Art imitates life in Roman Polanski‘s “The Ghost Writer.” The Cinema Society and Screenvision-sponsored screening on Thursday drew Brooke Shields, Julian Schnabel, U2’s The Edge, Piper Perabo and Helena Christensen, who partied at the Crosby Street Hotel alongside the movie’s stars, Ewan McGregor and Pierce Brosnan.
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For much of the film, which was made before Polanski’s arrest, the characters are confined to a protected compound on Martha’s Vineyard. Polanski remains under house arrest in his luxury Swiss lodge over his three-decade-old child-rape case.