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	Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired - Movie - Review - The New York Times
		Roman Polanski at a court appearance in Los Angeles in 1977.
		Polanski’s likability, his tragic past, morals, short stature, brilliant and bad films, the sleaze factor or your personal feelings on whether there’s anything wrong with a 43-year-old man’s having sex with a 13-year-old girl.
		Polanski, even when presenting the sordid and grimly pathetic details of his crime, like the Champagne and partial Quaalude he furnished the 13-year-old girl and her repeated nos.
	movies.nytimes.com /2008/03/31/movies/31roma.html?em&ex=1213243200&en=72d0215414afb572&ei=5087 (860 words)

	Roman Polanski - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Roman Polański at Cannes with Adrien Brody, 2002
		Raymond Roman Polański was born in Paris, France as Rajmund Liebling to Ryszard Polański (aka Ryszard Liebling), a Polish Jew, and Bula Polanska (née Katz), who was born in Russia to a Jewish father and Roman Catholic mother.
		(In Roman by Polanski, Polanski alleged that the mother had set up the daughter as part of a flmail scheme against him.) It was alleged the director drugged her with quaaludes and alcohol, and then proceeded to have sexual intercourse with her.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Roman_Polanski (2701 words)

	Roman Polanski Vision - Biography
		Roman Polanski was born to Polish parents in Paris 1933.
		Whenever Roman had a chance to visit the theatre he had no uncertainties that one day he would appear on centre stage or behind the camera as a director, Roman was an incredibly confident child with grand aspirations.
		Roman was told it was because they were Jewish, although his parents did not practice their religion and his mother was only partly Jewish.
	minadream.com /romanpolanski/Biography.htm (842 words)

	TV TV Review: 'Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired'
		Time has swept away the particulars of Roman Polanski’s life, honing it to a single sentence: His wife was murdered by Charles Manson and he fled the country after being arrested for having sex with a 13-year-old, which torpedoed a promising career as a director in Hollywood.
		“Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired,” instead, is a documentary by Marina Zenovich that turns back the clock and reminds viewers of all the complications that got excised in the Cliffs Notes version of his life.
		Polanski was set to be placed on probation when a series of public-relations glitches stirred public opinion, causing the judge to renege on their agreement and opt to sentence the director to jail time.
	www.la.com /tv/TV_Review_Roman_Polanski_Wanted_and_Desired.html (617 words)

	Roman Polanski Media Reports Archive: The Zero 5.0laf - The Official Website of Andrew Vachss
		LOS ANGELES, March 12, 1977 —; Polish film director Roman Polanski, widower of murdered actress Sharon Tate, was free on bond today on charges of luring a 13-year-old girl to the home of Jack Nicholson under the pretext of photographing her, then drugging and raping her.
		Polanski, 43, remained free on $2,000 bail and was given until Tuesday to surrender in Superior Court.
		Film director Roman Polanski arrived at his Paris apartment yesterday (after a stop in London) having fled the United States just hours before he was to have been sentenced in a California court for his admitted unlawful sexual relations with a 13-year-old girl last March.
	www.vachss.com /mission/roman_polanski.html (2233 words)

	Kinoeye \| Roman Polanski, The Pianist & the victim's double vision
		Polanski's own life was marked by experiences of utmost victimization (but also by survival), which would have given him an intimate insight into this potential of ordinary people to become victimizers given the right circumstances, articulated in his films.
		Polanski escaped by being pushed through the hole in the wall of the Ghetto by his father, and survived the war in the countryside and as a member of street gangs.
		Polanski's reigning ‘anti-realist' bias: an ingenious master of artifice and stylisation, Polanski always begins by turning the human body and the actor's performing style into a kind of exaggerated cartoon, in all aspects of costume, posture, gesture and vocal tone.
	www.kinoeye.org /04/05/crnkovic05.php (8550 words)

	5 Directors
		Crime Library on the Web.) Polanski, who was in Europe at the time of the killings, was distraught at the news, and his grief was aggravated by the popular press, which mistakenly tied the murders to the presumed drug-abusing lifestyle of Tate, Polanski, and their friends.
		Polanski's next film, The Tenant (1976), was a return to contemporary horror, this time the story of a timid man (played by Polanski himself) driven mad after occupying the apartment of a woman who attempted suicide.
		Polanski's next project, co-scripted with Brach and John Brownjohn and produced by noted French director Claude Berri (Jean de Florette and Manon of the Spring [both 1986]), was an English-language adaptation of Thomas Hardy's novel Tess of the d'Urbervilles.
	www.angelfire.com /movies/southernmace/5dirs.html (6289 words)

	Roman Polanski
		Born in Paris in 1933, Roman Polanski was raised and educated in Poland where he attended Art School in Cracow and the famed State Film College in Lodz.
		Polanski marked his American directorial debut with the horror classic "Rosemary's Baby" (1968), for which he received an Oscar nomination for Best Screenplay Adaptation.
		Polanski's next film, the 1988 thriller "Frantic," with Harrison Ford, marked the first starring role of Emmanuelle Seigner, who starred with Peter Coyote and Hugh Grant in his 1992 film "Bitter Moon." Seigner married Polanski in 1989.
	www.sonypictures.com /classics/pformality/cast/polanski.html (520 words)

	Barnes & Noble.com - Biography - Roman Polanski
		The son of a Polish Jew and a Russian immigrant, Polanski was born in Paris on August 18, 1933.
		Polanski made his feature film debut in 1962 with Noz w Wodzie/Knife in the Water; as with most of his subsequent features, he also worked on the screenplay, in this case collaborating with Jerzy Skolimowski and Jakub Goldberg.
		Polanski moved to England to make his next two films, the first of which, Repulsion, became a cornerstone of contemporary psychological thrillers and, despite poor box-office returns, is said to be the director's favorite film.
	video.barnesandnoble.com /search/Biography.asp?ctr=638320 (1327 words)

	Landscapes of the Mind: The Cinema of Roman Polanski (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Polanski, as he retells these traumatic years, stresses not only the dislocation and oppression forced upon innocent people, but also the ways in which victims could themselves become victimisers - a treacherous dynamic evident in many of his films.
		Polanski fed off mass media fantasy and, increasingly, it fed off him; in a twist familiar from many of his movies, it is hard to decide who is the vampire and who is the vampire killer.
		Polanski declared of Cul-de-Sac: "It is real cinema, done for cinema." (19) He returns here to the surreal, imagistic style of Two Men and a Wardrobe: a car stuck in the rising tide, lone figures dwarfed by a forbidding landscape, abstracted images of the characters' physical vulnerability and pain.
	www.sensesofcinema.com /contents/festivals/01/15/biff_polanski.html (4445 words)

	ZA@Play (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Polanski, who fled the US in 1977 and is still on the wanted list, has been nominated for the best director award at next month's Oscars.
		Geimer was 13 when Polanski, then 44, told her mother he wanted to take pictures of her for a French magazine at a photo session in Los Angeles.
		Polanski was arrested and charged with a number of sex offences.
	www.chico.mweb.co.za /art/2003/2003mar/030307-roman.html (656 words)

	AMCTV.com BIOGRAPHY - Roman Polanski (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Roman Polanski is also a survivor, but he earned the title before he even made it to Hollywood.
		Polanski was born in Paris to a Polish Jew and a Russian immigrant on August 18th, 1933, but only spent his first three years in France.
		Before Roman's mother and father were sent to the concentration camp, Roman's father arranged for his son's escape from the ghetto with the help of some kind Catholic families.
	www.amctv.com /person/detail/0,,5314-1-EST,00.html (819 words)

	New York Times Article: CP 101 (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Polanski's wife, the actress Sharon Tate, and their unborn child in 1969, he went on to make his bloody adaptation of "Macbeth." But it has taken him almost six decades to come to terms with another period of suffering: the time he spent in the Jewish ghetto in Krakow, which he escaped at age 6.
		Polanski and Ronald Harwood, who wrote the script, put together a documentary from Nazi films of the ghetto and screened it for the extras and bit players to prepare them for their roles, Mr.
		Polanski's return to his native country to film a Polish tale after nearly 40 years' absence is seen by many as a vindication of Poland's place in the world, and has been the talk of film circles and the subject of features in Polish magazines.
	cp.siu.edu /general_information/faculty/susan/courses/articles_for_classes/green.html (1093 words)

	The Smoking Gun: Archive
		MARCH 11--It's been 26 years since Roman Polanski's arrest for sexually abusing a 13-year-old girl, but the director's Oscar nomination and the success of his film "The Pianist" has again focused attention on the March 1977 crime that prompted his French exile.
		Polanski, 69, will not discuss the case and his victim, Samantha Geimer, now 39, has recently said that the sex assault should not color his chances with Academy Award voters.
		The teenager's troubling--and contemporaneous--account of her abuse at Polanski's hands begins with her posing twice for topless photos that the director said were for French Vogue.
	www.thesmokinggun.com /archive/polanskicover1.html (310 words)

	Another Reason to Dislike the French...and Hollywood.
		Two weeks later, a grand jury indicted Polanski on charges of giving a drug to a minor, committing a lewd act upon a person less than 14, rape of a minor, rape by use of a drug, oral copulation and sodomy, all felonies.
		Polanski was imprisoned at Auschwitz and his mother died there.
		In 1969, Polanski’s pregnant wife, actress Sharon Tate, was brutally murdered by the Charles Manson cult.
	cowdery.home.netcom.com /polanski.htm (839 words)

	Roman Polanski (Site not responding. Last check: )
		In 1977, Roman Polanski, took thirteen-year-old Samantha Geimer over to Jack Nicholson's house in Bel Air while the actor was away.
		Polanski, director of the films Chinatown and Rosemary's Baby, had arranged to snap photos of the girl in her swimsuit, for the French edition of Vogue.
		Roman Polanski gives a thirteen-year old girl Quaaludes and has sex with her during a photo shoot at Jack Nicholson's home.
	www.rotten.com /library/bio/artists/roman-polanski (288 words)

	Close up - Feminism in Macbeth (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Her identification of three types of sensory imagery which Polanski employs in delegating power to men in his interpretation is useful as a way of critiquing the film, but she uses it in an extremely selective manner.
		Polanski’s clumsy use of the camera here simply creates confusion in the mind of the audience, because it sets up the proposition that Lady Macbeth, once such a manipulator, is manipulating the doctor and nurse.
		Polanski judged Orson Welles’s MACBETH a ‘failure’ (18), and in a discussion concerning the characterisation of Lady Macbeth he makes another criticism, not specifically of Welles, but obviously including him: ‘They [directors] always present Lady Macbeth as a nagging bitch.
	www.shu.ac.uk /services/lc/closeup/polan.htm (3896 words)

	Roman Polanski
		It was on this date, September 18, 1933, that director Roman Polanski was born in Paris to Polish parents, neither of whom practiced their religion seriously.
		Polanski's mother, a Roman Catholic, died in the concentration camp, but Roman — at that time known as Roman Liebling and his Jewish father escaped.
		In the film, the title character learns that her husband and all her friends are part of a Satanist coven; she is impregnated by the devil and even shares a meal resembling a Christian communion.
	www.ronaldbrucemeyer.com /rants/0918almanac.htm (548 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Entertainment \| Film \| Polanski 'touched' by Oscar win
		Film-maker Roman Polanski has said he was "deeply touched" to be chosen to win the best director Oscar for his Holocaust movie The Pianist.
		Polanski, a survivor of the World War II Krakow ghetto in Poland, added that his experiences had helped him "understand that art can transcend pain".
		Polanski fled the US for France in 1978 to escape sentencing for having sex with a 13-year-old girl.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/entertainment/film/2885479.stm (324 words)

	Amazon.com: ROMAN BY POLANSKI: Books (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Polanski's appalling childhood and the Manson murders of 1969 (Polanski's pregnant wife and unborn child were murdered by disciples of the would-be messiah) undoubtedly contributed to the self-destruction that is too frequently an underlying theme in his life.
		"Roman by Polanski" is a satisfying and compelling read for those of us who, though incensed by some of the director's sophomoric actions, still find a commonality with the chaotic and passionate aspects of his personality.
		Polanski has led one of the most interesting lives of anyone in the film industry, and it was great to read about his many misadventures, misfortunes, and mistakes, as viewed from the director's perspective.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0345305124?v=glance (1091 words)

	Salon Directory
		Roman Polanski's astonishing film exquisitely captures both the anger and the cruel beauty of Dickens' great novel.
		Roman Polanski's wrenching World War II magnum opus confronts the horrors of the Warsaw ghetto and the moral complexities of war -- and asserts the power of art, just maybe, to triumph over nihilism.
		Roman Polanski's unnerving classic deserves to be seen in all its gloomy glory.
	dir.salon.com /topics/roman_polanski/index.html (311 words)

	USATODAY.com - Filmmaker Roman Polanski wins libel suit against 'Vanity Fair' (Site not responding. Last check: )
		LONDON (AP) — Filmmaker Roman Polanski on Friday won his libel suit against Vanity Fair magazine over an article that accused him of propositioning a woman while on the way to the funeral of his murdered wife, Sharon Tate.
		Polanski, director of Rosemary's Baby,Chinatown and The Pianist, sued Vanity Fair's publisher over a 2002 article that accused him of propositioning a woman while on the way to the funeral of Tate, who was killed by followers of Charles Manson in 1969.
		Polanski's lawyer, John Kelsey-Fry, said Polanski had been "monstrously libeled for the sake of a lurid anecdote." The director's lawyers deny that the incident ever occurred.
	www.usatoday.com /life/people/2005-07-22-polanski-libel-win_x.htm?csp=36 (689 words)

	Polanski premieres film on Holocaust - theage.com.au
		Roman Polanski with his partner Emmanuelle Seigner at a Cannes screening of The Pianist.
		The film director Roman Polanski, still living under the shadow of sex charges in America, brought a film to the Cannes festival for the first time in 30 years on Friday.
		Polanski said: "There were good Poles and bad Poles, the same goes with the Jews, the same with the Germans.
	www.theage.com.au /articles/2002/05/25/1022243279033.html (408 words)

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