Posted on 05/14/2010 12:09:08 PM PDT by OldDeckHand
A woman has come forward claiming Roman Polanski abused her over 25 years ago -- when she was 16 years old ... 4 years after Polanski fled the U.S.
Charlotte Lewis -- who co-starred with Eddie Murphy in "The Golden Child" -- was front and center at a Gloria Allred news conference that ended a few minutes ago ... claiming she has now told authorities her story.
(Excerpt) Read more at tmz.com ...
You are describing normal, healthy people. Some folks seem to be frozen, developmentally, at puberty, or at least that’s my theory. They target young teens because such is what they TOO are, development-wise.
I found this kinda interesting
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Eddie Murphy in “The Golden Child”
Possibly the worst big bidget movies in the last 50 years.
Oh, come on. Did you not see Water World? How about Ishtar? Star Wars Episode I, II or III?
I'm not sure "The Golden Child" is even in the top 10 worst big budget movies of all time.
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Did you not see Water World? How about Ishtar? Star Wars Episode I, II or III?
No. No. ........{hangs head and mumbles}....yes yes yes.
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“Star Wars Episode I, II or III?”
yeah but they make oodles of money worldwide; the others did not
That’s weird!
If you have Netflix and/or streaming you should see it. Its unbelievable and Greta Van (sp) from FNC is in it and used her resources from FNC to help the documentarian in the making of it. They do find her and her story is absolutely amazing.
in before pedo bear
Thanks brother, can’t keep track of these Hollywood types.
Actually it is 15 in Maryland if the partner is 19 and younger.
An underage person cannot legally give consent. So even without force or coercion being involved, it is still rape.
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Not bad for a celeb just out running errands!
15 in MD? Who knew!
He’s made exactly one film in Hollywood. He’s a European filmmaker.
I’m going to look it up and watch.
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When Patricia Douglas was raped by an MGM salesman at a 1937 studio party, the 20-year-old dancer filed charges, taking on Hollywood’s most powerful institution. Today, as Douglas breaks a 65-year silence, the author exposes the perjury, bribes, and smear tactics used to destroy her
‘What,” asked Jacqueline Onassis, “are we going to do next?” It was September 1993. She had just edited Bombshell: The Life and Death of Jean Harlow, in which I solved the long-standing mystery of how Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer’s beloved Blonde Bombshell died suddenly and inexplicably at 26. (Unbeknownst even to herself, Harlow had been suffering from kidney failure since she was 15.) Now, over lunch at the Peninsula hotel in Manhattan, I told Jackie of an intriguing topic I’d stumbled onto in my Harlow research. A month before the star’s death, in 1937, a dancer named Patricia Douglas had been raped at a wild MGM party thrown by Louis B. Mayer. Instead of bartering her silence for a studio contract or cash, Douglas went public with her story and filed a landmark lawsuit. One person I interviewed told me, “They had her killed.”
I didn’t believe that, I told Jackie, because, though MGM was then the world’s most powerful movie studio, with its own railroad and in-house police force, it would never have gone to such an extreme. Jackie smiled and said, “Well, why don’t you find out what did happen? You’re the only person who can, David.”
It has taken a decade, but the story is astounding. Absent from all reference works, presumed by participants to be buried forever, the Patricia Douglas case is probably the biggest, best-suppressed scandal in Hollywood history. However, I managed to find old newspaper coverage, previously unseen photos, damning studio documentation, long-forgotten legal records, privately shot cinematographic evidence hidden in an MGM film vault, and, most amazing, Patricia Douglas herself. I tracked the reclusive invalid down and eventually persuaded her to break her 65-year silence.
In the spring of 1937, Patricia Douglas was a chunky, chestnut-haired 20-year-old with porcelain skin and perfect teeth. Born in Kansas City, Missouri, she had migrated to Hollywood with her mother, Mildred Mitchell, who was determined to design gowns for screen queens. Instead, she became a couturiere for high-end call girls; in the meantime, she neglected her teenage daughter. Patricia dropped out of convent school at 14; she did not drink, date, or dream of film fame-an appealing rarity for the half-dozen male stars for whom she soon became a platonic mascot.
http://www.accessmylibrary.com/coms2/summary_0286-7028154_ITM
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