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Thursday Oct 29 | DVD Times

Joseph Andrews

Joseph Andrews is a young man who is being educated by Parson Adams . Joseph catches the eye of Lady Booby , who employs him as her footman.

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Tue Oct 27, 2009

Hollywood.com

Peter Firth

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 ...

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Related Topix: Mystery Movies, Equus, Drama Movies, Shadowlands, Biography Movies, Science Fiction Movies, Joseph Andrews, Comedy Movies, Adventure, Letter to Brezhnev, Aces High, War Movies, Action Movies, Entertainment

Sun Oct 25, 2009

VietNamNet

The courts and a defendant's - contribution to society,

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

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Related Topix: Sex Scandal, Crime Movies, Horror Movies, Drama Movies, Chinatown, Thriller, Mystery Movies, Rosemary's Baby, Roman Polanski

Mon Oct 12, 2009

Los Angeles Times

Roman Polanski risked extradition back to U.S. as early as 1980, biographer says

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.

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Related Topix: Drama Movies

Sat Oct 10, 2009

Associated Content

Roman Polanski: Will He Do the Time?

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.

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Related Topix: Horror Movies, Drama Movies, Rosemary's Baby, Crime Movies, Chinatown, Thriller, Mystery Movies, Roman Polanski, Prison

Thu Oct 08, 2009

The Gazette

Why defend Polanski?

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.

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Related Topix: Horror Movies, Drama Movies, Rosemary's Baby, Crime Movies, Chinatown, Thriller, Mystery Movies, Repulsion, Roman Polanski

Tue Oct 06, 2009

CNN

Swiss fight Polanski appeal against arrest

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.

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Related Topix: Chinatown, Thriller, Mystery Movies, Crime Movies, Drama Movies, Horror Movies, Rosemary's Baby, Roman Polanski, Prison, Movies, Entertainment

Sun Oct 04, 2009

Glodderby

Poll: What do you think is Roman Polanski's greatest film?

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

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Related Topix: Crime Movies, Horror Movies, Drama Movies, Chinatown, Thriller, Mystery Movies, Rosemary's Baby, Roman Polanski

Fri Oct 02, 2009

The Globe and Mail

Irrelevant facts about Polanski

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.

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Related Topix: Drama Movies, Crime Movies, Horror Movies, Chinatown, Thriller, Mystery Movies, Rosemary's Baby, Roman Polanski

Wed Sep 30, 2009

Wizbang

not Rape Rape Press Release on the chilling arrest of Roman Polanski

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.

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Related Topix: Crime Movies, Horror Movies, Drama Movies, Chinatown, Thriller, Mystery Movies, Rosemary's Baby, Roman Polanski

CNN

Filmmakers demand Polanski's release

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.

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Related Topix: Chinatown, Thriller, Mystery Movies, Crime Movies, Drama Movies, Horror Movies, Rosemary's Baby, Roman Polanski, Los Angeles, CA, Movies, Entertainment

Tue Sep 29, 2009

Quebec Chronicle-Telegraph

Should Roman Polanski Be Held Accountable to His Own Guilty Plea?

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.

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Related Topix: Drama Movies, Roman Polanski, Los Angeles County, CA, State Prisons, Prison

The Sofia Echo

Bokova defends Polanski after legendary director's arrest

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.

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Related Topix: Crime Movies, Repulsion, Horror Movies, Drama Movies, Chinatown, Thriller, Mystery Movies, Rosemary's Baby, Roman Polanski

Mon Sep 28, 2009

CNN

Polanski plans to fight extradition to U.S.

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.

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Related Topix: Horror Movies, Chinatown, Thriller, Mystery Movies, Crime Movies, Drama Movies, Rosemary's Baby, Roman Polanski, France, World News

Seattle Post-Intelligencer

Polanski arrest puts latest film 'Ghost' on hold

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.

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Related Topix: Horror Movies, Chinatown, Thriller, Mystery Movies, Crime Movies, Drama Movies, Rosemary's Baby, Roman Polanski, Advertising, Movies, Entertainment

People

FLASHBACK: Victim Puts Polanski Sex Scandal Behind Her

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.

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Related Topix: Sex Scandal, Crime Movies, Drama Movies, Chinatown, Thriller, Mystery Movies, Horror Movies, Rosemary's Baby, Roman Polanski, Jack Nicholson

CNN

France stands by Polanski after sex case arrest

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.

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Related Topix: Chinatown, Thriller, Mystery Movies, Crime Movies, Drama Movies, Horror Movies, Rosemary's Baby, Roman Polanski, France, World News

Sun Sep 27, 2009

Slog

The Trap

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

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Related Topix: Horror Movies, Chinatown, Thriller, Mystery Movies, Crime Movies, Drama Movies, Rosemary's Baby, Roman Polanski

Fandango.com

Polanski lives through dazzling highs, dire lows

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.

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Related Topix: Chinatown, Thriller, Mystery Movies, Crime Movies, Drama Movies, Horror Movies, Rosemary's Baby, Comedy Movies, The Fearless Vampire Killers, Animation Movies, Short, Music!, History Movies, Repulsion, Macbeth

Tue Aug 04, 2009

The Daily Page

Wilmington on DVD: Repulsion, Anita O'Day, Powell and Keeler, and Fast and Furious

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.

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Related Topix: Horror Movies, Thriller, Repulsion, Drama Movies, Anita o'day, Jazz, Arts, Cinema, Roman Polanski, Catherine Deneuve

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