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Although the cultural divide between Europe and the U.S. has narrowed over the years, the legal fate of director Roman Polanski shows there are still major differences. Polanski's arrest in Switzerland on Sept. 26 was greeted with satisfaction in the U.S., where authorities hope he will face sentencing for having sex with a 13-year-old girl in 1977. Europeans, meanwhile, are shocked and dismayed that an internationally acclaimed artist could be jailed for such an old offense...
...movies, hip-hop, websites or drugs not advertised on television. I wound up sending him several political bits, including one about the silliness of not wanting terrorist prisoners on American soil. "There are already too many things we don't want on our soil: carmakers, soccer, nuclear power, Roman Polanski, ants, Mexicans and French soil." I also gave him a spelling-bee riff. "I assume that in India, nothing is misspelled. And have you noticed that none of these seemingly genius kids go on to do anything? When will parents figure out that turning your kid into a Microsoft Word...
...addition to winning an Oscar in 1966 for his short film Le Poulet, Claude Berri helped craft the sensibility of French New Age cinema. He was known for his lush cinematography and neatly resolved plots, and he worked as a producer for directors such as Roman Polanski and Milos Forman. Berri...
...Thakoon Panichgul. Born in Bangkok, Panichgul?who extends his collection this month with a secondary line available at Barneys New York, Dover Street Market, London, and Lane Crawford, Hong Kong?moved with his family to Omaha, Neb., at age 11, where early glimpses of fashion magazines and the Roman Polanski film Rosemary's Baby made living in the city one day "something I had to do," he says. "Looking at New York in that way, so beautiful and so kind of surreal?Bangkok doesn't look like that. Any other city doesn't look like New York." Panichgul's initial...
...horror aficionado, but he has a technical perspective on everything he does. The script is far more structured than usual. It's the first thing I would do - assuming it gets made - that is not highly improvised. I've got a lot of ambitious ideas for it, inspired by Polanski and Kubrick and Argento himself. As much as I love the original, there are a lot of missed opportunities that I'm trying to go for in this...