Roman Polanski's threesome in Munich
The photo dates form 29 September 1977 and it was taken in a beer tent at Munich's Oktoberfest. If features film director Roman Polanski and a group of young girls. Interestingly, no one present at the table is wearing the faux peasant garb that is now ubiquitous at the festival.
And now, a snippet from the director's memoir, ingeniously titled Roman by Polanski. We are still in Munich, and the date is October 1976:One day a German gossip columnist invited me out on a double date with two girls he wanted me to meet. Both were young and, in different ways, strikingly beautiful. One of them was rather dowdily dressed. I asked her name. "My friends call me Nasty," she said. [...] Very late that night, after a long round of discos, the four of us ended up in my suite. Leaving Nasty with the journalist, I took the other girl, a stunning blonde, to bed. By the time I surfaced the journalist had gone. Nasty was half-asleep in an armchair in the sitting room. Taking her by the hand, I led her back into the bedroom.We never repeated this threesome, though I saw a lot of both girls thereafter. I dated the blonde for several weeks, but it was Nasty who grew on me more and more. [...]
Nastassia introdued me to her mother, who discussed her career with me [...]. That was when I first learned Nastassia's age. She was only fifteen.
We made love more than once during my three months in Munich. [...] On the night we met I'd thought her a couple of years older than her friend, who was, in fact, seventeen.
Nick Gillespie asked "Should Roman Polanski Be Held Accountable to His Own Guilty Plea?" It looks like the Swiss courts are determined that he will be.

Comments
In case you were being sarcastic, implying that the title of his bio was not very ingenious at all: in many other languages "Roman by Polanski" IS actually quite a funny title for this work. Because "Roman" means "novel", which of course an autobiography is not.
Check out the "other languages" links down the left-hand border of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Novel ; just a mouse-over should show you the URLs including "/Roman" (or some close variation thereof) in quite a lot of them.
HTH!
Posted by: Christian R. Conrad | October 13, 2009 12:25 AM