Sep
30
AFP – Brazil’s most celebrated architect Oscar Niemeyer underwent colon surgery in the second operation for the 101-year-old in a week, a hospital official said.
Sep
30
AP – The number of gay and bisexual characters on prime-time network TV is up slightly this season to 18 out of a total of 600 roles, according to the Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation.
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Sep
30
AP – The following excerpts are from a transcript of the March 1977 grand jury proceedings that led to Roman Polanski’s indictment on charges of furnishing a controlled substance to a minor, lewd or lascivious act on a child under 14, unlawful sexual intercourse with a female under the age of 18, rape by use of drugs, perversion (now called oral copulation) and sodomy.
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Sep
30
AFP – A retired prosecutor whose revelations in a recent documentary on Roman Polanski highlighted serious irregularities in the filmmaker’s 1977 child sex trial now says he lied about the case, the Los Angeles Times reported.
Sep
30
AP – A former prosecutor said Wednesday he lied when he told a documentary film crew that he advised a judge handling Roman Polanski’s sex case that he should send the director to prison.
