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The Los Angeles community is abuzz right now because Hollywood has taken some flack for it’s backing of Roman Polanski.
He has retained a top lawyer but the power elite of Los Angeles (well, more specifically the Los Angeles film community) have largely rushed to his aide in this infamous case, or should I say, sordid saga. It seems many people have a “no injury, no foul” sort of attitude about the whole thing. Polanski himself has had his share of misfortune. He grew up in a German concentration camp and his wife and unborn child both suffered fatal injury at the hands of the manson family in that notorious case from the 60’s. Then in the 70’s he was forced to flee the United States and head to Europe, where he was able to continue his film career. The Europeans are less judgemental about this sort of thing, apparently. If you need a Los Angeles Injury lawyer then may I suggest Mansell, one of the finest injury lawyers in all of the city of angels. As it now stands, some analysts and writers are commenting lately that the film industry’s particularly strong support of the director is in fact clear evidence of just how out of touch they are with public opinion around the globe. Some publications are loudly motion picture people who have so visibly and publicly come to his aid, such as Harvey Weinstein of Mirimax Pictures, who called his conduct as a “so-called crime.”
Some of the other supporters in the industry for the beleagured filmmaker include Woody Allen (himself accused of improper conduct with a child), filmmaker Jonathan Demme, Sam Mendes, high profile producer Mike Nichols (producer of such films as the 1994 Thriller Wolf) and award winner Martin Scorsese, the director of films such as ‘Taxi Driver’, ‘Raging Bull’, ‘Boxcar Bertha’, ‘The Color of Money’, ‘Cape Fear’, ‘Goodfellas’ and also ‘Casino’. In any case, for Polanski’s sake I am kind of hope he remains in European jail for now. After all, American prisoners are noted for their distaste of child abusers. They generally respond in kind tenfold to such individuals.