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The Last Word in Roman Polanski Commentary

Calvin Trillin: 'He only raped one little girl'

By M. Morris,  Newser Staff

Posted Oct 15, 2009 1:38 PM CDT

(Newser) – The debate raging over Roman Polanski—hairsplitting over the definitions of guilt, genius, and rape, among other pertinent terms—has been missing one thing: verse. Veteran journalist and author Calvin Trillin dons his poet hat to take up the slack, devastatingly. His latest contribution to the Nation's "Deadline Poet" feature lays out the plight of the fugitive director in elegant rhyming couplets: "He'll miss the movers and the shakers. / He'll never get to see the Lakers."

"How can these people get so riled?" Trillin wonders. " He only raped a single child. "

Directors Roman Polanski and Ken Loach arrive for the screening of the film Chacun Son Cinema (To Each His Own Cinema), at the 60th International film festival in Cannes, France, May 20, 2007.
Directors Roman Polanski and Ken Loach arrive for the screening of the film "Chacun Son Cinema" ("To Each His Own Cinema"), at the 60th International film festival in Cannes, France, May 20, 2007.   (AP Photo/Francois Mori)
Roman Polanski meets the media at the Artfilm international film festival in Trencin, Slovakia, June 30, 2007.
Roman Polanski meets the media at the Artfilm international film festival in Trencin, Slovakia, June 30, 2007.   (AP Photo,CTK/Eduard Genserek)
Journalist and poet Calvin Trillin attends a fundraiser in New York, April 27, 2004 ; news anchor Bill Hemmer is at right.
Journalist and poet Calvin Trillin attends a fundraiser in New York, April 27, 2004 ; news anchor Bill Hemmer is at right.   (Getty Images)
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COMMENTS
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Spudsy
Oct 16, 2009 12:54 PM CDT
I haven't heard Polanski calling for a retrial or mercy on the people that killed his wife. I guess he thinks he deserves one because some dopes call him a "genius".
Spudsy
Oct 16, 2009 12:51 PM CDT
You set aside one guilty plea and you have to do it for others that want it. We would have tens of thousands of retrials, at our expense with public defenders at our expense. Double jeopardy works both ways in Polanski's case.
riffran
Oct 16, 2009 8:55 AM CDT
i hope one of his last words in the commentary is "Mon dieu...I dropped ze soap...AHHHHHHHHH"

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