I’m throwing in my cards. Bad hand. When Whoopi says it wasn’t “rape-rape”, I have to gag. Polanski and Hollywood need to get about 50 years apiece. There’s a whole lot of goofy things being said by both sides but the man did it, admitted it and then ran away rather than face justice. His “exile” was not exactly punishment since he lived the life of a rich and celebrated film director. He was well aware that there were countries, in which he might be arrested, if he travelled to one. While he avoided travelling to the UK, for instance, he thought he was safe in Switzerland. Aware that he was a international fugitive, perhaps the idiot shouldn’t have left France.