How'd They Get Away with THAT?

[Fraggle Rock]

I’m surprised there isn’t as much of an uproar about the Hilary Duff/Joel Madden relationship. Hilary was 16 and Joel was 25 when they started dating. I haven’t heard a peep.

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Wasn't it a similar situation with Lindsey Lohan and That 70's Show guy? Wasn't she 16 and he was 24 or so.

[roxpopuli]

I don't know a lot about the life of Judy Garland, but I've always had the impression she got a lot of second chances to re-start her career. She screwed up so many times (dropping out of projects at the last minute, showing up too messed up to do her scenes) that you would think eventually no one would dare to touch her. But she kept rising back up like a phoenix. All I can figure is her talent was so awesome that the powers that be couldn't resist taking "one last chance" on her.

Hollywood did the same thing with Robert Downey, Jr. Damn, even the legal system let him out of jail to work on projects. Could you imagine if one of us tried that? "Your honor, you need to let me out of jail. I'm a plumber and I have to go repair some pipes tomorrow."

[poodle]

No wonder all these girls claim to be virgins. Their boyfriends would be thrown in jail if they didn't.

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I think it's disgusting and weird that he not only raised his wife, he now has adpopted children with her.

I always thought their kids were biological, no?

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Woody and her had one biological son - Semus - or however you spell his name.

As for the others Woody claims they were not even his adoptive kids. She said Mia adopted them and they were her kids not his. He also claims he didn't raise Soon Yi nor does he consider himself her father figure and that he hardly spent any time living at Mia's house and kept his own seperate residence throughout the relationship with Mia.

I call bullshit.

[Fraggle Rock]

flipper said:

Wasn't it a similar situation with Lindsey Lohan and That 70's Show guy? Wasn't she 16 and he was 24 or so.

Yes. He dated Mandy Moore at one point too. How he gets away with dating barely legal teenagers is beyond me.

[speciousreasoning]

I am sooo glad someone else brought up the Roman Polanski rape thing. That angers up the blood so much. He raped a child and has never ever paid the price. I know what happened to his wife was horrible, but you don't get over your dead wife and baby by having sex with a child. Go get counselling or something. I have absolute sympathy for him losing his wife, but it certainly doesn't justify or exonerate him from what he did.
And all those celebrities who get in trouble with the law anywhere and get off with a slap on the wrist. How? Like you all have said, we would be in prison so fast...
What movie bugs me? The movie "Saving Private Ryan". It's a ground breaking movie showing the realism of war. But here are the things that really bug me - 1. Only Americans at Normandy? I know this is an American movie, but guess what? There were the British, the Canadian, the Australian, even the French resistance participating. Why didn't they show that? 2. Tom Hanks' character would never ever tell Private Ryan to "earn this" when he died. That's not how the army works. I only learned this from people I know in the army. It's disrespectful of the other dead soldiers and simply not how they do it. How did Steven Spielberg who claimed to be so "accurate" with his stuff mess those things up?

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Soon-Yi's legal father is composer Andre Previn.

"The Simpsons" gets away with a LOT. Like Kent Brockman making a crack about "we'll all be taking golden showers!" and Homer eating a gingerbread house and saying "Mmmmm...sugar walls!"

Maybe it's just me, but if I were Vera Moder, I'd have dumped his ass as soon as I found out he was cheating with Horseface.

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I call bullshit.

Actually, that's what I remember from Mia's autobiography as well, so her story corresponds. She never lived with Woody, she claims because he was freaked out by all the kids, and he only had dinner at her house maybe two or three times the 12 years they were together. That's one of the reasons Mia got suspicious of him and Soon-Yi, because when Soon-Yi started college she suddenly started hanging out with Woody, and prior to that they had exchanged maybe two sentences in the past ten years. So she was like WTF? Then she discovered the affair, etc. etc.

The aforementioned hippie who was extradicted from France was Ira Einhorn. He was American. Roman Polanski can't be extradicted from France to the U.S. because he was never an American citizen: he's Polish by birth and became a French citizen after moving there, IIRC, after surviving the Holocaust. France does not extradict their own citizens (neither does the U.S. IIRC).

The movie "Saving Private Ryan". It's a ground breaking movie showing the realism of war. But here are the things that really bug me - 1. Only Americans at Normandy? I know this is an American movie, but guess what? There were the British, the Canadian, the Australian, even the French resistance participating. Why didn't they show that?

::putting on WWII historian's cap:: Because the opening of the movie follows the character of Miller and his men from the 2nd Ranger Battalion landing at Omaha. There were five beaches in Operation Overlord: Utah, Omaha, Gold, Juno, Sword (in order from west to east). Utah and Omaha were American, Gold and Sword British, and Juno Canadian. The forces were segrated at that point: Utah Beach (4th Infantry Division), Omaha Beach (1st ID, 29th ID, 2nd and 5th Ranger Battalions), Gold Beach (British 50th ID), Juno (Canadian 3rd ID), and Sword (British 3rd). In addition, American 2nd Ranger Battalion took Pointe du Hoc, and the American 24th Cavalry and 4th Cavalry Squadrons (the latter being my grandfather's unit, shout out!) taking the Iles St. Marcouf Islands. From the air, the British 6th Airborne and the American 101st and 82nd hit behind Utah and Sword beaches, respectively.

Thus the total was 10 American divisions/battalions/units participating, 4 British divisions, and one Canadian division. It wouldn't have been until further inland when the forces would've hooked up for joint operations, although technically none of them were fighting under their own nation. All were part of the AEF; thus whether American, British, French or Canadian they answered either to Gen. Montgomery (British), commander of land forces, Leigh-Mallory (British) commander of Air Forces, and Dwight Eisenhower (American), supreme commander.