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Roman Holiday.(Roman Polanski)(Editorial)

Vanity Fair

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Byline: Graydon Carter

Why should Dominick have all the fun? On a London morning in mid-July, a week and a half after the transit bombings, I found myself in Courtroom No. 13 of the Royal Courts of Justice as Vanity Fair defended itself in a libel action brought by the film director Roman Polanski, a fugitive from American justice who has been living in France for the past 27 years. That an American magazine could be brought to trial in an English court by a man who resides in France is one of the many vagaries of the British legal system. But more of that later.

Sadly, there are lots of things I can't say in this column without upsetting the courts. I ...

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