Polish director and most famous wanted rapist in the world may well have been chosen to head up the judging panel for the Cesars (that's Oscars with baguettes and class), but it has been announced that he won't be taking part in the judging of the Children's film category.
In 1978, Polanski was convicted in the USA of having sex with an underage girl, his defence that "They were all doing it. It was practically a national pastime," being rejected by the judge, the jury and the executioner. He immediately fled the country for places that wouldn't extradite him on the grounds that he 'made better films than Hollywood'.
He is also a staunch supported of Julian Assange, who also took refuge in another country to avoid sex charges.
Mlle Pellicule, a spokesperson for the Cesars organisers, the French Academy of Cinema Arts and Techniques, stated in a sexy french accent that "M. Polanski is an insatiable aesthete," before adding, "well, insatiable anyway."
Women's groups across France have promised to boycott the ceremony and to look up the word 'aesthete' as soon as they get home.
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