elitist mentality and elitist society amongst themselves. neil: i don t know what the skinny was on that. guys like myself are thought of as celebrities, there s knowledge wrong with that. i m i d can kidding. it s getting beyond the pale here. everybody bonds with oh, the president is here and all this stuff. and but it s just i don t know i seems creepy to me. i like covering these dinners. it s one time of year i have a rubber chicken dinner and lindsey lohan is prancing around. behind that, the celebrity element, the entertainer helps make it a tv spectacle and raise more money neil: they can do that without doing this. exactly.
kind of scandal. samantha geimer was 13 when roman polanski raped her. she tells the story in the girl in the life in the shadow of roman polanski. thanks very much for being here. it must bring back a lot of vivid memories for you when you see another story that is of a similar nature. celebrity meets illicit sex, meets scandal and lots of headlines. it really has been an odd sense of deja vu, seeing this play out again, something like this in such a public way. and with the similarities of hollywood connection and people s rather strong opinions. it takes me back to when it happened to me. do you feel that the public opinion towards scandals like this is slightly warped by the celebrity element? in other words, different to how it would be if there was no celebrity involved? i think there s a lot more opinion if there s a celebrity. not necessarily one way or the other, just a lot more emotion, more opinion all the way around.
of woody allen and dylan pharoah, graphic charges he sexually abused her when she was 7 years old made headlines around the world. joining me a woman who knows too well to be the center of this kind of scandal. samantha geimer was 13 when roman polanski raped her. she tells the story in the girl in the life in the shadow of roman polanski. thanks very much for being here. it must bring back a lot of vivid memories for you when you see another story that is of a similar nature. celebrity meets illicit sex, meets scandal and lots of headlines. it really has been an odd sense of deja vu, seeing this play out again, something like this in such a public way. and with the similarities of hollywood connection and people s rather strong opinions. it takes me back to when it happened to me. do you feel that the public opinion towards scandals like this is slightly warped by the celebrity element?
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