Broadway Star Threatens To Leave US After Airport Arrest

IMDB.com ^ | 4 November 2005

[paudio]

Tony Award-winning actor Denis O'Hare is considering emigration after his boyfriend was detained as a terror suspect by police at a Virginia airport. The Take Me Out star was returning from his sister's wedding with Hugo Redwood, when their one-way tickets prompted an extra security check. Redwood's ill-advised jest that they were terror suspects led to his temporary arrest, as well as charges of disorderly conduct. But Redwood believes the allegations are ridiculous and unlawful. He says, "The incident report, if you read it, is laughable. It's clearly perjured to cover their asses. The second guard said he heard me shout, 'I'm a damn terrorist,' which is ridiculous. And if this was really about terrorism, why would they not bother to question the person I was flying with?" O'Hare is furious at his partner's treatment and insists president George W. Bush's security paranoia is demeaning the country. He says, "For the first time I feel like leaving the country. America is becoming a nightmare with the permanent war culture brought on by this president. I don't recognize my country."

[paudio]

This person isn't aware that joking like that in front of security guards would have a consequence? And it's not a Bush thing. Somebody I know made a similar remark (I have a bomb!) in the mid 1990s, and they also arrested him for a while.

[ncountylee]

Bye bye.

[neodad]

For the first time I feel like leaving the country. America is becoming a nightmare with the permanent war culture brought on by this president. I don't recognize my country

Get another one way ticket. I hear Paris is beautiful this time of year.

[Gillmeister]

bump

UH, buh-bye ((waving))

[DLfromthedesert]

Good .. two fewer fruit

[DB]

Leave.

[LongElegantLegs]

Oh, no, not Denis O'hare! I can't live if Denis O'hare leaves the country!
Joking with Airport Security Ping

[badpacifist]

actor Denis O'Hare is considering emigration after his boyfriend was detained as a terror suspect

That makes me think of the the old commercials for "Fly United" ewwwwwwwwww

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

I suppose he thought all the signs up about not joking about such things were jokes?

BTW those signs have been up and the screener have had no sense of humor for as long as I have been flying and that has been almost thirty years now.

[GeorgiaDawg32]

NEWSFLASH: It happens to me all the time because of my schedule. I've been stopped many, many times because my name is "similar" to someone on the terror list..fyi, I'm a 52 year old folically challenged white guy..welcome to the land of the great unwashed..must be hell to not have your private jet handy..

[randog]

He says, "For the first time I feel like leaving the country....

Right, just like all your buddies that didn't immigrate to Canada? Sit down and STFU.

[libs_kma]

"Get another one way ticket. I hear Paris is beautiful this time of year."

"And forget what you've heard about Paris being cold this time of year...it's simply not the case."

[R. Scott]

Being a Broadway Star does not preclude him – or his boyfriend – from being an idiot.

[NickatNite2003]

Buh bye...Don't call us, we'll call you.

Could you *be* any less irrelaceable?
There are ten *thousand* ready to take your
place, and your now ended income.

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

"For the first time I feel like leaving the country...

See ya a-hole. Don't let the screen door hit ya where your boyfriend spits on ya.

[R. Scott]

Very Bad Visual.

[wheelright]

No loss as far as I'm concerned. Nevah hoid of 'im.

[Larry Lucido]

Star, huh? How have I managed to never have heard of him before?

[CarlEOlsoniii]

Take Me Out is the play about the gay baseball players, right?

[Reagan is King]

Oh no, another "star" might leave! He'll never leave, he just wants to throw a little hissy fit.