Odd, life's little coincidences. And I just watched
Rosemary's Baby on HBO about a week ago too - not that I want to tie this all back to ME!
***The Polanski Arrest from People.com: Director Roman Polanski, who fled the United States in 1978 after pleading guilty to having sex with a 13-year-old girl in California, has been arrested in Switzerland.
In a statement, the Zurich Film Festival, where Polanski, 76, was due to receive a lifetime achievement award, said the Oscar-winning director was held on his arrival in Switzerland Saturday.
A U.S. warrant for his arrest was issued when Polanski left the country more than 30 years ago before his sentencing. Polanski, a French citizen, has never returned to the U.S. since then and has sought to have the case against him dismissed.
The Swiss Federal Department of Justice and Police, which confirmed Polanski's arrest on an outstanding American warrant, added that a decision to extradite him to the U.S. is subject to judicial procedure.
"Why now?," a friend of Polanski told PEOPLE on Sunday. "We don't understand. Roman has been to Switzerland before so we don't understand why he's been arrested this time."
***Polanski's Victim cnpanyu.com: Samantha Geimer wants charges against Roman Polanski dropped. Samantha Geimer wants statutory rape charges against Roman Polanski first filed in 1977 and still be pursued decades later ended.
Polanski fled the U.S. to avoid the charges. Now Samantha Geimer says continual discussion of the details of her case decades later by prosecutors “causes harm to me, my husband and children”.
Roman Polanksi had sought dismissal of her charges on January 21, but the court said he needs to appear in person. Geimer says that’s a “a cruel joke”. Polanski fled the U.S. in 1978 and hasn’t been in the country since. In 2002 he won the Oscar for The Pianist.
Greimer, now 45, reportedly told the court in a written statement: “If Polanski cannot stand before the court to make this request, I, as the victim, can and I, as the victim do. I have urged that this matter come to a formal legal end. I have urged that the district attorney and the court dismiss these charges.”
***Sharon Tate's Killer from ShortNews.com: Former Manson follower, Susan Atkins, died Thursday after battling brain cancer for over a year. On September 2nd she had appeared in front of the Parole board and was denied for the 13th time. Atkins turned her life to God when she got to prison.
She had always admitted to her crime in where she wrote the word Pig in blood after stabbing actress Sharon Tate 16 times. Tate, 8 months pregnant, had begged Atkins to spare her baby to which Atkins said "I told her I didn't have any mercy on her."