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Support
in the entertainment industry for Roman Polanski continued to build on
Tuesday -- but a backlash was felt as well as critics pointed to his original
crime of raping a 13-year-old.
Veteran indie film producer Harvey Weinstein used an open letter to urge "every U.S. filmmaker to lobby against any move to bring Polanski back to the U.S. ... A deal was made with the judge, and the deal is not being honored."
Woody Allen and Martin Scorsese joined Weinstein in signing the global filmmakers' petition to free Polanski.
And the director of the documentary "Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired," Marina Zenovich, has headed to Switzerland to continue shooting footage of the controversial legal saga surrounding the Oscar-winning director who was the subject of her movie.
Meanwhile, in Poland, the prime minister asked his Cabinet members to subdue their angry calls for the release of Polanski. He noted that the case involved "punishment for having sex with a child.'' In France, which has actively worked against the Polanski extradition, dissent was heard in the National Assembly as a key legislator in the ruling center-right party criticized the nation's immediate support for the fugitive director.
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In the U.S., Katie Buckland, executive director of the
California Women's Law Center, told the L.A. Times that supporting the
director's release "sends a message that the rich and powerful can get away with
crimes that no one else can get away with."
Polanski's lawyers have asked
that the director be released from Swiss custody, filing a motion Tuesday in an
effort to stop his extradition to the U.S.
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