Why L.A. prosecutors nabbed Polanski now: It’s good PR
Anyone else wonder why authorities chose to arrest Roman Polanski now, after 31 years as a high-profile fugitive? (Remember when this fugitive won an Oscar in 2002?) “Arresting Polanski is about the L.A. prosecutor’s office’s public relations,” Michael Wolff, a Vanity Fair columnist, wrote for his blog on the Newser Web site. The prosecutor’s office in Los Angeles was embarrassed by an HBO documentary last year that detailed the Polanski case and called the behavior of t…

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