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ROMAN POLANSKI - WHEN HE WAS FREE

As it turns out, unlike ignoring a credit card bill and dodging collectors for seven years so that it magically disappears,

you can't just breeze off a 32-year-old warrant

. Let's take a look back to 1976, before his alleged transgression, when Roman Polanski was wandering the Seychelles in the golden fuzzy chested buff, brandishing a sword dick, surrounded by swashbuckling men in half-open ruffly shirts.

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Harry Benson

talks about his documentation of

Roman Polanski's Pirate Days

in our

Film Issue

.