 | The plea bargain is the moment when the case pivoted from the story of what Polanski did to Samantha Gailey to the story of what the system did to him. Polanski’s detractors focus on the first, his supporters on the second, but the two are interwined, and both were shaped by the influence of Polanski celebrity. |
✖ Via The New Yorker: “The Celebrity Defense. Sax, fame and the case of Roman Polanski” by Jeffrey Toobin, Dec. 14, 2009, p. 57 Excellent article on the subject : Toobin makes an explicite effort to restrain himself to the presentation of hard (legal) facts.
Jeffrey Toobin is a staff writer to The New Yorker. He is also “the author of five books, including The Nine: Inside the Secret World of the Supreme Court, which won the 2008 J. Anthony Lukas Book Prize” (TNY). Check his official website. |
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 | I’m not afraid to compete. It’s just the opposite. Don’t you see that? I’m afraid I will compete―that’s what scares me. That’s why I quit the Theater Department. Just because I’m so horribly conditioned to accept everybody else’s values, and just because I like applause and people to rave about me, doesn’t make it right. I’m ashamed of it. I’m sick of it. I’m sick of not having the courage to be an absolute nobody. I’m sick of myself and everybody else that wants to make some kind of a splash. |
✖ Via The New Yorker, “Franny” by J.D. Salinger, Jan 29, 1955, pp. 34-35 |
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 | Then he made a curious remark one could think about for the rest of the week. It was characteristic of a great deal about Foreman. “Excuse me for not shaking hands with you,” he said in that voice so carefully muted to retain his power, “but you see I’m keeping my hands in my pockets. |
✖ Via The Fight by Norman Mailer, Boston: Little Brown and Company, first edition, 1975, p. 45 [Amazon] The Fight is Norman Mailer’s account of the historical boxing match that took place on October 30th, 1974 between George Foreman and Muhammad Ali. Learn more about it on Wikipedia.
From the jacket of the first edition:
“The Fight shows off Norman Mailer in the sharpest writing trim of his career. Three champions ― Muhammad Ali, George Foreman, and Norman Mailer ― converge to Zaïre, Africa, for a fifteen-round, heavyweight-title “rumble in the jungle”, and the outcome is fast, funny, and truly explosive: Mailer’s most perceptive writing to date about the sport he knows best and the play of forces, the carnival of personalities, that surrounds him.” |
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