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Posted by: Flasherly at February 20, 2008, 5:40 pm

Topic: Italian film festival to honor Polanski Forum: groupsrv

On Feb 20, 9:40 pm, Jared wrote: Quote: You can get married in this country at 15. I'm siding with the right-wing nutters on this one. It's called the age of consent for a reason, and a thirteen year old can't give it. Polanski was 44 at the time. What countries is that acceptable in? Not many First World ones I suspect. It's irrelevent anyway becasue she denies giving consent. More interesting to me is how that affects our viewing of his films (which I like). I suspect if we chucked out the work of every artist who was a scumbag we'd have a lot less art. True. Apart from his parents stories of the concentration camps Charles Mansion personified, he got off squeaky-clean. Some things just get [to be] done differently, that's all. -- [...] at 35, he became involved with 16-year-old Lita Grey during preparations for The Gold Rush. They married on November 26, 1924 after she became pregnant. They had two sons [and] actors. Their extraordinarily bitter divorce in 1928 had Chaplin paying Grey a then- record-breaking $825,000 settlement, on top of almost one million dollars in legal costs. The stress [...] allegedly turned his hair white. The Chaplin biographer Joyce Milton asserted in Tramp: The Life of Charlie Chaplin that the Grey-Chaplin marriage was the inspiration for Vladimir Nabokov's 1950s novel Lolita.

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