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Ain't it bitter?
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/30/movies/30polanski.html?_r=1&em
I hate to play the race card (and I'm white) but it's so obvious what's happening here:
Polanski did it - yet he recieves big support.
Michael didn't do it - no support for him.
Disgusting!
Nearly 100 entertainment industry professionals, including the movie directors Pedro Almodóvar, Wong Kar Wai and Wim Wenders, urged in a petition that Mr. Polanski be released, saying: “Filmmakers in France, in Europe, in the United States and around the world are dismayed by this decision.”
Ronald Harwood, who won an Oscar as screenwriter of “The Pianist,” which Mr. Polanski directed, said: “It’s really disgraceful. Both the Americans and the Swiss have miscalculated.”
Jack Lang, a former French culture minister, said that for Europeans the development showed that the American system of justice had run amok.
“Sometimes, the American justice system shows an excess of formalism,” Mr. Lang said, “like an infernal machine that advances inexorably and blindly.”
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/30/movies/30polanski.html?_r=1&em
I hate to play the race card (and I'm white) but it's so obvious what's happening here:
Polanski did it - yet he recieves big support.
Michael didn't do it - no support for him.
Disgusting!