Sofia Coppola

Found guilty of murder in a foreign country, the convicted murderess served 4 years in an Italian prison before being acquitted, then enrolled in a college in the Pacific Northwest. She expects to graduate in June from the University of Washington with a degree in "creative writing."

She was young when the murder occurred, she's still young. There was sex, a three or four-way, and drugs, coke and pharmeceuticals. Everyone involved was in their twenties, and still are, except for the dead person, a young woman from England whose name in no longer mentioned in news reports of the incident.

The aquitted murderess, now 26, was recently re-tried and found guilty once again, the foreign court sentencing her "in abstentia" to 28 1/2 years in prison.

By now it's not an issue of whether she committed the murder or didn't, or whether the punishment fits the crime, but rather a question of who should adapt the material and direct the movie of her life once it is made.

Sofia Coppola, that master cinematician, conjurer of the netherworld of the young and restless wherein consequence is sacrificed for the thrill of the time-being, is the only choice.