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Film Academy Expels Bill Cosby and Roman Polanski From Membership
Variety ^ | May 3, 2018 | Kristopher Tapley

Posted on 05/03/2018 11:33:34 AM PDT by EdnaMode

The Board of Governors of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has voted to expel actor Bill Cosby and director Roman Polanksi from its membership ranks. The move comes a week after Cosby was convicted of three counts of aggravated indecent assault brought against him by Andrea Constand, and after disgraced movie mogul Harvey Weinstein was first expelled from the organization last year.

Polanski has been on the lam for 40 years, ever since fleeing the country while awaiting sentencing for statutory rape in 1978.

The decision to remove Cosby and Polanski from the membership was made Tuesday, May 1 at a scheduled board meeting.

The full AMPAS statement:

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ Board of Governors met on Tuesday night (May 1) and has voted to expel actor Bill Cosby and director Roman Polanski from its membership in accordance with the organization’s Standards of Conduct. The Board continues to encourage ethical standards that require members to uphold the Academy’s values of respect for human dignity.


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It's about time with Roman Polanski.
1 posted on 05/03/2018 11:33:34 AM PDT by EdnaMode
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To: EdnaMode
Rapists.

Soon the pedophiles.

2 posted on 05/03/2018 11:36:49 AM PDT by Slyfox (Not my circus, not my monkeys)
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To: EdnaMode

But not Harvey Weinstein or Kevin Spacey?


3 posted on 05/03/2018 11:36:58 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (You cannot invade the mainland US. There'd be a rifle behind every blade of grass.)
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To: EdnaMode

How many years did it take them to Decide to expel Roman?


4 posted on 05/03/2018 11:37:41 AM PDT by The_Media_never_lie (The MSM is the enemy of the American people)
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To: EdnaMode

Polanski hasn’t voted in decades I’m guessing. This means nothing really.


5 posted on 05/03/2018 11:38:27 AM PDT by Borges
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To: EdnaMode

But are they going to rescind the Academy Awards given to Roman Polanski?


6 posted on 05/03/2018 11:38:31 AM PDT by Paleo Conservative (Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they're not really out to get you.)
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To: EdnaMode

The Board continues to encourage ethical standards that require members to uphold the Academy’s values of respect for human dignity.


Encourage, but not require.

Got it.


7 posted on 05/03/2018 11:39:11 AM PDT by ConservativeWarrior (Fall down 7 times, stand up 8. - Japanese proverb)
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To: Paleo Conservative

I don’t think that’s allowed.


8 posted on 05/03/2018 11:39:47 AM PDT by Borges
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To: EdnaMode

Strange. Obviously, their policy or consensus was to wait until someone is actually convicted. So that makes sense re Cosby. But then someone in the back of the room mentioned that Polanski was convicted of raping a child in every orifice he could find, 30 years ago.

Whoops.

They have feted him a zillion times since them.

NOW WE GIVE A SHOOT. Before, all that was A-ok, just no dead girls or live boys, people, we run a classy industry here.


9 posted on 05/03/2018 11:44:31 AM PDT by Yaelle
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

But not Harvey Weinstein or Kevin Spacey?


Their policy may rest on a conviction in a court of law.


10 posted on 05/03/2018 11:45:04 AM PDT by Yaelle
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To: Paleo Conservative

Good question.


11 posted on 05/03/2018 11:46:31 AM PDT by EdnaMode
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To: EdnaMode

Meryl Streep is going to flip her wig. Roman is one of her Pals! They go way back.


12 posted on 05/03/2018 11:48:03 AM PDT by lee martell
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To: The_Media_never_lie

More than a decade.


13 posted on 05/03/2018 11:49:11 AM PDT by EdnaMode
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To: Yaelle

It seems they only pretend to care now that the Times Up and Me Too movements are getting so much attention. The fact that they took that long to expel Polanski proves they are all hypocrites.


14 posted on 05/03/2018 11:50:44 AM PDT by EdnaMode
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To: EdnaMode

It just goes to show that they did not want to eject Polanski but felt they had to do it in order to avoid being charged with hypocrisy when they ejected Cosby.


15 posted on 05/03/2018 12:00:48 PM PDT by Brilliant
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To: EdnaMode

Wake me when they kick out Woody Allen.


16 posted on 05/03/2018 12:06:23 PM PDT by Mercat
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“It just goes to show that they did not want to eject Polanski but felt they had to do it in order to avoid being charged with hypocrisy when they ejected Cosby” not hypocrisy but racism.


17 posted on 05/03/2018 12:07:50 PM PDT by Mercat
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To: EdnaMode

Does this mean that there won’t be a Leonard Part 7?


18 posted on 05/03/2018 12:08:33 PM PDT by irishjuggler
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To: EdnaMode

Boy!

You can’t sneak anything by these people!

Don’t even try!

Polanski drugged and raped a 13 year old girl in 1977 and then ran off to Europe to avoid prison in the US.

Then BAM! Just like that, only 41 years later, he gets tossed out of The Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences.

These people are not to be trifled with!


19 posted on 05/03/2018 12:12:17 PM PDT by Iron Munro (If Illegals Voted Republican 66 Million Democrats Would Be Screaming "Build The Wall !")
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To: EdnaMode

Yep. They only care when it looks bad if they don’t.


20 posted on 05/03/2018 12:15:01 PM PDT by Yaelle
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