Leroy Neiman Sketchbook
August, 1981
I First Met Roman Polanski 17 years ago in London, when I attended a private viewing of some of his early films made in Poland. They were dynamite. Dynamite and sensitive. Like so many talented people, Polanski drew well, always leaning toward humor and the bizarre. After we became friends, he and I sometimes sketched together. Recently, at the carnival in Rio, I encountered him in exile. I was delighted to find him unchanged, full of energy and enjoying life, and that's the way I sketched him....
