On Sep 30, 2009, at 1:00 PM, Dennis Claxton wrote:
> Polanski has admitted it himself and I'm not talking about his
> guilty plea. He's on record saying it happened at least as early as
> a 60 minutes interview with Mike Wallace after he left the country
Frankie Thomas, keeper of the excellent Verlyn Klinkenborg blog, posed this question as a thought experiment as a Facebook status update this morning: what if he'd raped a boy? Would the French be rushing to his defense?