Roman Polanski

[discoprincess]

Oh, the pettiness! That shade! *





*Disclaimer: By no means am I laughing at the crime. I am laughing at the writer's pulling no punches about Polanski being a punk about the whole thing.

[esoterica]

Aww man! I loved her, too. It's like finding out someone's a clam or a Trump supporter. The love just dies. Polanski is the worst.

[Ninja Bunny]

I was hoping he was dead but I'll take some well-crafted shade for today.

[minky]

I find him repulsive, however, I just watched footage of him at a press conference after his wife's murder, and it is a heartbreaker. I had never seen it before. It's at the end of the Sharon Tate episode of Too Young To Die, on Netflix.

He stumbles over his words, trying to not cry. (My father also speaks English as second language with a European accent, and the broken quality is so familiar to me.)

All of you know how beautiful she was. And very often I've read and heard statements that she was one of most beautiful, if not the most beautiful woman of the wi—of the world. But only few of you know how good she was, in fact which will be coming out day after day will make a shame lot of newsmen, who for a selfish reason write, unbearable for me, horrible things about my wife.

[Babycakes]

Damn!! I got my hopes up, and thought he was dead. It would have been a great way to start 2017.

[Neurochick]

I thought he was dead too when I saw his name up there.

He should have done his time instead of running away. Back then, in the 70's, he probably wouldn't have done much time anyway.

[kateln]

Jan 3, 2017 1:09:15 GMT -4 Babycakes said:

Damn!! I got my hopes up, and thought he was dead. It would have been a great way to start 2017.

Me too.

[Ginger]

Jan 3, 2017 12:45:39 GMT -4 Neurochick said:

I thought he was dead too when I saw his name up there.

He should have done his time instead of running away. Back then, in the 70's, he probably wouldn't have done much time anyway.

Supposedly the reason why he fled is because the judge intended to make an example of him and give him the maximum of 30 years. I find that hard to believe and I'm confident that one way or another, he would not have served much time.

But no sympathy for somebody who doesn't fight it out in court like everybody else has to, and instead hopped on a private jet to flee. He felt like he only deserved a slap on the wrist but it's not up to the criminal to decide his own punishment.

[LurkerNan]

No way he would have gotten a harsh sentence back then. The judge would have slapped him on the wrist and winked at him when no one was looking. The seventies y'all... Evil Times.

[discoprincess]

Jan 3, 2017 15:04:36 GMT -4 Ginger said:

Jan 3, 2017 12:45:39 GMT -4 Neurochick said:

I thought he was dead too when I saw his name up there.

He should have done his time instead of running away. Back then, in the 70's, he probably wouldn't have done much time anyway.

Supposedly the reason why he fled is because the judge intended to make an example of him and give him the maximum of 30 years. I find that hard to believe and I'm confident that one way or another, he would not have served much time.

But no sympathy for somebody who doesn't fight it out in court like everybody else has to, and instead hopped on a private jet to flee.

It not as if he were being unfairly persecuted by a totalitarian and/or oppressively racist regime. Besides, had he received 30 years and served it, he'd be out by now anyway.