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NEWS ABOUT: 'Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired'

'Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired' stories: 7 news summaries

 Cokie: 'Take 
 Polanski 
 Out and 
 Shoot Him' 

He 'drugged and raped a child,' says journalist

Oct 5, 09 3:59 AM CDT
(Newser) - It wasn't hard to figure out yesterday where journalist Cokie Roberts stands on the Roman Polanski case. "As far as I'm concerned, just take him out and shoot him," she declared on ABC's This Week. "Roman Polanski is a criminal. He raped and drugged and sodomized a... More »

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ABC • rape • Roman Polanski • 'Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired' • child rape • Cokie Roberts

Prosecutor: I Lied in Polanksi
Film About Misconduct

Wells now denies coaching judge on how to send director to jail

Oct 1, 09 1:47 AM CDT
(Newser) - A retired Los Angeles County prosecutor who told the creators of a documentary that he coached a judge on how to send Roman Polanski to prison despite a plea bargain now says he lied. David Wells—whose claims in Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired sparked accusations of misconduct and were... More »

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celebrity trials • prosecutor • Roman Polanski • 'Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired' • child rape

 Polanski Victim: 'I'm Over It' 

Mom of three is sick and tired of sordid case

Sep 28, 09 5:15 AM CDT
(Newser) - The woman Roman Polanski had sex with when she was 13 never wants to hear about the case again. "I have survived, indeed prevailed, against whatever harm Mr. Polanski may have caused me as a child," Samantha Geimer, 45, said early this year after filing court papers to... More »

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crime • France • Switzerland • sex • Roman Polanski • 'Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired' • Samantha Geimer • statutory rape

OPINION

 Polanski Judge 
 Wise to Resist 
 Whitewashing 

Director's bias skews media narrative

Feb 19, 09 10:25 AM CST
(Newser) - The judge who refused to throw out Roman Polanski's rape conviction Tuesday—unless he agreed to come back to the country to challenge it in person—was right to resist the whitewashing of Polanski's crime, writes Bill Wyman in Salon. The movement to rehabilitate the acclaimed director was based on... More »

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media • judge • documentary • film director • underage sex • bias • Roman Polanski • 'Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired' • sexual assault • child rape • statutory rape

Judge Rejects Polanski's Bid to Ax Sex Charge

Fugitive director must appear to close case
on sex with 13-year-old

Feb 18, 09 2:43 AM CST
(Newser) - A judge has cited Roman Polanski’s fugitive status as reason for rejecting the film director’s request to toss a 31-year-old child sex charge, E! Online reports. The judge conceded that a recent documentary on Polanski seems to demonstrate misconduct by prosecutors in the 1978 proceedings, but said the... More »

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fugitive • film director • Roman Polanski • 'Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired' • Samantha Geimer

 Polanski Sex Victim 'So Over It' 

Girl he drugged and raped, now 45, would like to see fugitive's case resolved

May 8, 08 10:00 AM CDT
(Newser) - Fugitive director Roman Polanski would be a free man in the US if it were up to the woman he drugged and had sex with when she was 13 years old. "He took advantage of me," Samantha Geimer, now 45 and mother of three told the Daily News.... More »

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fugitive • Roman Polanski • 'Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired' • Samantha Geimer

Dutch Brace
for Terror
Before Koran Shredding

Right-wing pol vows to air anti-Muslim film

Jan 21, 08 5:02 AM CST
(Newser) - The Dutch government expects violent protests in response to an anti-Muslim film—said to include images of the Koran being shredded—that a right-wing lawmaker has vowed to make public this month. Geert Wilders, one of nine members of an extremist party in the Dutch lower house, aims to expose... More »

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Islam • terrorism • Muslims • Netherlands • freedom of expression • Oliver Stone • Josh Brolin • Sundance Film Festival • Geert Wilders • Dutch government • 'Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired' • George W. Bush

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