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.
Posted 10.12.2009 | Media
Legal expert Star Jones will discuss Roman Polanski's arrest on 'The Insider' tonight. CBS released the following statement: Jones sounds off on dir...
Ariel Gonzalez | Posted 10.07.2009 | Entertainment
A middle-aged man who treats a 13-year-old girl like an inflatable sex doll, and who then flees justice, is a degenerate and a coward. This is Humbert Humbert, not Nelson Mandela.
Danielle Cavallucci | Posted 10.06.2009 | Entertainment
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?
Megan Carpentier | Posted 10.06.2009 | Entertainment
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.
Bernard-Henri Lévy | Posted 10.06.2009 | Entertainment
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.
Alafair Burke | Posted 10.03.2009 | Media
Letterman, despite whatever idiotic (or worse?) things he may have done with women on his staff, was wise enough to realize that silence isn't permanent and peace of mind can't be bought.
Jamie Lee Curtis | Posted 10.03.2009 | Politics
David Letterman makes this revelation about his personal life because he was being extorted. I understand he was staying ahead of the wave, and I commend him for it, but really, is this any of our business ?
AP | GREG RISLING | Posted 10.03.2009 | Entertainment
LOS ANGELES — Film director Roman Polanski agreed to pay his sexual assault victim $500,000 to settle a lawsuit 15 years after he fled the Unite...
Beth Arnold | Posted 10.04.2009 | World
Who is seeking justice in the Roman Polanski case, and why now? There is plenty of speculation about this, and I doubt the most accurate reason is any of those being publicly touted.
Posted 10.02.2009 | Entertainment
Now that everyone from Sharon Tate's sister to Governor Schwarzenegger has weighed in on Roman Polanski's arrest, Chris Rock is having his say. On '...
GlobalPost | Posted 10.02.2009 | World
WARSAW, Poland -- When Roman Polanski was arrested by Swiss authorities on a 32-year-old rape charge, the first reaction of many Poles was to immediat...
Vicki Iovine | Posted 10.02.2009 | Living
Why is there all this sentimentalism and taking of sides on the issue of whether film director Roman Polanski should serve his time?
Allison Anders | Posted 10.01.2009 | Entertainment
Art should never be held above our decency to each other. And when an artist commits a crime, especially a sex crime and especially against a child, we do art no favor by giving artists a break we would not give anyone else.
Michael Seitzman | Posted 10.01.2009 | Entertainment
Maybe Whoopi Goldberg, who said of the Roman Polanski case, "I know it wasn't rape-rape," can take a look at this transcript from Polanski's hearing and explain to us which kind of rape this is.
Jillian York | Posted 10.01.2009 | Media
In her piece, Applebaum claims that Polanski has paid for his crime of raping a 13-year-old girl "in notoriety, lawyers' fees, in professional stigma." Oh, the humanity.
Eve Ensler | Posted 09.30.2009 | Entertainment
No one is arguing the genius of Roman Polanski, or even the pain and tragedy of his difficult life. But in the end, that has nothing to do with the crime he committed.
Chez Pazienza | Posted 09.30.2009 | Entertainment
Filmmakers, intellectuals, Gen Xers, movie geeks, and meth addicts from across the country and around the world are dismayed by the sentencing of Roger Avary, Oscar-winning co-writer of Pulp Fiction.
Huffington Post | Posted 09.30.2009 | Entertainment
HuffPost blogger reactions to the arrest of acclaimed film director Roman Polanski have covered the gamut. Scroll down to see the variety of perspect...
Jayne Lyn Stahl | Posted 10.01.2009 | Politics
Roman Polanski plead guilty. He admitted culpability in the civil matter, and the victim received a settlement for an undisclosed sum.
Roy Rivenburg | Posted 09.30.2009 | Comedy
"It was such a terrible movie, we really had no choice," said Los Angeles District Attorney Steve Cooley.
Kim Morgan | Posted 10.01.2009 | Entertainment
My last post caused a flurry of outraged comments. Though many readers appreciated my essay, many slammed me for what they read as a defense of Polanski through his movies, Repulsion in particular.
Craig Alan Silverman | Posted 09.29.2009 | Denver
Lineage and religion -- they are killer topics. It's not easy to escape religious roots. No one makes their own choice at birth regarding religion, yet ancestry and religious rules decide a lot.
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 09.29.2009 | Media
Roman Polanski has been arrested in Switzerland and is facing extradition to the United States because he was convicted of having unlawful sex with a ...
Eugene Volokh | Posted 09.29.2009 | Entertainment
Generosity in the Polanski case would be a misplaced generosity. The only person who rightly deserves generosity is the victim, who understandably doesn't want a fresh outbreak of publicity.
Bernard-Henri Lévy | Posted 10.28.2009 | Entertainment