Hollywood embraces Roman Polanski
[cnn-photo-caption image=http://i2.cdn.turner.com/cnn/2009/SHOWBIZ/09/29/hollywood.embraces.polanski/art.polanski.gi.jpg caption="Peers of Roman Polanski have praised him for his talent and lamented his arrest."]
Rachel Wells
CNN
When filmmaker Roman Polanski was arrested Saturday in Switzerland, he was on his way to accept an award for Lifetime Achievement at the Zurich Film Festival.
Polanski's friend, Swiss filmmaker Otto Weisser, was among the first to publicly run to his defense.
"This is for me a shock. I am ashamed to be Swiss, that the Swiss is doing such a thing to brilliant fantastic genius, that millions and millions of people love his work," Weisser said upon learning the director had been detained by Swiss authorities. "He's a brilliant guy, and he made a little mistake 32 years ago. What a shame for Switzerland."
By Tuesday, more than 130 heavyweights in the movie industry had taken up Polanski's cause.
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Time for him to finally face the crime and do the time!
give him the max, sick and tired of these guys thinking there above the law.