Roman Polanski:

A lot of Hollywood types are arguing that he should be treated differently, excused, because he's a Great Artist, he survived the Holocaust and his pregnant wife was brutally murdered by a gang of crazies. But they seem to miss the point, that he was already given special consideration due to those special circumstances. His original sentence was that he was to pay the girl's family for their suffering. I think most people convicted of rape would love to get off so easily in court. But instead, he flees the country, and now he's in as much trouble for running away as he was for raping a 13 year old girl. Even in Hollywood, no one should be allowed two second chances for something like that.

Speaking of things like that, the "why didn't Mackenzie Phillip's father pick her much prettier sister" jokes are really cruel and tasteless. It's not always about who is prettier, maybe it was *because* she wasn't the prettiest one-more easily manipulated, more open to victimization... Anyway, anyone who knows about The Mamas and Papas knows that John was not such a great guy to begin with, one of his sons even came out and said "I hated my dad".

I'm ticked off that Southland was cancelled before their second season even started. It would've been better just to cancell it at the end of last season and not get everyone's hopes up. And why were they cancelled? It wasn't because of low ratings, or poor reviews, it was a great success. They were cancelled because the network decided that it was not family friendly enough to be a lead in to the new Jay Leno show at ten p.m.

Uh...what? But nine or ten p.m is when all the more mature shows are scheduled, so won't this mean they'll have to shuffle the entire schedule now? I know Southland is a little graphic but to dump a wonderful show that had a chance of being a big success, in order to placate an aging talk show host who wants to drag his dated act out for a few more years?