Conchords Take Flight…Again

Introducing…the first episode from the second season of HBO’s Flight of the Conchords — exactly an entire week before it officially premieres!
If you prefer, you may save your 13th viewing of this episode for when it officially premieres this coming Sunday at 10PM on HBO.

Polanski Pleads his Case

Thirty years after he became a fugitive to avoid a prison sentence for having sex with a teenager, Academy Award-winning director Roman Polanski asked a judge Tuesday to dismiss the case.
In the motion filed in Los Angeles County Superior Court, lawyers for Polanski alleged “repeated, unlawful and unethical misconduct” by a prosecutor and the trial judge and requested that the charge which prompted him to flee the country be dropped “in the interests of justice.”
The request to dismiss the charge, which took court officials and prosecutors by surprise, is based on revelations in a documentary broadcast in June on HBO. The film, “Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired,” portrayed the legal proceeding as hopelessly tainted by backroom dealings between a vindictive judge and a deputy district attorney meddling in his colleagues’ case.
Los Angeles Times report HERE

Case of the Kissing Boxer

On Saturday night at the Pechanga Resort & Casino in Temecula, California, Jesse Vargas was in the ring against Trenton Titsworth in a junior welterweight bout featured on HBO’s Boxing After Dark program. Titsworth had two points deducted after kissing Vargas on the neck. Vargas won in a unanimous decision 39-34.
more w/video HERE