So what’s going on with the Roman Polanski case? We have a friend going to Switzerland on business and we jokingly suggested he should try and make international headlines by trying to bust him out of the pokey, but otherwise, there’s not a lot going on aside from a waiting game.
According to the L.A. Times, Polanski is depressed and in a “unsettled state of mind.”
We’re surprised the press hasn’t tried to contact his famous wife, French actress Emmanuelle Seigner (not that we condone that kind of hounding) or that she hasn’t spoken out yet on his behalf. Seigner, who is also a pop singer in France, recently had her new album’s release date moved from next month to an indefinite 2010 date, because of a potential controversial duet with her husband that’s on one song on the LP.
Meanwhile, the New York Times continues to try and show how social mores in the 1970s were much different. The most recent example, Woody Allen (errrr)’s 1979 film, “Manhattan,” where Mariel Hemingway’s character says, “Guess what, I turned 18 the other day. I’m legal, but I’m still a kid.” Uhh, we’re not touching that one.
According to the Times, Polanski’s lawyers are going to argue that the filmmaker does not even qualify for extradition from Switzerland, because he was set to be given a jail term of less than one year when he fled to France in 1978, but the L.A. District attorney is zeroing in on something much more severe if he can get it and says Polanski was given a “very, very, very lenient sentence.” Can they renege on what he was initially sentenced with? Haven’t they reneged enough in this case?
Polanski has been in prison for three weeks now.