[kcvl]

Paris Still Home to Polanski

By Bruce Kirkland
Originally published in The Toronto Sun, March 8, 2000

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Despite a flurry of new rumours, Roman Polanski says he has no plans to try to return to the United States, which he fled 22 years ago after being convicted of "unlawful sexual intercourse" with a 13-year-old girl he was photographing.

"I don't know if it's resignation or a lack of interest or a fear of the media circus that would happen," Polanski said in a telephone interview from Paris. The rumour mills are just speculation, he says. "Every now and again they propose the notion that I am doing something about it. Then there is a new round of articles about my possible return. There's nothing!"

[RichInOC]

Roman, you've been going after one of those little golden guys for about thirty years. It's gotta frost you that you finally win the little sucker and you can't go to pick it up yourself because you'd get arrested. You've probably spent far longer on the lam than you would have at Chino or wherever....but I guess irresponsibility is its own punishment, sometimes.