Word: stanger
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...French view Polanski as an artist and celebrity and feel he deserves a different kind of treatment than ordinary people, which just isn't an option in the U.S.," says Ted Stanger, an author and longtime resident of France who has written extensively on the differing public views and attitudes across the Atlantic. "The French in particular, and Europeans in general, don't understand why it isn't possible for American officials to intervene and say, 'Hey, it's been over 30 years and things look a little different now. Let's just forget this thing.' " (Read "More Sex, Please...
...Polanski's fans across Europe decry his detention, his lawyers say they're filing appeals of both his arrest and eventual transfer to the U.S. "To the French mind, this has made Polanski a combination of Oscar Wilde and Alfred Dreyfus - the victim of systematic persecution," Stanger says. "To the American mind, he's proof that no one is above the law." That's a perception gap as wide as the Atlantic...
...Golden State hausfraus of Bravo's reality hit The Real Housewives of Orange County, whose concerns are boob jobs, baubles and Botox. ("One of my biggest goals now is to look as hot as I can," declares one.) And in Bravo's The Millionaire Matchmaker, dating guru Patti Stanger hooks up single women with sugar daddies, warning one not to introduce herself as a doctor: "If you lead with your business foot, the man's ding-dong down there neutralizes and goes down. He doesn't want to compete in the bedroom...
...reporters that she was an unfit mother. Her son, it turns out, had been used twice before on smuggling trips. In L.A., at first, "he was sick and scared. He would sleep 45 minutes at a time and wouldn't let us turn the lights off," says Jennifer Stanger of the Coalition to Abolish Slavery and Trafficking. "Now he plays hide 'n' seek." He's been toyed with enough...