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...London's Tate Modern art gallery, a spotlight shines on a blank space where a photograph of a nude Brooke Shields, age 10, was supposed to hang. A sign warns, "This room contains images that some visitors may find challenging." The museum removed the image this week just before a new exhibition on Pop art opened. The reason: an unexpected visit by police to check out the controversial image. The photograph, which shows the young Shields standing in a bathtub and wearing heavy makeup, was displayed recently in New York City and Paris without contest, but the prestigious modern...
...British media-law expert Razi Mireskandari, whose firm Simon Muirhead & Burton has successfully defended the publication of sexually explicit photographs by Robert Mapplethorpe in the U.K., says Tate Modern would be unlikely to lose an obscenity case. The U.K.'s Obscene Publications Act defines as "obscene material" anything that would "tend to deprave and corrupt" the public. "That doesn't mean just 'upset or put off,' " says Mireskandari. But, he notes, the U.K.'s Protection of Children Act might come into play. "The key tests would be whether the child is posed provocatively, whether there was an element of lewdness...
...apprehension in Switzerland, after years of apparent inactivity in a case that is far more complicated than just an unpunished sex crime, which is how it has been debated through the week. (See a list of 25 crimes of the century, including the murder of Polanski's wife Sharon Tate...
...libel case against Vanity Fair over a 2002 article that claimed he had tried to seduce a woman on the way to Sharon Tate's funeral...
Quotes By: •"I don't think I would let myself be intimidated or overcome by anybody. I think I could have prevented it." - On his "tremendous feeling of guilt" for being in London instead of at home when Sharon Tate was murdered. Playboy, December...