Knife in the water
I was going to defend Roman Polanski against the idiot Twitter moralists demanding his head - seeing as it was was 32 years ago, the prosecutors apparently went back on the plea bargain, he's 76 now, the USA seems to have made no attempt to extradite him before, and the victim doesn't want him prosecuted. Then I started studying Roman Polanski's filmography trying to establish what work of his from the intervening 30 or so years constitutes a get-out-of-jail-free card. Is it the one where Hugh Grant plays an uptight Englishman? Casting Walter Matthau as a pirate? Making the 10,000,000th version of Oliver Twist that doesn't even have songs in it? The one where Harrison Ford runs around a lot? Maybe it's his acting - the time he played a policeman in Rush Hour 3, perhaps? Surely not casting Adrien Brody to play the piano in a concentration camp? I'd rather watch Schindler's List. Chinatown is fantastic, but that was 35 years ago; Repulsion is very good and even older, but I can think of few allegedly great directors I see less merit in. I think he's even indirectly to blame for The Darjeeling Limited, via the whole Brody thing. Bastard.
Also, why was Bill Wyman never sent to nonce's jail?
Also, why was Bill Wyman never sent to nonce's jail?