The End of the Innocence: A Swiss Prison Playlist for Roman Polanski Behind Bars

I like "Rosemary's Baby" as much as the next aging cineaste, but as a parent I must confess that I like actual babies even more. Call me old fashioned, but I still believe that kids should not be taken advantage of sexually -- even by a significant filmmaker. And so my heart does not break for Roman Polanski tonight. Yet I did want to send along a playlist for Polanski that might lend itself towards encouraging a little incarceration introspection. I atoned today, why shouldn't he?

YOUNG GIRL - Gary Puckett & The Union Gap
LOCKED AWAY - Keith Richards & The Expensive Winos
CRIMINAL - Fiona Apple
YOUNG BLOOD - The Coasters
DIRTY OLD MAN - Neil Young
GIRL, YOU'LL BE A WOMAN SOON - Neil Diamond
CAUGHT BY THE FUZZ - Supergrass
THE END OF THE INNOCENCE - Don Henley
WHEN YOU WERE YOUNG - The Killers
I FOUGHT THE LAW - Green Day
TEENAGE JAIL - The Eagles
BREAKING THE LAW - Judas Priest
INNOCENCE - Sarah Buxton
ROMAN CANDLE - Elliot Smith
RUNNIN' AWAY - Sly & The Family Stone
OH VERY YOUNG - Cat Stevens
SMOOTH CRIMINAL - Michael Jackson
GO AWAY LITTLE GIRL - Steve Lawrence
YOUNGER GIRL - Lovin' Spoonful

What's on your playlist for Roman Polanski?

 

 

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Comments

[cbr1965]

10:34 AM on 09/30/2009

Jailbait - Aerosmith

[Tallulah Morehead]

04:07 AM on 09/30/2009

Yet another Polanski piece...


AAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!

Enough! Enough! Enough! Enough! Enough! Enough! Enough! Enough!

[lillibelle]

10:47 PM on 09/29/2009

David, I love your list!

Here are a few more:

Go Away, Little Girl - Donny Osmond
Sweet & innocent - Donny Osmond
Back On the Chaingang - The Pretenders

[lillibelle]

10:57 PM on 09/29/2009

Oops! I now see that I have arrived late to the party...Really enjoyed your selections, David, and all the recommendations.

[David Wild]

11:58 PM on 09/29/2009

Thanks lillibelle

I know Donny, and I'm not sure that he's thrilled to be mentioned in this context.

[joelaf]

08:00 PM on 09/29/2009

off topic, these posts make me feel good, and young, and alive. TY David

[David Wild]

08:43 PM on 09/29/2009

Wow, thanks. I will keep doing them then. In a way, they offer the chance to make a sane response to an insane world. Seriously, I will take that as a sign to press on with my playlists.

[joelaf]

06:19 PM on 09/29/2009

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=be-cgzPy1oU&feature=related


RP and UB40, on the other hand. Good advice for married men

[David Wild]

06:35 PM on 09/29/2009

Wow, when he was good, he was very, very good.
Thanks for sharing

[joelaf]

05:35 PM on 09/29/2009

Planet P Why me?

[Walcraeb]

04:39 PM on 09/29/2009

The guy's parents were killed in the holocaust, which he survived as a child.
His pregnant wife was murdered in cold blood because the Beatles "told" Manson to do it... or rather make a few misguided teenagers do it.
He ruined his career at its peak by having a drunken party sex weekend at Jack Nicholson's house with amongst others, a young girl who turned out to be VERY young.

No offense... but I think this guy's got the market cornered when it comes to the end of the innocence... and additional no offense, but I think he's got issues going on inside his psyche that most of us will thankfully never have to deal with.

The Victim wants the charges dropped.

Don't we as a nation have anything better to do? Doesn't the State of California have anything better to do.

Can he plea bargain his way out if he promises to cast the governator in something soon?

Why can't this just get let go?

[Garioch]

02:54 AM on 09/30/2009

Yup no point in prosecuting predatory rapists is there? Might as well just let those charges slide because he had a hard life.

[hidflect]

11:05 AM on 09/30/2009

A lot of my family were killed in WWII as well (British). You don't see me trying to make a cash industry out of it, do you? Or do you think I can come over and rape one of your family and tell you sad stories about 1939-1945 and just walk away, penalty free? The Jews are not "special". Everybody's suffered in their lives. Rapists go to the Big House and serve real time. End of story.

[rjmiller]

03:48 PM on 09/29/2009

"Soft as Snow" - My Bloody Valentine
"Handsome Devil" - The Smiths
"My Weakness" - A Place to Bury Strangers

[LMPE]

02:22 PM on 09/29/2009

"Little Girl" by Muddy Waters

PS: This isn't related, but the party scene in "Rosemary's Baby" features a guest appearance by Emmeline Henry, who played Amanda Bellows on "I Dream of Jeannie". Amanda could have told Jeannie, Tony, Roger and Alfred that there was a strangely pregnant woman at a New York party.

[Economike]

01:34 PM on 09/29/2009

Anything by Jerry Lee Lewis.

[David Wild]

02:23 PM on 09/29/2009

Great Balls of Fire, you are right

[medusa11]

01:30 PM on 09/29/2009

"I Saw Her Standing There"........ Beatles
"Edge of Seventeen"..........S. Nicks

[David Wild]

01:44 PM on 09/29/2009

Sadly, the young lady in question was not close to the edge of seventeen at the time, but a great song by a great lady, thanks.

[novodia9]

01:07 PM on 09/29/2009

how about "walk on the wildside", I think it's Lou Grant.

[David Wild]

01:44 PM on 09/29/2009

You know the Velvet Underground had spunk, and I love spunk.

[joelaf]

04:07 PM on 09/29/2009

Lou Reed

[gappedtoothgodwarrior]

05:36 PM on 09/29/2009

Oh come now, Ed Asner's cover version was DEFINITVE!!!! ;)

[novodia9]

01:05 PM on 09/29/2009

Young girl by gary puckett, my mom played that song all the time, but the older I got, the creepier it got. Now I've deleted it from my playlists

[seattle music]

02:46 AM on 09/30/2009

Co-sign. It makes the hair on the back of my neck stand up.

Shudder...

[joelaf]

12:15 PM on 09/29/2009

last 2 from me, I'm exhausted, lol.


Joe Jackson Number 2

Pat Travers Boom, Boom, Out go the Lights

[SpocksCuz]

11:41 AM on 09/29/2009

Back Door Man by The Doors

[JoeinNH]

08:24 PM on 09/29/2009

That is sick..........and a good one too!