Roman Polanski: CAPTURED!
September 28, 2009 Comments
In case you didn't hear the news, don't expect Roman Polanski to be home for dinner tonight. The 76-year-old director of Rosemary's Baby, Chinatown, and The Pianist was finally taken into custody in Switzerland yesterday on an arrest warrant from his 1977 charges of "giving a 13-year-old some champagne and quaalude and doin' 'er."
Now Polanski--who's been hiding out in France since the '70s, laying low by making Academy Award-winning films--may face extradition to the US, where his crime would certainly be dealt with one or another. Trial? Appeal? Formal pardon? Probably none of the above. If I know America, this sounds like a case so complicated it can only be settled with vigilante justice. At least if Toby Keith has his say.