MOVIE BUZZ: A documentary about the circumstances that led the director of Rosemary’s Baby and Chinatown to flee the U.S. in 1978, after pleading guilty to illegal sex with a 13-year-old girl, has been released very quietly. In an odd reverse marketing scheme, the film - which has already been purchased by HBO Entertainment but is obligated to hold screenings in New York and L.A. to qualify for Oscar nominations - is holding very quiet showings at inconvenient times and locations and minimal publicity to ensure the film still has an eager audience when it airs on HBO in June.

The Best Links:

1. Roman Polanski Banging A 13-Year-Old Or Hollywood Blindly Embracing Him Despite It All?
2. “The Judge, the Director and the Vagaries of Justice” The NYT Review
3. “HBO’s Polanski Doc Has an Error”
4. Polanski Doc Opens In NY With No Publicity
5. Roman Polanski Doc and its Stupid Theatrical Release
6. Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired (2008)
7. “Pondering Polanski in New Doc (Not Coming to a Theater Near You)”
8. Outlandish Oscar Rules Force Film Arguing For Polanski’s Exoneration To Wait for Cable TV [Buried Alive]
9. Polanski plays Washington Heights
10. More on the Polanski Thing
11. Manohla Calls HBOs Bluff and Reviews POLANSKI