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In a development that should come as no surprise to anyone (even you, Wes Anderson), fresh allegations of sexual misconduct with a minor have surfaced against Roman Polanski, who famously plead guilty in 1978 to drugging and sodomizing a 13-year-old girl (not necessarily in that order). Because of course they have. “I’m sure if someone drugged and sodomized a 13-year-old girl in Jack Nicholson’s hot tub, plead guilty, and fled the United States to avoid punishment, that it was an isolated incident,” said no one. From AFP:

Fugitive film-maker Roman Polanski was hit by fresh allegations of sexual misconduct here Friday by a woman who claims the director “forced himself” upon her just after her 16th birthday in 1982.

Polanski, who is fighting extradition to the United States to face sentencing in his 1978 child sex case, was accused by British actress Charlotte Lewis of sexually abusing her at his apartment in Paris nearly 30 years ago.

In a press conference at the Beverly Hills offices of prominent attorney Gloria Allred, Lewis, 42, said she was speaking out to refute suggestions from Polanski’s legal team that his earlier case was an isolated incident.

Yup. That sounds about right. What a creep. “But he makes wonderful movies.” Yes, he does. Surprise, it turns out those two things are not mutually exclusive. Your ability to make great movies does not negate your ability to rape children. Anyway, you are welcome to discuss the importance of these developments and their possible effect on Roman Polanski’s on-going extradition case, OR, you can post photos of different types of animals that you might not expect to be friends with each other being friends with each other. The choice is yours, much like how Roman Polanski once had the choice whether to drug and sodomize a 13-year-old girl or whether to NOT do that. We know what he chose to do (rape rape) but your future is still a mystery. Neat!

Comments (122)
  1. I’m really shocked.

    Truly.


  2. I have a feeling I will be creating a youtube collage in my mind of the images in this thread set to the Smash Mouth cover of Why Can’t We Be Friends

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  4. You missed a trick here Gabe. This coulda gone on the front cover of Duh Aficianado, but now my rival magazine, “No Duh Weekly”, will publish it, and win over the coveted “sarcasm” demographic.

    Here is a dog and a pig!

  5. I can see both sides of this controversy: on the one hand, it is terrible that children have been abused by a narcissistic filmmaker douche who has been enabled by the people who admire his movies but who don’t seem to have the moral clarity to separate the rapist from the art (Chinatown is great, for example, but that obviously doesn’t excuse the director doing this type of shit, no duh), but on the other hand, this whole Polanski hullabaloo has provided Videogum with an enjoyable “hobby horse” that we will miss as soon as the 70s sleaze-geezer kicks the bucket and/or kills himself and then we won’t be able to make fun of it any more. Just like LOST ending soon. Seize the day, Videogum troll monster beasts. Live life to its fullest before it is all over in an instant. You don’t know what you got till it’s gone, brohams.

  6. Am I doing this right?

  7. “She’s pretty.” -Roman Polanski, 1982

  8. Shame on yo….

    Awww….

  9. Am I RIGHT OR am I right?!

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  11. Ok, so this time Roman Polanski commited rape rape. But it’s not like it was “Rape rape-Rape rape”. Back me up here Whoopi!

    [URL=http://img17.imageshack.us/i/raperape.png/][IMG]http://img17.imageshack.us/img17/5319/raperape.png[/IMG][/URL]

  12. Ughhhh. You, sir, are draining my positivity.

  13. Ok, so Roman Polanski may have committed Rape-Rape this time. But it’s not like it was “Rape-Rape Rape-Rape.” Back me up here, Whoopi!

  14. This is considered being friends, right?

  15. LISTEN up mothas WE BE CHATTIN all up IN http://WWW.VIDEOGUM.COM/CHAT

    GET all UP IN IT!

  16. You lost me at Gloria Allred (uuggh) so picture it is:

  17. Even Sarah Palin wouldn’t shoot these two from a helicopter.

  18. “Your ability to make great movies does not negate your ability to rape children.” – Nick Madson.

  19. The ultimate:

  20. Or we can all just visit Interspecies Love and smile happily.

  21. “I grew up on a farm. I have seen animals having sex in every position imaginable. Goat on chicken. Chicken on goat. Couple of chickens doing a goat. Couple of pigs watching…”

  22. The Dark Cat:

  23. And crazy people jumping on high-profile controversies for attention is totally not a thing either.

  24. I loved that chick in “The Golden Child”!

  25. amidoingthisrite??

  26. oh man.. I always miss the good threads

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