Comments on: Oops! Polanski’s appeal weakens still further

By: neo-neocon

neo-neocon — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 02:46:13 +0000

logern: That’s a good one. I’ve always enjoyed Trillin’s food articles, and I thought highly of his tribute to his wife.

I especially like the lines “Celebrities would just be fools/To play by little people’s rules.”

Also, it always irks me that people make so much of the idea that Polanski was cruelly “exiled” from LA. I wonder how many of them know that he’s not a US citizen.

By: logern

logern — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 02:01:34 +0000

A youthful error? Yes, perhaps.
But he’s been punished for this lapse–
For decades exiled from LA
He knows, as he wakes up each day,
He’ll miss the movers and the shakers.
He’ll never get to see the Lakers.
For just one old and small mischance,
He has to live in Paris, France.
He’s suffered slurs and other stuff.
Has he not suffered quite enough?
How can these people get so riled?
He only raped a single child.

Why make him into some Darth Vader
For sodomizing one eighth grader?
This man is brilliant, that’s for sure–
Authentically, a film auteur.
He gets awards that are his due.
He knows important people, too–
Important people just like us.
And we know how to make a fuss.
Celebrities would just be fools
To play by little people’s rules.
So Roman’s banner we unfurl.
He only raped one little girl.

http://www.thenation.com/doc/20091026/trillin

By: Nolanimrod

Nolanimrod — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 00:17:11 +0000

And would that be THE Marcia Clark, she of the subtle legal mind and constantly changing hairdos?

By: neo-neocon

neo-neocon — Sat, 03 Oct 2009 17:11:50 +0000

Alex Bensky: Does it matter at all that the judge in question in this case is deceased?

By: southernjames

southernjames — Sat, 03 Oct 2009 15:37:13 +0000

“I wonder if she takes the same view on the daughter’s table manners.”

I of course don’t know what goes on in that household, but often, people like Whoopi (immensely rich celebrities who are also self absorbed narcissists) probably have no IDEA what their child’s table manners are like on a day-to-day basis.

Nanny, Au Pair, Cook, Housekeeper, et al….they take care of the day-to-day routine with the kid. When she is at home for holidays and not away at the $75,000/year elite boarding school. Mommy Dearest “schedules” in some “quality time” a few hours here and there during the week. Comes to watch the kid’s tennis lesson, etc.

By: Alex Bensky

Alex Bensky — Sat, 03 Oct 2009 13:56:40 +0000

I assume Mr. Wells is confident that he is well-connected. I am about the most obscure lawyer in Michigan and I have a feeling that if I had publicly accused a judge of improper collusion in a sentencing the state bar’s grievance committee would take a very dim view of it.

I don’t know his state’s rules but that sort of statement, especially when it’s absolutely false, is not only considered defamatory, it goes far beyond any acceptable legal practice.

I don’t think I need to say much about his belief that bringing a judge and the American legal system into disrepute in a foreign country is OK.

My favorite part of Whoopi Goldberg’s statement was when asked if she’d approve of her fourteen year old daughter having sex she said, “probably not.” She’s willing to consider a child of hers that age having sex and a topic for consideration. I wonder if she takes the same view on the daughter’s table manners.

By: Artfldgr

Artfldgr — Sat, 03 Oct 2009 02:35:21 +0000

At least it stops the gary glitter jokes…

By: T

Sat, 03 Oct 2009 01:37:43 +0000

Neo,

Not “persuasion”, but “documentary” makers.

By: kcom

kcom — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 23:04:31 +0000

It’s hard to believe a prosecutor would say that under any circumstances if it wasn’t true so I’m not sure I’m willing to take his word for it now that it wasn’t.

By: southernjames

southernjames — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 20:40:34 +0000

Did he actually lie lie, or did he merely just lie? Better check with Whoopi.

There is embellish, and then there is embellish embellish.