RULES DON'T COUNT WHEN YOU'RE ELITE

Not all celebrities are amoral twits.

Agence French Press has more balanced coverage on Roman Polanski than does the American press. For instance, this story on actor Jamie Foxx.

Oscar-winning actor Jamie Foxx has hinted he would take the law into his own hands if it had been his daughter at the center of the Roman Polanski child sex case.

Foxx, the Academy Award-winning star of "Ray," told Parade magazine in an interview that Polanski, who is facing extradition to the United States, would simply "be missing" if it had been his child.

"If it had been my daughter who was barely a teenager -- my daughter is 15 -- Roman Polanski would be missing... period," Foxx said. "It wouldn't even get to the court case.

THE MONEY QUOTE, however, is the last two lines.

The Oscar-winning director fled the United States in 1978 after pleading guilty to the charge.

He had initially been charged with rape following an incident in 1977 when he gave a 13-year-old girl a powerful sedative before sodomizing her.

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The above story was carried only by CBS News and ContactMusic.com. Minus, of course, the fact that Polanski sodomized the drugged girl.

The Swiss Parliament's Foreign Policy Commission has backed the decision to arrest and detail Polanski, saying the arrest based on a U.S. criminal warrant was justified. Meanwhile, resident Nicolas Sarkozy continues to criticize the arrest and the French Culture Minister has more dirt in this past.

The latest controversy emerged after a French newspaper said Mitterrand had testified to the "good character" of two youths in the French overseas territory of La Reunion charged with the gang rape of a 16-year-old girl.

The minister on Saturday said he was godfather to one of the youths, whose mother is a former make-up artist, and underlined that his letter was a "gesture of compassion and generosity" to a "modest" family in "great distress."

Meanwhile, Sarkozy defends the appointment of his 23-year-old son as chairman of the agency that runs the premier business district in France has prompted charges of nepotism at home and abroad.

The Culture Minister is the nephew of late President Francois Mitterrand.