Posted on 10/03/2009 6:56:16 AM PDT by grundle
Naming Names: The ‘Free Roman Polanski’ Petition
Fatih 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 et Jean-Pierre Dardenne, Jonathan Demme, Alexandre Desplat, Rosalinde et Michel Deville, Georges Dybman, Jacques Fansten, Joël Farges, Gianluca Farinelli (Cinémathèque de de Bologne), 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 (World Cinema Foundation), 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 (Directeur Festival de NY), 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.
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Jack prefers older women. At least 25.
I think she was 13, but same point. Carry on!
A massive disappointment for me. I never knew he was such a nitwit.
L&O has survived by the good graces of NBC and taking news stories and writing episodes. In their promos they say “ripped from the headlines.” They really mean ripped-off.
Not necessarily. In the Seventies, I stayed at a hotel in St. Tropez. The receptionist was Algerian (and daughter of the hotel owner) and very friendly. Although she claimed to be Muslim, she didn’t pray or go to services - pretty darn secular by today’s standards. A lot of North African women (Moroccan and Algerian) I met in Europe seemed to have more readily adapted their host country’s mores. I thought she was hot because she reminded me of Cyd Charise - almost all legs.
Let the boycott of their films begin!
Vous n’êtes pas le français?
95% of these perverts are communists in the French Cinema, making the worst movies on the planet.
(Except Luc Besson, not on the list and the only French dude who can make a decent movie)
Seems to me that is a list of 100 who should be charged with aiding and abeting a pedophile. Non celebrity pedophile rapists get 10 to 40 years. Polanski is a convicted criminal who took flight to avoid sentencing, and on that charge alone should be extridited post haste, tried for fleight, then sentenced for rape of a minor and escape.
Instead of spending money on going to the movies, divert that amount to charities that support our troops. These idiot actors earn millions while our troops earn so little.
Well, you know that their Dear "Prophet" (pieces be upon him) did have a thing for 9 year old girls I understand.
Top reasons why celebrities (and others) might excuse criminals like Polanski (and others who’ve committed similar crimes):
1. They’ve done it themselves
2. They might do it themselves
3. The criminals are “talented” and such talent is more important than whatever justice might be required
4. The victim was too tempting and the criminal was “only human”
5. The criminals have similar talents to those celebrities
6. The criminals earn a lot of money for their industry
7. The criminal is a sympathetic figure
8. The crime happened a long time ago
9. None of the celebrities or their relatives were harmed by the criminal
10. The victim is now dead or doesn’t care to pursue the charges or to see justice done after so many years
11. The victim “asked for it”
12. The justice system didn’t consider the consequences to the criminal’s family
13. The criminal reminds them of another criminal who was “unjustly” accused and impeached while being president
Heck, I’m sure there are thousands more.
That seems like a good list of people never to patronize again.
Nobody I give a fart in a high wind for. Pervs, Frenchmen, and self-absorbed has-beens. But an excellent list for future reference. Saves the labor of building a black list from scratch.
“Most of those names look like bad Scrabble hands.”
Now that’s funny!
Luc Besson co-wrote “Taken”, the film starring Liam Neeson about an ex-spy saving his kidnapped daughter from sex slavery, so I was hoping he wasn’t on this list.
And here’s a quote from http://blog.movieset.com/2009/09/29/director-roman-polanski-arrested-switzerland/:
“Luc Besson, for instance, remarked: ‘I do not know the history of the process. (…) I feel a lot of affection for [Polanski], he’s a man I really like and I know him a bit, our daughters are very good friends but there is a justice, [and] it is the same for everyone’.”
(He better watch his daughter!)
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