, while restorative, isn't a cryogenic chamber – living comfortably on the lam there for 31 years, one still ages.
The Irrelevant List also includes the current fiscal crisis in California, his many accolades, friends and even Charles Manson. It ends, I hope, with the suggestion, earnestly blogged somewhere, that Mr. Polanski should get a free pass because Jerry Lee Lewis married his 13-year-old cousin – for which, incidentally, Mr. Lewis was blacklisted and nearly destroyed.
Obviously, the superiority of an artist's work should not be relevant in a criminal case. Not unless it's going to work both ways. In which case, someone needs to serve serious time for the screenplay of Coco Avant Chanel , which opened this week, and Mr. Polanski arguably should get six months just for casting Nastassja Kinski in the role of Tess.
The fact that Mr. Polanski's mother died in Auschwitz is also irrelevant – by that logic, my step-grandfather was in a PoW camp, so I get to do what, exactly? Shoplift an Oh Henry?
Many have been quick to hint that the charge (Mr. Polanski pleaded guilty to unlawful sexual intercourse to avoid a trial) is a prudish hold-over from a bygone era, but the last time I checked, society was still against sex with children.
This wasn't a case of a man being tried for homosexuality or adultery or “breach of promise.” Mr. Polanski wasn't arrested for refusing to testify at the House Committee on Un-American Activities or for tippling on prohibition whisky.
Rape is not an archaic crime. So the fact that it was the seventies excuses nothing but the decor, not even the Quaalude segment (taken with champagne) that Mr. Polanski gave his 13-year-old victim. He was 42.
Debra Winger has called the arrest “Philistine.”
Which is asinine. Although I won't boycott her films any more than I will the films of the other actors and directors demanding his release – nor more than I would, say, Wagner.
The work is always separate from its creator to anyone but a fan boy – one who needs to assume some relationship with the artist to appreciate him.
The fact that the victim doesn't want the charges raised also isn't relevant. The law must act independently. I don't even approve of victim impact statements; no one should serve less time for a crime because their victim has inarticulate relatives.
The fact that she admitted to not being a virgin isn't relevant. She had had sex twice, she said in her compelling grand jury testimony, but even if we added two zeroes on there and she said “no” to Mr. Polanski, as she clearly and plausibly testified she did, it was rape.
The fact that Harvey Weinstein (who issued a statement referring to Mr. Polanski's “so-called crime”) produced a documentary portraying the director as the victim isn't relevant. Documentaries, like Rosemary's Baby , are art, which can't be cross-examined. That isn't how justice is decided.
It's irrelevant that the crime took place in Los Angeles – the place where everyone goes to play out their talent cards and cash in their pretty chips. You can hear that particular commerce going on all around you there, but that's not necessarily a bad thing, done by bad people; if there's an outmoded, prurient element to this story, it comes from Mr. Polanski's defenders, and it's in their quasi-Victorian suggestion that aspiring actresses have it coming to them.
It wasn't a crime for a girl to agree to be photographed, nor was it a crime for her mother to allow it. Young Alice Liddell was photographed by Lewis Carroll, in the service of art. Was Alice's mother a better mother, because Carroll never vaginally and anally raped her daughter, as Mr. Polanski's victim testified happened to her?
The girl testified she told Mr. Polanski that she had asthma. That's why she needed to get out of the hot tub when he, naked in the deep end, told her to come nearer.
She said she needed to go home, to take her medicine.
“Did you have asthma?” the grand jury asked.
“No,” she replied.
“Have you ever had asthma?”
“No,” she said.
You don't have to have been a young girl in a bad situation, one in which you're trying not to get hurt but are also (so self-conscious, so 13 years old) trying not to be seen to overreact, to recognize the powerlessness expressed in her words. But it helps, and this imbalance that the words express is a reminder of why prosecuting statutory rape, prosecuting all rape, is relevant.
Jerry Lee Lewis ' I heard he was into DRUGS' - tj hooker early 80's
Jerry also did an episode of "Cannon" and that other cop show with that big-nosed actor, Carl Malden. Was it "Streets of San Francisco" Does "hollandziek" have those episodes as well? And if so are they here on YouTube? Would love to see those too! I thought it was cool when Jerry said at around 3:02, "It's identification time" for those people who maybe were watching, and didn't know who he was. He knew EVERYONE had heard of "Whole Lotta Shakin' Goin' On."
DAVID LETTERMAN: "I had sex with women who work for this mission." Google Translate
Google TranslateUS-Talk-König David Letterman (62, verheiratet) Er gesteht Sex-Affären mit Mitarbeiterinnen U.S. talk-king David Letterman (62, married), he admits sex affairs with female employees
Mutmaßlicher Täter war ein bekannter Produzent Alleged perpetrator was a famous producer
03.10.2009 - 01:24 UHR 03/10/2009 - 01:24 CLOCKDer amerikanische Late-Night-Talkstar und Komiker David Letterman (62) ist wegen sexueller Beziehungen zu weiblichen Angestellten erpresst worden! The American Late Night Talk Star and comedian David Letterman (62) has been blackmailed for sexual relations with female staff! Das hatte er bei der Aufzeichnung seiner Sendung in New York selbst bekannt gegeben. He had been in the recording of his mission in New York, announced themselves.
Jemand hatte ihm gedroht, damit an die Öffentlichkeit zu gehen, sollte er nicht zwei Millionen Dollar zahlen. Someone had threatened him in order to go public, he should not have to pay two million U.S. dollars. Jetzt wurde die Identität des mutmaßlichen Erpressers bekannt: Es soll sich um den bekannten TV-Produzent Robert „Joe“ Haldermann (51) handeln, der bereits vor einem New Yorker Gericht zur Anklage vernommen wurde. Now, the identity of the alleged extortionist was known: It must be concerned about the well-known TV producer Robert "Joe" Halder man (51), which has already been heard by a New York court for prosecution. Halderman wies den Vorwurf zurück. Halderman rejected the allegation.
Robert Haldermann (51) vor einem New Yorker Gericht Halder, Robert Mann (51) in a New York court
Mehr zum Thema More aboutLetterman wagte den Schritt nach vorn, gestand in seiner eigenen Show: „Ich hatte Sex mit Frauen, die für diese Sendung arbeiten.“ Er hätte den Fall an die Staatsanwaltschaft übergeben und vor einer Grand Jury ausgesagt: „Ich spüre, dass ich diese Leute schützen muss. Letterman took the step forward, confessed in his own show: "I had sex with women who work for this mission." He would turn the case over to prosecutors and testified before a grand jury: "I feel that these people I must protect. Ich muss sicherlich meine Familie schützen.“ I certainly have to protect my family. "
Der zuständige Staatsanwalt gab am Freitag bekannt, dass Haldermann nun wegen versuchter schwerer Erpressung angeklagt wird. The prosecutor announced on Friday that Halder man is now charged with attempted extortion harder. Im Falle einer Verurteilung würden ihm bis zu 15 Jahren Haft drohen. If convicted, he would threaten up to 15 years in prison.
Der TV-Produzent und CBS-Kollege war den bisherigen Ermittlungen zufolge Anfang September vor Lettermans Haus aufgetaucht und hatte gedroht, Lettermanns Sex-Affären publik zu machen – wenn dieser nicht zwei Millionen Dollar (ca. 1,4 Millionen Euro) Schweigegeld zahle. The CBS-TV producer and colleague turned up the investigation so far, according to early September, before Letterman's house and had threatened to Mann's letter publicized sex scandals to make - if this is not (two million U.S. dollars will pay approximately 1.4 million euros) in hush. Bei einer fingierten Scheck-Übergabe wurde Haldermann gestellt. With a fake check handed over Halder man has been made.
Der Erpresser galt als renommierter TV-Produzent, erarbeitete sich zuletzt mit der Krimi-Show „48 Hours“ einen guten Ruf. The blackmailer was regarded as a renowned TV producer, worked out at last with the crime show "48 Hours" a good reputation. Letterman hat mit Regina Lasko einen im November 2003 geborenen Sohn. Letterman and Regina Lasko a native son in November 2003. Im März dieses Jahres heiratete das Paar. In March this year the couple married.
THEY DONT CALL THEM LOVERS IN HIGH SCHOOL, LEELAND: YOU REMEMBER? COUNTRY PUNK. YOU WERE -9, AND THE guy at the door didn't want to let you in because of your preconceived 'tude and your snail trail, but i came over and stamped your embryo and you sat at the bar and drank kamikazes until you passed out.
THEY DONT CALL THEM LOVERS IN HIGH SCHOOL, LEELAND: YOU REMEMBER? COUNTRY PUNK. YOU WERE -9, AND THE guy at the door didn't want to let you in because of your preconceived 'tude and your snail trail, but i came over and stamped your embryo and you sat at the bar and drank kamikazes until you passed out.YOU REMEMBER? COUNTRY PUNK. YOU WERE -9, AND THE guy at the door didn't want to let you in because of your preconceived 'tude and your snail trail, but i came over and stamped your embryo and you sat at the bar and drank kamikazes until you passed out.
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