Yeah, people do just that, but they do it knowing the risk of pleading guilty to a crime. A heavy majority of the time the judge will go along with a plea bargain, but sometimes it doesn't happen. It's just a risk you take in that situation. Also, I don't see him claiming anywhere that he's actually innocent. I don't know enough about the case to know for sure, but I haven't seen anything where he's claiming innocence.




I agree they don't always mean the same thing, but in the context of Polanski and his situation when they say rules in the article it seems to me that it's a nice way of saying laws. If I wanted to say yes we admit he broke laws, but be nice about it I would choose the word "rules" instead of laws.




And like I said, it took someone else to agree to actually arrest him. If the government in Switzerland wouldn't agree to arrest him up until recently then the American government couldn't just have someone go to his house there and pick him up. I don't know how often he's been in Switzerland since the international warrant was issued a couple years ago, but I suspect that this is the first time that the government has known well in advance that he was going to be somewhere and actually gotten anyone to agree to arrest him.





Cult of Celebrity and Cult of Artistry aren't that different though. Cult of Artistry is simply the name applied to a smaller segment of celebrities...either way you still have to be famous for it to apply. That said, if the treatment of people such as athletes and rich business people in France is significantly different than that of artists, then yes, Cult of Artistry would be a better way of putting it.