Just a week after Bill Cosby was convicted of assaulting a woman, the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences issued a statement announcing that both he and director Roman Polanski would be expelled for violating the organization’s standards of conduct.
Polanski, the director of well-regarded films including Chinatown and Rosemary’s Baby, admitted to and was convicted of raping a 13-year-old girl in 1977, and there’s been…
