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Originally posted by KSigkid
I'm surprised no one mentioned Roman Polanski - he slept with a 14 year old (maybe 13, i forgot), had to leave the US to avoid prosecution, and won an Oscar.
Now how about that?
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I think that most people on this board don't have RP as a frame of popular culture reference--hence the omission. He's been out of the country for what, 25 years? It's not as if he's fallen out of the public eye entirely (at least not in film circles), I read interviews with him discussing his life in Paris well before the success of The Pianist. I think he should be a man and come over here, he will probably receive a suspended sentence, and go back to Paris and continue his life.
kddani, you may not have intended to turn this into a racial incident, but some of the people who responded to the post made blanket statements that could have been construed as thinly veiled bigotry. Before I called said respondents to task, I mentioned the inherent differences between the R Kelly controversy and the Dixie chicks thing by discussing factors which impacted the way the public viewed each incident.
What aRHOgantdeuce22 said about how how no one is really "patriotic" until there's a national crisis is absolutely true. I also imagine that there are some people on this board, if this had happened three years ago, would have been agreeing with the Dixie Chicks if they said they had been ashamed to be from Arkansas. Consistency, people!
