That’s right — no more cell for Mr. Roman Polanski. The 76-year-old director, under arrest for the 1977 rape of a 13-year-old girl, was granted bail at the equivalent of a $4.5 million in late November and has since relocated to the Swiss Alps to await his fate. His luxurious house arrest — or “chalet arrest” as CNN dubbed it — has now begun, and would be the envy of his prison roommates, the below report states obviously, failing to mention that being “confined” to a house in the Alps is what most people call a dream vacation.

While our country is engulfed in two wars, struggling to climb back after falling off of an economic cliff last year and trying to find a way to provide health care for nearly fifty million uninsured Americans, I am glad to see that some of Hollywood’s elite, (including Mr. Weinstein, Ms. Winger and Woody Allen, among others) have found a truly important cause worth fighting for: defending Roman Polanski.

Sunday’s arrest of Roman Polanski took most of the world by surprise and much was made in the American papers about how dearly the French loved and supported Polanski, especially their government! Not so fast. According to the Times the French public may not actually be so hot on Polanski’s freedom.