Film Academy Expels Bill Cosby and Roman Polanski From Membership

[mpthecat 928]

The Board of Governors of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has voted to expel actor Bill Cosby and director Roman Polanski from its membership ranks.

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

The move comes a week after Cosby was convicted of three counts of aggravated indecent assault brought against him by Andrea Constand. Cosby has been accused of sexual assault by as many as 60 women, a few of which testified at the emotional hearing.

Polanski has been on the lam for 40 years, ever since fleeing the country while awaiting sentencing for statutory rape in 1978. The case has undergone a number of bizarre twists over the decades, as the L.A. County District Attorney’s office has tried unsuccessfully to extradite him, and Polanski has tried unsuccessfully to resolve the case from afar.

Polanski’s attorney, Harland Braun, told Variety that the director was not afforded an opportunity to defend himself to the Academy, which he says is at odds with the process outlined Academy’s new code of conduct. However, there is a provision allowing the board to act whether that process is followed or not.

 

http://variety.com/2018/film/awards/film-academy-expels-bill-cosby-and-roman-polanski-from-membership-1202797252/

[weed 73,898]

Come thru finally! More work to be done but this is cute 

[zakariah 11,721]

I mean it's great that there's change happening, finally, but it's still sad to think that some of the Academy members have known these kinds of things were going on in the industry, & they did nothing to prevent/denounce it for the past 90 years.

[Neight Shayde 7,925]

23 minutes ago, Aquarius said:

I mean it's great that there's change happening, finally, but it's still sad to think that some of the Academy members have known these kinds of things were going on in the industry, & they did nothing to prevent/denounce it for the past 90 years.

this is exactly why i don't buy those kinds of decisions from people in hollywood. 

[zakariah 11,721]

46 minutes ago, BrothaGaga said:

this is exactly why i don't buy those kinds of decisions from people in hollywood. 

Yeah, I feel like they're just bandwagoning because it's trendy these days

[imnotyourbabe10 6,101]

Reminds me of how I just expelled all of Kanye's recordings from my iTunes library

 

OT: The Academy is doing a good thing but I'm sure there's more than just those two needing to get booted. Social change takes so freakin long sometimes.