http://abcnews.go.com/wire/Entertainment/ap20021114_2486.html
:eek:
Enquiring minds knew all about it months ago!
And Lydia’s dad (from Beetlejuice)
To me, he’ll always be Emperor Joseph II from Amadeus.
I’m such a music geek…
Don’t forget Beetlejuice, Sleepy Hollow, and a film called (I swear, it’s on imdb.com) “There’s no Fish Food in Heaven”.
Was that wrong? Should I not have done that?
Nice try, no biscuit.
From the IMDB:
Ed Rooney, Dean of Students
Even funnier is the fact that Ferris Bueller’s Day Off comes on tonight on either Starz or Encore.
I think his best ever performance was the eeevil (or possesed, take your pick) scientest in the under-appreciated blockbuster Howard the Duck.
Or as Broderick’s nemeis in Out on a Limb, 1992ish. Or in The Hunt for Red October.
Hell, Ferris Bueller’s Day Off is on every day of every week on some channel or another. Sometimes multiple channels.
Can you really be arrested for having sex with a 17-year-old? Isn’t that over the age of consent, like, everywhere? Or is this a statutory-rape thing?
Yup, statutory rape here. Consent is 18 in US AFIAK
It’s statutory rape in most jurisdictions if the older party is over 18 and/or (again, it depends) there is a more than 3-year age difference.
The laws obviously don’t apply if the parties involved are married, but that could require parental permission. I worked with a guy not long ago who married his wife when he was 19 and she 17.
Her mother signed a consent form. They’re still married, 19 years later.
Age of consent laws are decided by the state and thus the actual age and the punishment vary as one crosses state lines.
In Kansas, for instance, the age of consent is 16 (KSA 21-3505 if anyone is interested (and I only have it memorized because I looked it up last week (for a class))).
So a 17 year old is ok to shag in Kansas. But sodomy laws are still on the books and it’s a class B misdemeanor punishable by up to 6 months in jail. I have no idea what the laws are like in CA.
<shrugs> In California, he probably just needs a permit, or maybe he went over his quota.
I’d forgotten that the age difference could be the issue. And, of course, the child-porn possession, if it’s true. I was assuming that CA would have more liberal consent/sex laws than average, but that may not be the case.
I guess this is the end of his career.
According to the article, the arresting officer was Banky!
Banky…heh.
Age of consent in CA is indeed 18.
I hope it isn’t the end of his career. He’s one of my favorite character actors.
Any else see “Ravenous”? Or “Mom and Dad save the World”?