He raped me — but give him an Oscar

The Sunday Times ^ | March 16, 2003 | Margarette Driscoll

[MadIvan]

She's an imbecile. Maybe Hollywood can forget, but hopefully the police won't.

Regards, Ivan

[MadIvan]

Bump!

[Litany]

She must be a Demoocrat.

[wizzler]

I'm curious about something, and this is as good (or bad) a place to ask as any: What is the purpose of the "You have selected a link to an external website" page when clicking on a link around here?

It's vaguely annoying, because most web users don't like things that slow them down from getting where they want to go. But if there's some logical reason for it, I can probably soothe myself a bit.

[Mr. Thorne]

Disgusting. Typically Hollywood.

[Bonaparte]

Polanski's lawyers cut a deal with the prosecutor's office before he returned to the US. He won't be prosecuted. Polanski has gotten away with raping a child.

[yarddog]

I remember this being in the news a few years ago but this is the first time I saw that he plied her with drugs and alcohol.

I guess she just wants to forget it but that kind of conduct would have gotten a person life in prison not too many years ago, and rightly so.

I always suspected Polanski was a creep but now see that he is a truly evil one.

[dagnabbit]

News to me. Has he returned to the US?

[willyboyishere]

Polanski will never get an Oscar, and not entirely becauseof this scandal that will never die. Lots of critics,
with no personal axe to grind, think film is overrated, and the character of the pianist way too passive to make a compelling protagonist.

[SauronOfMordor]

Links to her grand jury testamony:

pages 1-18

pages 19-26

[Lizavetta]

[stands2reason]

Caption:"Zank heaven for leetle gells."

[sharktrager]

I read her deposition, and there were some things that I found odd.

When he pulled out the quelude, he had to ask her if that's what it was, and she knew the answer. She also stated this was not her first time drinking or taking a quelude, as well as having sex.

Her actions now seem to me to be a direct result of the same kind of upbringing that goes with a 13-year old who has already drunk, used drugs and had sex with a 16-year old boyfriend.

[cynicom]

This person is as dumb as she was when she was 13.

[Illbay]

Polanski the Predator

[Bonaparte]

Oops! No, he hasn't -- not yet. Sorry about that.

But there's really nothing stopping him from doing so. His victim has withdrawn her complaint and, without that, it's kind of hard to prosecute. I think the main reason he hasn't come back is because of all the bad feeling there is against him. He would be spending a fortune on bodyguards. Besides, he's been wined and dined and honored and employed in Europe for many years. They actually like pedophiles who forcibly rape and sodomize protesting 13-year-olds. But then, so do all those low-lifes in Hollywood. But be a really tough choice for Liebling, I mean Polanski.

What I find especially odd is that his victim, who was seriously traumatized by the attack, is now perfectly willing to let this animal roam free, doing the same to other children. Was Geimer bribed, threatened or both? Or does she just not care. Surely, she's not dumb enough to believe she was his first victim. Or his last.

[Libloather]

The eyes of *Bubba...

[JoeSchem]

But to the director’s rescue has come a most unusual champion: the victim herself.

Anita Hill accused Clarence Thomas of using potty language in the office. And she'll never forgive him of that.