Bad timing. Dressed up in drag as a woman, maybe he should have chosen to "dye another day".
Posted on 02/02/2006 9:10:20 PM PST by MillerCreek
New Zealand filmmaker Lee Tamahori, who directed the James Bond movie "Die Another Day," has been arrested in a Hollywood prostitution sting while dressed in drag.
Tamahori, 55, was arrested on January 8 when he allegedly sought sex with an undercover policeman while clad in women's clothes, according to a criminal complaint filed in the Los Angeles Superior Court.
"Mr Tamahori was arrested for soliciting. I can confirm he was dressed in women's clothing at the time of the arrest," Officer Jason Lee of the Los Angeles Police Department said.
Prosecutors confirmed they had filed two misdemeanour charges against the Hollywood filmmaker: agreeing to engage in an act of prostitution and unlawfully loitering on Hollywood's Santa Monica Boulevard.
"He was arrested after approaching an undercover officer who was sitting in his car and offering to perform a sex act," Frank Mateljan of the Los Angeles City Attorney's office.
"The defendant was dressed in drag, loitering on the sidewalk," the spokesman said.
Tamahori also directed last year's action adventure "XXX: State of the Union" with Samuel L. Jackson and Willem Dafoe and 2001's "Along Came a Spider" with Morgan Freeman.
He is due to appear in court in Los Angeles on February 24 to be arraigned on the two charges. He is free on 2,000 dollars bail, according to the City Attorney's office.
Tamahori's lawyer, celebrity attorney Mark Geragos, did not immediately return calls for comment on the arrest of the filmmaker.
He started out as a commercial artist and photographer in New Zealand, before entering the film industry in the late 1970 as a boom microphone operator, going on to become an assistant director.
Tamahori got his break in Hollywood directing an episode of the hit television series "The Sopranos" in 2000 and went on do "Spider" the following year, before making "Die Another Day" starring Piece Brosnan and Oscar-winning Bond girl Halle Berry in 2002.
More from "Hollywood" to no one else's surprise.
Hooray for Hollywood!
they just get more and more impressive everyday don't they? GAG!!!
DISCUSSION ABOUT: New Zealand Filmmaker Arrested In Drag in U.S. Prostitution Sting
Lee Tamahori, who directed the James Bond movie, "Die Another Day," has been arrested in a Hollywood prostitution sting while dressed in drag and after soliciting a police offer in offering to perform a homosexual act of prostitution.
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Wow. He directed the decent adventure flick "The Edge" as well as "Mullholland Falls" and "We Were Warriors" but since then he's done nothing but junk, plus some good Sopranos eps. Guess he figured no one would know who he was anyway.
I'm sure he's a member of the "Film Actor's Guild"
Was Eddie Murphy somewhere in the neigborhood?
Bad timing. Dressed up in drag as a woman, maybe he should have chosen to "dye another day".
Yeah, as to his directing an episode of THE SOPRANOS. The good side of this is that the hasn't directed any more of them! Looks like he was a bit of a trial run with that Series, thank Heavens.
MULHOLLAND FALLS was, when you think about it, a besmirching of male (and even female) honor...think it over.
I don't even begin to get why he was in drag. He solicited a male for oral sex on the street. I'm thinking most males parked in cars on a street in Hollywood (where the male was, an undercover cop) understand anyone making that offer is likely to be another male.
Plummeting to new lows. Sure makes me want to avoid ever watching a movie the slime directs.
Yeah, no kidding!
~;-]
Typo, previous: character Richie Aprile, not "Aprillo."
Tennis pro Richard Raskin had a sex change operation to become female Rene Richards. Then, once he was a woman--- became a lesbian.
What are these people thinking?
Ha, I have.not.even.a.clue.
Top Five Explanations for Tamahori's behaviour:
5. Lost bet on Steelers - Broncos championship game.
4. All of his regular clothes were in the laundry.
3. The cops just set him up because he wouldn't sign an autograph.
2. Michael Jackson is his role model.
1. Testing new "reality show" concept.
Hey, maybe he just ~~needed a ride home~~.
Typical of these people. What are they thinking? They aren't, well not with rational thought anyway. Their thinking is what is flawed. They are mentally ill, and the media, doctors, psychiatrists, even government, are feeding into it, for profit. None should be encouraging mentally ill people to live in a fantasy world.
When people run from reality, it chases you every second. You cannot escape it, but these wacko's are encouraged to keep running.
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