Is The Battle of The Sexes Over? Your Sexual Harassment And What To Do About It

Eli Davidson, 11.06.2009

Reinvention Expert, Executive Coach and Speaker

With such heated discussion on the topic of sexual harassment, I asked two of the top experts, Barry Halote, Ph.D., and Allan Gerson, Ph.D., to weigh in on the issue.

Polanski To Offer Cash and Cuddliness For Release

Michael Seitzman, 11.02.2009

Screenwriter, Director, Producer

Roman Polanski, the film director currently imprisoned in Switzerland, is planning to offer a new bail for his release this week.

Halloween Costumes Ripped From The Headlines

Glynnis MacNicol, 10.31.2009

Senior Editor, Mediaite.com

So it's the morning of Halloween, and you don't have a costume. You were going to be Kanye West, but the friend you were counting on to be your Taylor...

Polanski: What's On Trial?

Karin Badt, 10.31.2009

Professor of theater and cinema in France

What is fascinating about the Polanski case is that it is not particularly about Polanski.

Gore Vidal Has Lost His Mind

Ryan J. Davis, 10.28.2009

Theatre Director / Progressive Blogger

Why does this guy still get interviewed? Can't someone stop him from embarrassing himself? Doesn't someone have power of attorney? Isn't there anyone concerned with this guy's vanishing legacy?

Rosemary's Baby Revisited

Cathy Whitlock, 10.28.2009

Author, Cinema Style blogger, designer

As with most films, often the backstory and subsequent events surrounding the filming of Rosemary's Baby were equally as interesting as the script itself.

For Roman Polanski

Bernard-Henri Lévy, 10.28.2009

French philosopher and writer

I hardly know Roman Polanski. But I know that all those who, from close and from afar, join in this lynching will soon wake up, horrified by what they have done, ashamed.

Chinatown's 35th Anniversary Edition and the Polanski Scandal

William Bradley, 10.24.2009

California-based Political Analyst NewWestNotes.com

On the surface, it's a period detective picture. Beneath, it's much more. The film creates its own mesmerizing world through evocative music, costuming, and production design.

Polanski, My Daughter and Me: A Very Short Story

Paul Krassner, 10.24.2009

Author and Satirist

In 1977, I got a magazine assignment to cover the trial of Roman Polanski. My daughter Holly, who came with me, was then thirteen--the same age as the girl Polanski was accused of seducing.

Roman Polanski, Have I Got a Sentence for You!

Ellen Snortland, 10.16.2009

Why don't you help me and my colleagues in the personal safety community get the word out about a person's human right to protect themselves from emotional and physical harm?

What If We Indicted Léon Blum?

Bernard-Henri Lévy, 10.13.2009

French philosopher and writer

Writers who believed they were teaching us about a particular temptation, iniquity, perversion, or depravity: think twice, because they should know they will be thrown to the lions in public opinion.

Give Them What They Want: 5 Tips To Avoid Sexual Harrassment

Eli Davidson, 10.13.2009

Reinvention Expert, Executive Coach and Speaker

Has the heady fragrance of Breast Health Month made it Sexual Harassment Month?

"A Writer Close to the Power Elite": Interview With Robert Harris

Christina Patterson, 10.10.2009

Writer and Columnist for "The Independent"

It was while writing Pompeii six years go, and then reading Rubicon, that Harris first had the idea of using ancient Rome as a springboard for an exploration of the political process.

Enough With the David Letterman Hoopla Already!

Annie Stamell, 10.08.2009

pop culture junkie, Jaw Wired Shut

Okay. Ladies and Gentlemen of the media, please! Enough with this David Letterman hoopla already! You know something? I DON'T CARE! I don't. In fac...

Let Them Eat Cake

David Jones, 10.08.2009

President and CEO, Community Service Society of New York

We snicker about the blindness of Marie Antoinette before the outbreak of the revolution, but I'm starting to understand the very human wish to ignore what's painful and unpleasant.

Letterman's Stupid Human Trick

Todd Greene, 10.08.2009

Inventor and founder of HeadBlade

It was always nice to turn on the television and know David Letterman could summon out of us a few laughs, but now, for me and countless viewers, the funny is gone.

Celebrities Behaving Badly

BJ Gallagher, 10.06.2009

Sociologists tell us that deviance plays a positive role for society. Deviance shows us what happens with you cross certain boundaries - as well as what and where those boundaries are.

Polanski Punishment Should Fit the Crime - Period

Diane Dimond, 10.06.2009

Modern day journalist

The only question right now should be why Roman Polanski fled the United States 32 years ago and denied justice for the child in the first place. He'd pleaded guilty to the crime and ran away like a coward.

Poo Poo on Putting Polanski in Prison

Danielle Cavallucci, 10.06.2009

Co-author of "Your Orgasmic Pregnancy: Little Sex Secrets Every Hot Mama Should Know"

Wouldn't it serve the interests of justice and the American people more to devote the monies intended to be wasted on this sensational situation to solving real and pervasive problems?

Roman Polanski, And The Making Of A Legend

Megan Carpentier, 10.06.2009

Editor of News and Politics at Air America

Polanski, the master story-teller, has been refining his story for 30 years, weaving his little lies one by one into a cloak intended to shield him from both moral judgment and the legal system.

On the Polanski Affair

Bernard-Henri Lévy, 10.06.2009

French philosopher and writer

Arresting a man today, after it was decided long ago that he wasn't a pedophile, tracking him like a terrorist, and extraditing him like a former Nazi is perhaps right according to the law, but not according to justice.