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...about documentaries at the Sundance Film Festival and the first to sell here this year, unfolds like a noir thriller about the director's notorious 1977 statutory rape case. But the shadowy villain in this film isn't Polanski - it's the judge who presided over his case, Laurence Rittenband. Through dozens of interviews and deft use of archival footage, director Marina Zenovich untangles the dense web of legal issues that surround the Chinatown director's sensational story and exile to France...
When Polanski was arrested for assaulting Gailey, his case drew the attention of Judge Rittenband, who had also presided over Elvis Presley's divorce, Marlon Brando's child-custody battle and a paternity suit against Cary Grant. Rittenband, in a manner reminiscent of the one-liner-dropping judge in the Anna Nicole Smith case, liked the spotlight. He even had a bailiff maintain a scrapbook of his newspaper clippings...
...marked the beginning of one of the most unique contests in the history of the College. Mrs. William L. Putnam had given $125,000 to the University so that Harvard could carry on scholastic contests with other institutions. One member of the Class of '29, L. James Rittenband of Brooklyn, N.Y., was included on the first team picked to represent the College against Yale. Also on the team was a senior from Council Bluffs, Ia., named Nathan Marsh Pusey. After the special examination papers had been marked by outside professors, it was announced the College had decisively topped Yale. Rittenband...
...middle of May the leading scholars of the class were Adams Blondis, Gierasch, Loud Marfield, Norris, Rittenband, Sardomire, and Seidel, all of whom placed in Group I for mid-year grades. And the captains for spring sports were O'Connell of track, Cole of 150 pound crew, Shapiro of lacrosse, and Prior of an eminently successful baseball team...
...mile in the IC4A championships in the Stadium, while in the first Harvard-Yale scholastic battle the Crimson, led by Nathan Pusey, won a close victory. The prize for the winners was a $125,000 contribution to the library. Pusey came in first in the contest, with L. J. Rittenband second, J. D. Merriam sixth, E. C. Wilkins seventh, J. E. Barnett ninth, and R. T. Sharpe tenth...