Commentary: When Roman Polanski wins a directing award, does an entire #MeToo movement lose?
Toxic as it sounds, imagine the inside of convicted rapist Harvey Weinstein's head. Imagine what he's thinking, now that his rampant sexual predation has come to a presumptive close, and with his life's third act plodding along in less glamorous circumstances than the Oscar-winning movie producer surely imagined for himself.
If Weinstein has Roman Polanski on the brain, is he interior-muttering six little words, over and over?
Some guys have all the luck.
On Friday at the Cesar Awards, France's equivalent to the Academy Awards, the 86-year-old Polanski - convicted decades ago on charges of statutory rape of a 13-year-old in the United States and still a fugitive from justice - won the best director prize for his latest film, "An Officer and a Spy."
A beautifully crafted historical drama, it
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