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Looking back at a cringeworthy Oscars for the ages 20 years later

LOS ANGELES — Twenty years ago, Rob Marshall’s “Chicago” won six Academy Awards, including best picture, beating out Martin Scorsese’s “Gangs of New York,” Stephen Daldry’s “The Hours,” Peter Jackson’s “The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers” and Roman Polanski’s “The Pianist.” The triumph of “Chicago” — one of…

Los Angeles Times

Linda Kasabian, Charles Manson follower who helped send him to prison, dies at 73

LOS ANGELES — In 1969, 20-year-old Linda Kasabian came to California to find God. Instead, she found Charles Manson.

Los Angeles Times

Linda Kasabian: Manson family member dies at 73

Gang’s getaway driver passed away in hospital in January and has since been cremated

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Roman Polanski Can't Block IMetPolanski.com Site

From the WIPO Arbitration & Mediation Center Administrative Panel Decision in Polanski v. Uziel (Arbitrators Brian J. Winterfeldt, Warwick A. Rothnie & Marie-Emmanuelle Haas), decided two weeks ago but just posted on Westlaw: In 1977, the Complainant [film director] was arrested in the United States and charged with unlawful sex…

Reason

You Need to Watch the Most Shockingly Brutal Noir on HBO Max ASAP

Important, controversial, and incredibly influential, this contentious classic remains as chilling as it was in the 1970s.

Inverse

Sharon Tate's harrowing fight to save unborn baby as Charles Mason Family took her life

Actress Sharon Tate was eight and a half months pregnant when she was murdered by crazed members of Charles Manson's cult

Daily Mirror

Why did Charles Manson order killings? NU psychologist, other experts offer a new take

Chicago psychologist Alan Friedman is among experts who reviewed a 1997 prison exam and are challenging the belief that Manson was schizophrenic. Manson was convicted of orchestrating the 1969 killings of actress Sharon Tate and six others in Los Angeles.

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People under investigation for sex crimes barred from French 'Oscars' ceremony

Organisers of the César Awards, France's version of the Oscars, have said that anyone being investigated for allegations of sexual misconduct will be barred from attending the ceremony next month, though they can still be nominated.

Radio France Internationale

César film awards to ban nominees being investigated for sexual violence

Decision means that ‘Les Amandiers’ star Sofiane Bennacer will be excluded from the ceremony

The Independent UK

'French Oscars' bars those investigated for sex crimes

Paris (AFP) - The Cesar Awards, France's version of the Oscars, said Monday that anyone being investigated for allegations of sexual misconduct would be barred from its ceremony next month.

AFP

Warren Beatty accused of coercing sex from underage girl nearly 50 years ago in new lawsuit

Actor and Oscar-winning director Warren Beatty allegedly used his “status” and “power” to coerce an underage girl into sexual encounters nearly five decades ago, a new lawsuit claims.

Tribune News Service

Polanski ordered to stand trial in France for defaming accuser

Filmmaker Roman Polanski has been ordered to stand trial in France for allegedly defaming a British actress who accused him of sexual abuse. The 89-year-old Franco-Polish director has faced a series of sexual assault claims, though he has never been tried in France.

Radio France Internationale

Cate Blanchett’s Tár receives standing ovation – here are Venice Film Festival’s other big moments

As director Todd Field tackles cancel-culture, we look at the other big moments in Venice’s recent history

Evening Standard

Timeline of Roman Polanski's 45-year-old teen sex abuse case

The release of a transcript of previously sealed testimony in Roman Polanski's long-running sex abuse case in Los Angeles is the latest development in a legal saga that has spanned 45 years

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Radio France Internationale

US judge reneged on promise in Roman Polanski sex case, transcript reveals

A Los Angeles judge privately told lawyers he would renege on a promise and imprison Roman Polanski for having sex with a teenage girl in 1977, a former prosecutor has testified. This in part explains why the renowned Franco-Polish director fled the Unites States, setting the stage for one of…

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A U.S. judge said he would renege on a promise not to jail Polanski in his sex case

The detail emerged decades after Roman Polanski pleaded guilty to unlawful sex with a minor and fled the U.S. on the eve of his sentencing because he didn't think he was getting a fair deal.

Asharq Al-Awsat

Ex-prosecutor: US Judge Planned to Renege on Polanski Deal

A Los Angeles judge privately told lawyers he would renege on a plea deal and imprison Roman Polanski for having sex with a teenage girl in 1977, a former prosecutor testified, setting the stage for the renowned director to flee the US as a fugitive. A previously sealed transcript obtained…

The Independent UK

Ex-prosecutor: US judge planned to renege on Polanski deal

A retired Los Angeles prosecutor has said a judge privately told lawyers he would renege on a plea deal and imprison Roman Polanski for having sex with a teenage girl in 1977

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US court rules Polanski case transcripts must be unsealed

Los Angeles (AFP) - Testimony from a key prosecutor in the statutory rape case against Roman Polanski must be unsealed, more than 40 years after the fugitive director was convicted, a California court has ruled.

Los Angeles Times

Roman Polanski criminal case transcripts must be unsealed, court rules

LOS ANGELES — An appeals court ruled Wednesday that transcripts related to Roman Polanski's criminal case must be made public, a decision that could bring an end to a legal saga the acclaimed film director set in motion when he fled the U.S. after pleading guilty to sexually abusing a…

Evening Standard

US Court of Appeal agrees to unseal documents in Roman Polanski rape case

A US court of appeal has ordered that a key transcript sought by Roman Polanski can be unsealed, so that the filmmaker's 45-year-old rape case might be re-examined.

The Independent UK

Court documents in Polanski criminal case ordered released

A California appeals court has ordered the unsealing of some documents in the criminal case against renowned director Roman Polanski, who's been a fugitive since pleading guilty to having sex with a 13-year-old girl decades ago

The Independent UK

US court of appeal agrees to unseal documents in Roman Polanski rape case

It comes less than 48 hours after the Los Angeles District Attorney’s office said they would no longer object to the document’s release.

The Guardian - US

Roman Polanski rape case testimony can be unsealed, LA prosecutor says

District attorney George Gascón says his office has asked to unseal transcripts in effort to re-examine case

The Independent UK

Documents in Roman Polanski rape case to be unsealed after 45 years

The filmmaker pleaded guilty to unlawful sexual intercourse with a 13-year-old girl in 1977 then fled the US.

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