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Will Smith was just banned from the Oscars for 10 years for slapping a guy. Unrelated but here’s an IMDb list of the most famous actors and directors who signed the letter asking for the statutory rape charges against Roman Polanski, who is not banned from the Oscars, to be dropped.

My response to learning this information about both Will Smith & Roman Polanski is best described by Fry here⤵

Shocked because they won’t forgive Will for slapping Chris Rock, because he was defending his Wife (Jada Pinkett Smith)’s Honor; but they will do so with a Rapist/Sexual Predator…

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Sharon Tate, photographed while on a break from filming The Fearless Vampire Killers in Italy. 1966.

A Taste of Urban Wyrd Cinema

A Taste of Urban Wyrd Cinema

Urban Wyrd: A mode not a genre. A sense of otherness within the narrative, experience, image or feeling concerning a densely human-constructed area or the in-between spaces and edge-lands bordering the bucolic and the built -up: Or surrounding modern technology with regard to another energy at play or in control: be it supernatural, spiritual, historical, nostalgic or psychological. Possibly…

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Sharon Tate in 12 + 1

“Separate the art from the artist!” Hollywood cheerfully reminds us, as they posthumously award Hitler with Best New Artist

Roman Polanski has finished shooting his new film and this is a little throwback: Roman Polanski & Mickey Rourke during a break from filming ‘The Palace’. Photo Credit: Angelo Borer

The last day on the set of ‘The Palace’. Photo by Małgorzata Abramowska. Thanks for sharing, Andrea Abate!

On the set of ‘The Palace’. Photos:Andrea Abate

Roman Polanski, John Cleese, Oliver Masucci on the set of ‘The Palace’. Photos: Małgorzata Abramowska

Roman Polanski, Gstaad, December 1969

On the set of ‘The Palace’: 1-2. Alfred Grossenbacher with Roman Polanski & Mickey Rourke, 3-6. Mauricio Kuckelkorn, 7. Daniel Blumensev, 8. Ph. Andrea Abate

Roman Polanski with Whoopi Goldberg, Vangelis and Jean-Paul Rappeneau at The Cannes Film Festival 1991

Roman Polanski & Vasco Rossi at The Venice Film Festival 1996.

Roman Polanski at The Venice Film Festival 1996.

Gstaad, May 2022, Veronice Deabreu & Roman Polanski on the set of ‘The Palace’. Photo credit: Veronice Deabreu

Roman Polanski

Roman Polanski & Emmanuelle Seigner at the Paris premiere of ‘The Ninth Gate’, Augst 1999

Roman Polanski & Catherine Deneuve on the set of ‘Repulsion’

Roman Polanski, Francesca Annis, Jon Finch at The Cannes Film Festival 1972

Warsaw, March 28, 2001, Roman Polanski & Adrien Brody

Roman Polanski photographed by Conrad Ward, New York City 1963