Subject: Roman Polanski

• Memories, Dreams, Reflections

  February 28, 2002

• Un Certain Disregard

  June 6, 2002

• When Moore Is Not Enough

  April 3, 2003

• Roman Polanski's Catch-22

  Next Wednesday fugitive film director Roman Polanski will get a hearing in Superior Court on his lawyers' request to have longstanding charges stemming from his having sex with a minor dismissed. How a judge will rule on the motion, given that the alleged crime occurred 32 years ago, is anyone's guess. According to the Associated Press' Linda Deutsch, Polanksi has no desire to ever return to the U.S. but merely wants to "leave a legacy of justice." Polanski image by Film Servis Festival Karlovy

  January 15, 2009

• Morning Sixpack: A News Roundup

  Roman Polanski's Trial by Film Just days before a crucial Los Angeles court hearing, the Associated Press' Linda Deutsch explains how a 2008 HBO documentary stirred the film auteur to resolve  the legal charges that had kept him in European self-exile for three decades.One Picture Is Worth a Thousand Lawsuits In this morning's L.A. Times, Harriet Ryan writes about photographer Karl Larsen's anger -- and lawsuit -- over ABC's 20/20 miscrediting his 2007 photo of a crying Paris Hilton sitting

  January 20, 2009

• A Court Win for Polanski

  Today a three-judge appellate panel granted self-exiled film director Roman Polanski an emergency stay in proceedings that had been scheduled for Wednesday afternoon. His lawyers had filed the appeal after an L.A. judge had rejected their motion to bar the L.A. County Superior Court system as a venue for Polanski's attempts to have three-decade old charges against him dismissed. The appellate judges' decision suggests that Polanski's charges of gross judicial prejudice against him, raised last y

  January 20, 2009

• Has the Daily News Become the Recycler?

  Among L.A. Observed's daily reports of newspaper triage comes word that the Los Angeles Daily News is one of several papers belonging to the Los Angeles Newspaper Group whose newsrooms have been ordered to play without pay for an entire week. Just how the news is going to appear on its pages (paper and Web) might be gleaned by today's inclusion of a "breaking" online story about Roman Polanski's legal battles. If the piece's headline,  "Polanski's bid to dismiss rape case tied to film," sou

  January 28, 2009

• Morning Sixpack: A News Roundup

  Polanski Loses Bid to Nix L.A. Judges The AP's Linda Deutsch reports that a three-member appellate panel has rejected self-exiled film auteur Roman Polanski's motion to bar any Los Angeles County judge from participating in his case. Polanski, who claims he has no plans to ever return to the U.S., is seeking to clear up three-decades-old charges involving improper sexual conduct with a minor.Murder-Suicide Dad Called "Loving" Ervin Lupoe, the Wilmington man who killed his wife and five children

  February 3, 2009

• Morning Sixpack: A News Roundup

  Prison Mom & Baby Escape, Are Captured State prisoner Daphne Delorah Miner is back behind bars after escaping from a prison parenting class in Pomona. Miner was apprehended in Downtown L.A. and her newborn son taken from her. L.A. Daily NewsGone in 600 Seconds A team of five armed thieves drove three tractor rigs into Logistic Express in Harbor Gateway and made off with three containers packed with electronics from the business' gated lot. A security guard was tied up during the 10-minute, $

  February 17, 2009

• Catherine Deneuve: Belle De 50 Ans

  The actress on her new film, A Christmas Tale, and her long, glorious non-career

  November 20, 2008

• Wanted and Desired: Was Roman Polanski a Pedophile?

  July 10, 2008

• Fluid Dynamics: Stephan Koplowitz and TaskForce

  Liquid landscapes appear throughout the city over eight days

  June 26, 2008

• Heat

  August 21, 2003

• Guerrillas of Orange

  Paul Verhoeven opens the Black Book on World War II

  April 5, 2007

• How Neatly Spreads His Claws

  January 31, 2002

• Vodka, Vampires & Vikings

  October 19, 2006

• The Word and the Image: The Films of Peter Whitehead

  April 20, 2006

• New Film Reviews

  Including this week's picks, William Eggleston in the Real World and Fateless

  January 26, 2006

• Tough Guys, Effete Snobs and Mad Women

  December 1, 2005

• Notable Scene Stealers

  December 23, 2004

• The Face in the Toilet Bowl

  October 16, 2003

• United They Sit

  August 21, 2003

• Aargh!

  July 17, 2003

• The Dualists

  April 24, 2003

• Penis Dentatus

  March 27, 2003

• The Year in Film

  January 2, 2003

• Hitler Studies

  December 26, 2002

• Mapping Andy

  May 30, 2002

• Crossover

  March 14, 2002

• Japan’s New New Wave

  August 2, 2001

• Homage to Catatonia

  July 12, 2001

• Belle de Jour

  October 12, 2000

• Cinema Tech

  May 18, 2000

• Unnecessary Evil

  March 16, 2000

• Who It Is

  January 6, 2000

• The Hidden

  August 19, 1999

• Going to Hell for Fun and Profit

  March 4, 1999

• Today in Photographs: April 20, 1977

  Roman Polanski (right) on his way to court in Santa Monica for a preliminary hearing on rape charges filed against him.Photo: LA Herald-Examiner/LAPL CollectionClick image to enlarge

  April 20, 2009

• Morning Sixpack: A News Roundup

  No-Show Polanski Loses Court Bid  Judge Peter Espinoza refused to dismiss decades-old sexual misconduct charges against film auteur Roman Polanski. Espinoza said the refusal of the fugitive Polanski to attend a hearing in L.A. Superior Court made dismissal impossible. L.A. Times Jesusita Firefighters Face Surgery Two of the three Ventura County firemen who were brought to Sherman Oaks' Grossman Burn Center from the Santa Barbara wildfire will undergo surgery today. L.A. Daily NewsTwo R

  May 8, 2009

• Morning Sixpack: A News Roundup

  UCLA Lab Fire Fine The University of California, Los Angeles, was fined more than $31,000 by Cal/OSHA for safety violations in a 2008 fire that led to the death of a research assistant. L.A. TimesOakridge Residents Return After 170 days, residents of the mobile homes not destroyed by last year's Sayre Fire came back to them Monday. L.A. Daily NewsBoater Missing Off Catalina The Coast Guard is searching the waters off Santa Catalina Island for Lawrence Nash of Redondo Beach. Nash's 12-foot skiff

  May 5, 2009

• Bishop Lamont-The Next Great West Coast Hope?

  I...listened to all that Death Row stuff....and Lords Of The Underground, Busta Rhymes, Redman and Keith Murray, where your takes had to be so clean and ill to get off the phonetics that you were dropping. Your lines had to be crisp. Other cats don’t come from that school. It took me studying Redman, Method Man, Keith Murray and Wu-Tang. Listening to Kurupt, Daz, Jay-Z, Biggie and Snoop Dogg over and over again.-Bishop Lamont @ XXL West Coast rappers do not listen to The Lords of the Under

  December 3, 2007

• AAN Honors: LA Weekly Wins Four AltWeekly Press Awards

  LA Weekly led the awards among major circulation weekly newspapers again this year, grabbing four first-place honors from the Association of Alternative Newsweeklies at its 14th annual AltWeekly Awards in Tucson.The four winners were Art Director Darrick Rainey for his haunting design of a cover story about the death of a beautiful young runaway on the gritty streets of Hollywood, editor Laurie Ochoa and the LA Weekly staff for the LA People 2008 issue, food columnist Jonathan Gold for his body

  June 26, 2009

• L.A. Weekly News Editor Responds to L.A. Times Hit Piece

  July 2, 2009

• Roman Polanski v. L.A. Superior Court: Act 3

  For someone who's declared his intention to never return to the United States, Roman Polanski is certainly keen on clearing his name in Los Angeles court. The 75-year-old film auteur (Repulsion, Chinatown, The Pianist) fled the country for voluntary European exile in 1978 after an L.A. judge indicated he was about to throw out a plea deal involving charges Polanski had sexual relations with a minor. Since then, a documentary film aired last year on HBO suggested judicial impropriety on the court

  July 8, 2009

• Polanski Case: Prosecutor's Dishonesty Challenged

  It's come to the point in Los Angeles where you can't even trust people to tell lies anymore. That's one of the bizarre situations spawned by the recent Swiss arrest of film director Roman Polanski. Last year an HBO-aired documentary, Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired, alleged that Polanski bolted the United States when it became clear a judge was going to renege on a plea deal worked out between Polanski's lawyer and the District Attorney's office related to charges that Polanski had raped a 1

  October 1, 2009

• Swiss Miss: Roman Polanski Loses Bail Bid

  The first inning of what could prove to be long losing game for director Roman Polanski ended Tuesday with Swiss authorities rejecting his application for bail. The Associated Press quoted Swiss justice ministry spokesman Folco Galli saying, "We continue to be of the opinion that there is a high risk of flight." Polanski's French lawyers had tried to sell the ministry on the idea of allowing Polanski to leave custody and remain at his chalet in Gstaad. The authorities weren't buying, however, an

  October 6, 2009

• An Education: Higher Learning

  October 8, 2009

• All Time High Support For Legal Pot In U.S.

  This must be green week. On Monday President Obama called off Bush-fearing federal agents who had their guns trained on medical marijuana dispensaries in California and 13 other states where medicinal pot is legal. A county superior court judge ruled the city's moratorium on new dispensaries is illegal. And now a Gallup poll has found more Americans since the 1970s -- when it first started asking respondents for their opinions on the matter -- support the all-out legalization of marijuana.The or

  October 20, 2009

• Romero, Fellow Politicians Support Polanski Extradition

  Los Angeles state Sen. Gloria Romero and several Sacramento colleagues signed a letter supporting county District Attorney Steve Cooley's efforts to extradite Roman Polanski, who admitted to having unlawful sexual intercourse with a 13-year-old before fleeing to France in 1978.State Sen. Gloria Romero, D-Los Angeles, wants Roman Polanski back in L.A.​ Polanski was nabbed nearly a month ago en route to a film festival in Switzerland, and Cooley wants him back in town to face the music. The

  October 28, 2009

• County Names Buzz Aldrin Consul General To The Moon; Chong Headed To Mars

  As the county deals with an outbreak of swine flu, a lack of emergency rooms and a battered property tax base, the Board of Supervisors has been busy naming astronaut Buzz Aldrin Los Angeles' "consul general to the Moon."​Good work. If ever Roman Polanski escapes to the lunar republic we have someone to turn to in order to begin the extradition process. Aldrin took the opportunity to call on NASA to create a colony on the moon by 2035. We expect it will be an unincorporated part of the county.

  November 12, 2009