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This former child actor first gained attention and acclaim for his stage performance as Alan Strang the boy who mysteriously blinds horse in Peter Shaffer's well-received play "Equus". Peter Firth reprised the role in.... This former child actor first gained attention and acclaim for his stage performance as Alan Strang the boy who mysteriously ...

" It is generally agreed that respect for the law is a foundation of civilization.

In the wake of Roman Polanski's arrest last month, many people have asked why the famed director risked extradition back to the United States by attending a film festival in Zurich.

Roman has been thrust back into the spotlight again lately , being arrested in Switzerland for drugging, raping, and sodomizing a 13 year old girl by the name of Samantha Geimer in 1977.

I like "Chinatown" and "Rosemary's Baby" as much as the next person - "Tess," "Repulsion," and "The Pianist" are pretty good, too - but I'm still having a hard time understanding why anyone would bother defending Roman Polanski in the wake of his recent arrest on a decades-old charge of having unlawful sex with a 13-year-old girl.

The arrest warrant used to detain filmmaker Roman Polanski in Switzerland was valid, the Swiss Justice Ministry said Tuesday, making clear it will fight the director's appeal against his detention over a 1977 sex case.

More than half of respondents to our poll do not believe Roman Polanski deserved to win the Oscar for directing "The Pianist" in 2002.

Tabatha Southey Last updated on Friday, Oct. 02, 2009 08:09PM EDT T he list of things that are not relevant to the arrest of Roman Polanski begins with the film Chinatown and really just goes on and on from there.

The extradition, sentencing, and punishment of Academy Award winning Director Roman Polanski for drugging and raping a 13 year-old girl would represent a chilling assault on artistic freedom according to the National Organization of Tinseltown Recording Artists & Professional Entertainers Rallying Against Polanski's Extradition.

Woody Allen, Pedro Almodovar and Martin Scorsese have "demanded the immediate release" of fellow filmmaker Roman Polanski, who was arrested in Switzerland on a U.S. arrest warrant related to a 1977 child sex charge.

As noted in today's links , film director Roman Polanski was arrested over the weekend in Zurich and is being held in Switzerland pending an extradition request from the Los Angeles County district attorney's office.

Unesco's new Bulgarian Director-General designate, Irina Bokova, has condemned the arrest of renowned filmmaker Roman Polanski as "shocking". Polanski, 76, was detained on September 26 in Switzerland on a 31-year-old arrest warrant pertaining to charges of statutory rape dating back to 1977.

Filmmaker Roman Polanski, arrested in Switzerland over the weekend, will fight extradition to the United States where he faces sentencing for having sex with a 13-year-old girl, his California lawyers said Monday.

Roman Polanski's arrest in Switzerland has left his latest film in limbo, with several months of work before the political thriller is ready for theaters.

On a warm March evening in 1977, Polish director Roman Polanski had sex with a 13-year-old girl after a photo session led to champagne and Quaaludes in Jack Nicholson's hot tub.

French authorities expressed solidarity with Roman Polanski's family Monday after authorities arrested the filmmaker on a 1970s sexual-offense charge involving a 13-year-old girl.

Filmmaker Roman Polanski has been arrested on an arrest warrant stemming from a decades-old sex charge, Swiss police said Sunday.

Roman Polanski has lived through a striking collection of bizarre, triumphant and tragic events, his calamity rivaling some of the darkest horrors he has depicted on screen.

In Roman Polanski's shiveringly erotic horror film Repulsion , the 22-year-old Catherine Deneuve plays Carol, a blond French beauty, with a disarmingly lost-looking and childlike face and a disturbingly sexy, nubile body -- a girl who begins to go frighteningly mad when her older sister Helen leaves her alone a week or so, for a trip back to Paris.