Kate, I find it hard to be in judgment against Polanski because I just don't know the actuality. My recollection is - and I could be wrong here so if I am I hope someone can correct - that there were some questions about the validity of the charge and the testimony. Whether Polanski was guilty of just a horrid mistake in judgment or an actual criminal act, I do not know, but I have always suspected it was the former. And at that time period, being a Holocaust survivor having gone through the Manson killings losing his 8 months pregnant wife so brutally, I can comprehend a person who was not acting as I might prefer - presuming it was a horrid mistake in judgment in a consensual act as opposed to a criminal act. Given the time that has elapsed and that he has shown in his life redemption from his reeling after the Mason murders, I was applauding for him at home.
Just my thoughts. Vince PS - Mack - I sure don't mind that anyone here has less than my enthusiasm at Em winning his Oscar - we have been dancing on the Eminem lists. But your friend's point that Joni hasn't won an Oscar - I ask sincerely because I admit I do not know - has she ever written a song directly for the screen? I know she has never been nominated, but has she ever even written a song directly for the screen? If she has never done so and there is not an overlooked classic out there that should have been nominated, the fact that Em has won an Oscar and Joni hasn't doesn't bother me. I am wishing that Eminem had been there - I would have framed on my wall a picture of Streisand and Marshall Mathers together! And I appreciated your post a lot too. Kate Bennett wrote: >>Roman POlanski's THE PIANIST. Scorsese was the first (or among the first) >> >> >to give the absent >Roman Polanski his standing ovation. What it would have been like if its >really POlanski who is there while the handcuffs are being put on him. >Kiddin'.< > >i did not see the oscars but this is a strange situation...i don't >understand how people can give a standing ovation to polanski,
