Turkeys, turkeys, turkeys. They were all over the news this holiday weekend.
First, there was the report that famed film director/infamous rapist Roman Polanski would be released on $4.5 million bail and placed under house arrest to a 19,000 square foot luxury ski chalet in Gstaad. (Remind you of Bernie Madoff?) Several news reports cite French President Nicolas Sarkozy as having been “very effective” in arranging Polanski’s new deal. Sarkozy reportedly never believed Polanski, who is 76, should have been arrested for a crime he committed 32 years ago. Maybe not if the courts were just now getting around to trying him, but Polanski fled the system after being found guilty and before serving his time.
What was most infuriating was the reporting by the Los Angeles Times, the AP and others who said Polanski had sex with a 13 year old. I understand Polanski pleaded guilty to this lesser charge, but the fact is he raped a girl. Sad that the media won’t just call the crime by its name.
Next on the turkey list was ABC. The network was planning to have Chris Brown, the one who beat up Rhianna, on “Good Morning America.” Supposedly, Brown was to give a “tell-all” interview or maybe perform on the show –he has a new album coming out. I just heard, minutes ago, that GMA cancelled and Brown will appear on “20/20″ instead.
Perhaps Brown is contrite. Who knows? But it is still incredibly irresponsible of ABC to give him air time and risk glamourizing him. However, we must consider the ratings.
And the weekend wrapped with plenty of turkey talk following Tiger Woods’ low speed, middle-of-the-night, one car crash. Being human, I too posited theories of what may have lead to the crash. But I won’t share them. First of all, it’s really none of my business. Second, how could I possibly know what happened? I wasn’t there.
But what I will comment on is how quickly the blogosphere, gossip sites and sports sites jumped all over Tiger’s wife, Elin Nordegren, and the woman the National Enquirer says he is romantically involved with, Rachel Uchitel.
MyFoxLA used the headline ”Tiger Woods Drama Comes to Los Angeles” in reference to Uchitel flying out west to meet with her lawyer. SFGate, a blog hosted by the San Francisco Chronicle, points out that Uchitel lives in New York’s Meatpacking District where Glenn Close’s psycho “Fatal Attraction” character lived. And the BleacherReport.com asks about Mrs. Woods, “Is she crazy hot, or is she just plain crazy?”
So the moral of the story is: famous golfer hits a tree, media insults women. Nice.
