Israel to Honor Poles Who Hid Polanski During WWII
Israel will on Thursday honor the Polish couple who hid Oscar-winning director Roman Polanski from the Nazis as a child, the Holocaust memorial Yad Vashem said.
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Wanted: Girlfriend to Fly to the Moon With Japanese Billionaire
A Japanese billionaire has launched an online wanted ad for a girlfriend who will fly around the moon with him on a SpaceX rocket.
Read morePolanski v. Oscar
Fighting fugitive film director Roman Polanski’s legal efforts for reinstatement, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences told a judge Polanski got an opportunity to fight his expulsion from the academy – which still voted to expel him afterward by a two-thirds supermajority.
Read moreOscar Ousts Cosby
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, sponsor of the Oscar awards, voted this week to oust Bill Cosby and Roman Polanski as members.
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Judge Refuses to Dismiss Roman Polanski Rape Case
A California judge on Friday rejected fugitive filmmaker Roman Polanski’s latest effort to have his 40-year-old rape case dismissed.
Read moreWoman Says Roman Polanski ‘Victimized’ Her in 1973
Another woman came forward Tuesday claiming that fugitive filmmaker Roman Polanski “sexually victimized” her in Southern California when she was 16 years old.
Read morePolanski’s Bid to End Sex-Abuse Case Rejected
A Los Angeles judge has rejected Roman Polanski’s bid to end his long-running underage sex abuse case without the fugitive director appearing in court.
Read morePolanski Demands No Jail Time for Return to US
Filmmaker Roman Polanski’s defense attorney asked a state court judge on Monday to lift a warrant to allow Polanski to return to the United States in order to seek a sentence of time served for having unlawful sex with a 13-year-old girl in 1977.
Read morePoland’s Top Court Upholds Refusal to Extradite Polanski
Poland’s Supreme Court on Tuesday confirmed that the country would refuse to detain and extradite filmmaker Roman Polanski to the United States.
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