The Roman Polanski Story
Author | : Thomas Kiernan |
Publisher | : Random House (NY) |
Total Pages | : 298 |
Release | : 1980 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9780394513966 |
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Author | : Thomas Kiernan |
Publisher | : Random House (NY) |
Total Pages | : 298 |
Release | : 1980 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9780394513966 |
Author | : Samantha Geimer |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 272 |
Release | : 2014-06-17 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1476716846 |
In this searing memoir, the author, "the girl" at the center of the infamous Roman Polanski sexual assault case, breaks a virtual thirty-five year silence to tell her story and reflect on the events of that day and their lifelong repercussions. March 1977, Southern California. Roman Polanski drives a rented Mercedes along Mulholland Drive to Jack Nicholson's house. Sitting next to him is an aspiring actress, Samantha Geimer, recently arrived from York, Pennsylvania. She is thirteen years old. The undisputed facts of what happened in the following hours appear in the court record: Polanski spent hours taking pictures of Samantha on a deck overlooking the Hollywood Hills, on a kitchen counter, topless in a Jacuzzi. Wine and Quaaludes were consumed, balance and innocence were lost, and a young girl's life was altered forever, eternally cast as a background player in her own story. For months on end, the Polanski case dominated the media in the U.S. and abroad. But even with the extensive coverage, much about that day and the girl at the center of it all remains a mystery. Just about everyone had an opinion about the renowned director and the girl he was accused of drugging and raping. Who was the predator? Who was the prey? Was the girl an innocent victim or a cunning Lolita artfully directed by her ambitious stage mother? How could the criminal justice system have failed all the parties concerned in such a spectacular fashion? Once Polanski fled the country, what became of Samantha, the young girl forever associated with one of Hollywood's most notorious episodes? Samantha, as much as Polanski, has been a fugitive since the events of that night more than thirty years ago. Taking us far beyond the headlines, this memoir reveals a thirteen-year-old who was simultaneously wise beyond her years and yet terribly vulnerable. By telling her story in full for the first time, Samantha reclaims her identity, and indelibly proves that it is possible to move forward from victim to survivor, from confusion to certainty, from shame to strength.
Author | : Thomas Kiernan |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1980 |
Genre | : Motion picture producers and directors |
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Author | : Outlet |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 1988-12-01 |
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ISBN | : 9780517398180 |
Author | : Roman Polanski |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 392 |
Release | : 1984 |
Genre | : Motion picture producers and directors |
ISBN | : 9780434591800 |
This is the long-forgotten and long out-of-print memoir of a genius storyteller...as great as his greatest movie. 20th Anniversary of the original publication.
Author | : Roman Polanski |
Publisher | : New York : Morrow |
Total Pages | : 478 |
Release | : 1984 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9780688026219 |
Finally back in print, this is the long-forgotten and long out-of-print memoir of a genius storyteller--as great as his greatest movie. The engrossing autobiography is released on the 20th anniversary of the original publication.
Author | : Julia Ain-Krupa |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing USA |
Total Pages | : 196 |
Release | : 2009-12-21 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0313377812 |
This book offers an examination of the films of Roman Polanski, focusing on the impact that his life as an exile has had upon his work. Roman Polanski: A Life in Exile is a revealing look at this acclaimed filmmaker whose life in exile seems to have made his films all the more personal and powerful. Written by a film critic, this insightful book follows Polanski's story from his childhood in a World War II Jewish ghetto to his early films in Poland; from his American breakout, Rosemary's Baby, to his wife's murder by the Manson family; from the spectacular return of Chinatown, to his exile as a convicted sex criminal, to the monumental career peak, The Pianist. The Holocaust, the oppression of communism, the shattering of the swinging 60s, the decadence of Hollywood, the life of a fugitive—Polanski experienced all of these firsthand, and understanding those experiences provides a fascinating pathway through his work.
Author | : James Greenberg |
Publisher | : Harry N. Abrams |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2013-08-06 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 9781419707216 |
This is the story of Roman Polanski's career from his early work such as 'Knife in the Water', through to his latest masterpiece, 'Carnage'.
Author | : Roman Polanski |
Publisher | : Ballantine Books |
Total Pages | : 448 |
Release | : 1985-04-01 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : 9780345305121 |
The film director describes his youth in Nazi Poland, his film directing career, the murder of his wife, Sharon Tate, his arrest on a morals charge, his new acting career, and his films
Author | : Sam Wasson |
Publisher | : Flatiron Books |
Total Pages | : 336 |
Release | : 2020-02-04 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : 1250301831 |
From the New York Times bestselling author of Fifth Avenue, Five A.M. and Fosse comes the revelatory account of the making of a modern American masterpiece Chinatown is the Holy Grail of 1970s cinema. Its twist ending is the most notorious in American film and its closing line of dialogue the most haunting. Here for the first time is the incredible true story of its making. In Sam Wasson's telling, it becomes the defining story of the most colorful characters in the most colorful period of Hollywood history. Here is Jack Nicholson at the height of his powers, as compelling a movie star as there has ever been, embarking on his great, doomed love affair with Anjelica Huston. Here is director Roman Polanski, both predator and prey, haunted by the savage death of his wife, returning to Los Angeles, the scene of the crime, where the seeds of his own self-destruction are quickly planted. Here is the fevered dealmaking of "The Kid" Robert Evans, the most consummate of producers. Here too is Robert Towne's fabled script, widely considered the greatest original screenplay ever written. Wasson for the first time peels off layers of myth to provide the true account of its creation. Looming over the story of this classic movie is the imminent eclipse of the '70s filmmaker-friendly studios as they gave way to the corporate Hollywood we know today. In telling that larger story, The Big Goodbye will take its place alongside classics like Easy Riders, Raging Bulls and The Devil's Candy as one of the great movie-world books ever written. Praise for Sam Wasson: "Wasson is a canny chronicler of old Hollywood and its outsize personalities...More than that, he understands that style matters, and, like his subjects, he has a flair for it." - The New Yorker "Sam Wasson is a fabulous social historian because he finds meaning in situations and stories that would otherwise be forgotten if he didn't sleuth them out, lovingly." - Hilton Als