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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.

Chicago Sun-Times

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

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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.

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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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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…

Radio France Internationale

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.

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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…

Asharq Al-Awsat

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

The Independent UK

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…

Los Angeles Times

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.

Evening Standard

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

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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.

Los Angeles Times

Roman Polanski sex abuse case documents should be unsealed, Los Angeles DA says

LOS ANGELES — Los Angeles County Dist. Atty. George Gascón asked a state appeals court Tuesday to unseal transcripts related to the criminal case against Roman Polanski, which could end the decades-long legal saga over the film director's sexual abuse of a teenager in 1977.

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MeToo film movement shifts from rhetoric to action

As the MeToo movement evolves, the film industry is seeking practical ways to ensure its opposition to harassment and abuse is translated into tangible improvements.

Tribune News Service

Movie review: 'Watcher' a well-crafted voyeuristic thriller

In Chloe Okuno’s stylish debut “Watcher,” the title refers not just to one person, but two, when the watched becomes the watcher, the stalker and stalked swapping places throughout the course of this chilly psychological thriller. Working in the vein of ‘70s-style horror, Okuno’s “Watcher” is in dialogue with films…

Salon

"Stranger Things" and real Satanic panic

After the death of a teen in the 1970s, the role-playing game beloved by the Hawkins kids was blamed

The Guardian - UK

‘It became like a real memory’: Louis Garrel on making a film aged five in which he found a man in bed with his mother

His parents were Nouvelle Vague royalty and he went on to star in one of the sexiest movies ever made. Now the actor and director is refining his “banter à la française” in a scramble to get his new film finished for Cannes

Los Angeles Times

Academy member on trial over child molestation charges draws scrutiny

LOS ANGELES — Jeffrey Cooper, a renowned architect and acoustic engineer, carved out a prestigious place in the Hollywood firmament. Over the years he designed movie theaters and sound studios, including an Academy of Television Arts and Sciences theater and more than two dozen of the mixing studios that produced…

Chicago Tribune

What does a movie producer do? ‘The Offer,’ a series about the making of ‘The Godfather,’ provides an answer

A few years ago, ahead of the 2019 Oscars, I wrote a column that started with a simple question: What does a movie producer do? Despite the ubiquity of the term, it’s a job title that fails to capture the day-to-day work itself. Director? Sure, most of us have a…

Daily Record

Scots actor Gianni Capaldi brands former co-star Mickey Rourke 'total scum'

Capaldi, of Hamilton, was outraged by Hollywood star Rourke's praise of disgraced film director Roman Polanski.

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