Roman Polanski News

No Speed Read today. It's a holiday. Take your time. Put your feet up. And don't forget to leave room for pie: 1. A young adult book that won a National Book Award last week has resurrected the story of Claudette Colvin, who as a black teenager got arrested for refusing to give up her Montgomery, Ala., bus seat to a white woman even before Rosa ...

A Swiss official reported Friday, Roman Polanski will remain in a jail for at least three more days until he meets the security conditions of his bail.

Roman Polanski's family yesterday praised the role played by Nicolas Sarkozy in securing the film director's release on bail after two months in a Swiss prison.

The Swiss government has accepted a move to free film director Roman Polanski from prison on US$4.5 million bail.

Compiled by B.J. Hammerstein, editor of detroit.metromix.com. Contact him at 313-223-4528 or bjhammerstein@freepress.com . Polanski gets bail; photo on block Oscar-winning director Roman Polanski , 76, who has been jailed in Switzerland for the past two months, was granted bail of $4.5 million by a Swiss court Wednesday.

A nude photo of film director Roman Polanski, who is now being held in a Swiss prison, and his wife Sharon Tate taken shortly before she was brutally murdered, will be sold at an upcoming auction where it could fetch more than $10,000, organizers said.

Los Angeles, CA, November 21, 2009 -- When successful classical music composer and conductor, Phillip Lambro was hired by the acclaimed director Roman Polanski in 1974 to compose the film score to Chinatown, Lambro found himself thrown into one of the biggest power struggles in classic celluloid history between film director Roman Polanski and ...

Via Broadsheet. How often do we find individuals and entities using loaded metaphors for their own benefit while entirely disregarding or missing the point altogether, distorting the original meaning in the process.

LIKE many adopted children, Matthew Roberts set about finding his biological parents with a mix of nerves and excitement.

Oh dear me! When Roman Polanski drugged and raped the little 13-year-old child was he thinking about how upset she or her family would be? Imagine the gall on the part of Roman's shyster lawyer Herve Temime for trying to gain sympathy for Polanski by appealing to the suffering of his wife and 2 children due to his imprisonment awaiting extradition ...

Director Roman Polanski is still sitting in a Switzerland jail awaiting extradition to the United States for drugging and sodomizing a 13-year old girl in 1977.

The wife and two children of Roman Polanski are bearing the brunt of the director's imprisonment in Switzerland as he awaits a decision on his extradition, his lawyer said in an interview to be published Friday.

Glenn Beck edition, via Media Matters : Beck on health care: "We're the young girl saying 'no, no, help me,' and the government is Roman Polanski" He's almost beyond parody.

A Swiss court will decide in two or three weeks whether to release film director Roman Polanski on bail pending a decision on his extradition to the United States, a court official said Tuesday.

David Plouffe, President Obama's former campaign manager, is just full of revelations -- or at least his new book, "The Audacity to Win," is.

The TV show where the under aged meet the over respected. How can anyone think Polanski should be let off? A17 HOST: Its Blind Date: Roman Holiday edition! The show where we take Roman Polanski and a 13-year-old girl who he's never met - and see if they click! I'm your host, Skip Sparkle! Lets meet our first contestant.

Have you thought about your computer as an art-house movie theater, a showcase for classic silent films, unusual documentaries, a wide range of horror flicks and more? 'Tis true.

You know how you never think about something, and then something happens to wake you up, and then you notice that it has been there all along? Well, I'm having one of these moments.

Dear Ted: Am I the only one that found it ironic when Natalie Portman basically compared eating meat to condoning rape, considering that as a signer of the Roman Polanski petition she actually is condoning rape? I like her as an actress but that kind of crap is seriously making me rethink.

A hearing has been scheduled for next month in director Roman Polanski's effort to win dismissal of the 1977 sexual assault case that led to his arrest in September.