According to an article at Yahoo! Movies, the Swiss Justice Ministry has denied bail to Oscar-winning director Roman Polanski, which brings him closer to being extradited to the United States after being on the lam from Uncle Sam for three decades. According to the Swiss, they felt that Polanski would be a "flight risk" if he was allowed out on bail (See? People can learn from other people's mistakes).
I like most of Roman Polanski's films. "Rosemary's Baby", "Knife In the Water", "Death and the Maiden", "Chinatown", "Tess" and perhaps his finest work to date, "The Pianist", all show that the 76-year old director is one of the motion picture industry's best directors. The Oscar he won in 2003 for "The Pianist" was not only well-deserved, it was well overdue.
His facing the judicial music is also something that is well overdue. It is possible to separate the art from the man (someone should point that out to the idiots who signed this joke). I love his films, but I think the bastard needs to serve his time in jail. Rape is rape, end of story. You do the crime, do the time. I don't care how many great films you've directed, you drugged and forced yourself on a minor. In my book, that would guarantee you a long stay at Shawshank Prison.
In the event that Polanski does come back to the United States and winds up doing jail time, he may end up spending his remaining days behind bars. A sad footnote to a rather accomplished artistic career. A footnote made even more pathetic given the fact that he was only looking at a 1 1/2-month sentence for the same crime back in 1978.
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