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.
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.
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.
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.
Chez Pazienza | Posted 09.29.2009 | Entertainment
It's true we let talented people get away with quite a bit more than the Average Joe in our society. But Roman Polanski shouldn't be able to avoid prison just because he's Roman Polanski.
Jennifer Lehr | Posted 09.29.2009 | Entertainment
Given Roman Polanski's history as a persecuted Jew during the Holocaust, I can understand his panicking, skipping bail and fleeing the United States. ...
Michael Seitzman | Posted 10.03.2009 | Entertainment
Some of the get-out-of-jail-free crowd thinks that the reason Polanski should go free is because he's a gifted artist. Okay, I'll accept the premise. Maybe you're right. Instead of an Oscar we should let the Best Director f**k your kids.
Posted 09.28.2009 | Technology
**See Photo Below** Wikipedia administrators have blocked filmmaker Roman Polanski's Wikipedia page from being changed after an 'edit war' broke out ...
AP | LINDA DEUTSCH | Posted 06.07.2009 | Entertainment
LOS ANGELES — A judge on Thursday dismissed Roman Polanski's bid to throw out a decades-old sex case because the fugitive director failed to app...
AP | LINDA DEUTSCH | Posted 01.02.2009 | Entertainment
LOS ANGELES — Lawyers for Roman Polanski, a fugitive for 30 years in a notorious sex case involving a 13-year-old girl, filed a request Tuesday ...
Bernard-Henri Lévy | Posted 10.28.2009 | Entertainment