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Sunday Oct 25 | Boston Globe

Orphans get dolled up for another spoof

Penny Champayne, Afrodite, and Bananas Foster in the Gold Dust Orphans' production of "Valet of the Dolls.'' In a conversation that touches on bestiality, the Smurfs, and giant tap-dancing hypodermic needles, the funniest thing Ryan Landry says is this: "I don't do minimalism.'' Landry, of course, is the cofounder and main force of nature behind ...

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Related Topix: Life, Holidays, Christmas, Drama Movies, Valley of the Dolls, Music!, Barbara Parkins

Fri Oct 23, 2009

PeoriaTimes-Observer

Video Vault: 'Rosemary's Baby' creepy from start to finish

Whatever your opinion of the current Roman Polanski controversy, one thing is clear: "Rosemary's Baby" is a heck of a movie.

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Related Topix: Horror Movies, Drama Movies, Rosemary's Baby, Roman Polanski, Entertainment

Thu Oct 15, 2009

The Huffington Post

Roman Polanski's Lawyers Meet With DOJ, Argue Against Extradition

Roman Polanski lost the first round Tuesday in his battle to avoid extradition to the U.S. for having sex in 1977 with... Cokie Roberts On Polanski: "Just Take Him Out And Shoot Him" A surprising number of celebrities and media figures have come to the defense of Roman Polanksi, arguing that the famous director should not have to... LOS ANGELES - ...

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Tue Oct 13, 2009

Examiner.com

Roman Polanski vs. Cokie Roberts

A lot of people would like to see Roman Polanski's head on a platter, Cokie Roberts included, now that the wily director is in Swiss custody for the 1977 rape of then 13 year old Samantha Geimer.

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Related Topix: Chinatown, Thriller, Mystery Movies, Crime Movies, Drama Movies, Horror Movies, Comedy Movies, The Fearless Vampire Killers, Roman Polanski, Jack Nicholson

Sun Oct 11, 2009

San Bernardino County Sun

Memories of Charles Manson remain fresh in Death Valley

The isolated cabin in Death Valley where Charles Manson and his followers planned their murder sprees and where he was later arrested was gutted by a fire in May.

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Related Topix: Death Valley, CA, State Prisons, Prison, San Bernardino County, CA

Sat Oct 10, 2009

New York City's Hometown Newspaper - ...

Crouch: Roman's unforgivable sin

Some things are forgivable, others are not. Some are so deep that they transcend time, which only the naive believe heals all wounds.

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Related Topix: Roman Polanski, Opinion

Fri Oct 09, 2009

Salt Lake Tribune

Culture Vulture: Sorting out facts in the Polanski case

The talk and counter-talk about Roman Polanski has grown so fierce, I can't even think straight.

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

Thu Oct 08, 2009

McClatchy DC

Commentary: Polanski's pals twist the truth about rape case

In our new era of teachable moments, nothing has been so educational to me as Roman Polanski's arrest in Switzerland last week for having sex with a 13-year-old girl.

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Related Topix: Roman Polanski, Los Angeles, CA, The View, Entertainment, Television, Prison

Wed Oct 07, 2009

Frontpage Mag

Child Rape and the Values of People Who Make Films a " by Dennis Prager

Posted by Dennis Prager on Oct 6th, 2009 and filed under FrontPage . You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 . You can leave a response or trackback to this entry "In defending the director , the entertainment industry faces a risk that it will seem out of touch with the audiences it seeks to connect with at the movie house." ...

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Related Topix: Roman Polanski, Prison

Tue Oct 06, 2009

The Huffington Post

Bernard-Henri Levy: On the Polanski Affair

Sexually abusing a 13-year-old girl is obviously a serious crime. And being an artistic genius never constituted, for any crime, an attenuating circumstance.

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Related Topix: Prison, Roman Polanski

Reading Eagle/Reading Times

How can anyone support an admitted child rapist?

How can anyone support an admitted child rapist? The Issue: French and Polish officials try to intervene on behalf of Roman Polanski.

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Related Topix: Prison, Roman Polanski

Mon Oct 05, 2009

E! Online - The Awful Truth

Roman Polanski's Victim Speaks Out: "It's Extremely Unpleasant"

Hollywood is fiercely divided yet again regarding Roman Polanski 's 1977 rape of Samantha Geimer , who was 13 at the time.

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Sun Oct 04, 2009

The Age

May 19, 2007 file photo of French director Roman Polanski

MAIN: Roman Polanski leaves court in California in 1977. FROM LEFT: Polanski and Sharon Tate in the 1960s; Samantha Geimer last year; and Polanski earlier this year.

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Related Topix: Repulsion, Horror Movies, Drama Movies, Thriller, Rosemary's Baby, Roman Polanski, Prison

Sat Oct 03, 2009

Philly.com

Christine M. Flowers: Polanski's Perversions

EVERY NOW and then, life provides us with an interesting sort of symmetry. Last week, Susan Atkins, one of the female disciples of Charles Manson, died in prison - four decades after vivisecting a nine-months pregnant Sharon Tate.

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Related Topix: Roman Polanski, Opinion

Fri Oct 02, 2009

Guardian Unlimited

Should Roman Polanski be above the law?

The Chinatown director's arrest on a 32-year-old charge of underage sex has outraged the French government and his fellow film-makers. But then, France has a long tradition of treating artists differently Film director Roman Polanski and his wife Sharon Tate in 1965, four years before she was murdered.

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Related Topix: Chinatown, Thriller, Mystery Movies, Crime Movies, Drama Movies, Roman Polanski, Gay/Lesbian

Thu Oct 01, 2009

The Miami Herald

UK's Tate Modern temporarily shuts exhibition

Brazil police say they have arrested more than 800 people in an operation against fugitives across Brazil's most populous state.

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Related Topix: Prison, Roman Polanski, Miami, FL, Miami Metro

Wed Sep 30, 2009

Australian Broadcasting Corporation

Thirty years after he fled sentencing in the US on a child sex...

Barbara Miller reported this story on Monday, September 28, 2009 12:33:00 ELEANOR HALL: He should have been the guest of honour at the Zurich Film Festival, but instead Roman Polanski spent Sunday in a Swiss jail facing extradition to the United States.

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

CBS News

Tate's Sister: Polanski Won't Get Fair US Trial

Debra Tate, the sister of Roman Polanski's second wife, actress Sharon Tate, says Polanski is brilliant and a "good guy" and she doesn't think her former brother-in-law can get a fair trial in the United States.

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Related Topix: Roman Polanski, Movies, Entertainment

Tue Sep 29, 2009

CJAD

Manson Family member Susan Atkins, who admitted killing actress Sharon Tate, dies in prison

By: Linda Deutsch, THE ASSOCIATED PRESS LOS ANGELES - Susan Atkins, a member of the Charles Manson "family" who admitted ruthlessly stabbing pregnant actress Sharon Tate to death in the cult's 1969 murder spree, has died in prison less than a month after a parole board turned down a bid for compassionate release.

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Related Topix: Prison, Drama Movies, Valley of the Dolls, Music!, California, California Government

SFGate

L.A. is not 'Chinatown'

Our Betters in Europe, of course, are outraged that Switzerland arrested and may extradite film director Roman Polanski, 76, a fugitive from California justice after he pleaded guilty to unlawful sex with a 13-year-old in 1977.

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Related Topix: Chinatown, Thriller, Mystery Movies, Crime Movies, Drama Movies, Rap, Roman Polanski, Prison

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