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发帖数: 24733 | 1 Just a week after The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences gave Bill
Cosby and Roman Polanski the boot per its news standards of conduct, the 84-
year-old director is threatening to take legal action to reverse the
decision.
In a letter to the Academy President John Bailey, Polanski’s attorney,
Harland Braun, explained that the decision was made in violation of the
organization’s standards of conduct as well as California state law. He
claims that Mr. Polanski should have been given a fair hearing in which he
could explain his side of the story before being expelled.
“I am writing this letter to avoid unnecessary litigation,” Braun wrote in
the letter, obtained by Fox News. “Mr. Polanski has a right to go to court
and require your organization to follow its own procedures, as well as
California law. The only proper solution would be for your organization to
rescind its illegal expulsion of Mr. Polanski and follow its own Standards
of Conduct by giving Mr. Polanski reasonable notice of the charges against
him and a fair hearing to present his position with respect to any proposed
expulsion.”
Polanski, who won the Academy Award for Best Director in 2003 for “The
Pianist,” has been in a sort of exile in Europe after fleeing the United
States in 1978 after being convicted of raping a then 13-year-old girl. His
French citizenship has prevented him from being taken back to the U.S. and,
despite his conviction, has been a prominent filmmaker for the last 40 years.
http://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/2018/05/08/roman-polanski-threatens-academy-with-legal-action-over-recent-expulsion.html |
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