Oliver Stone Arrested on Drug, DUI Charges

Associated Press ^ | 28 May 05 | Not listed

[SkyPilot]

BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. - Oscar-winning director Oliver Stone was arrested for investigation of drug possession and driving while intoxicated, police said Saturday.

Stone, 58, was arrested Friday night at a police checkpoint on Sunset Boulevard after showing signs of alcohol intoxication, police Sgt. John Edmundson said.

A search of his Mercedes turned up drugs, Edmundson said. He did not specify what kind.

Stone was released Saturday morning after posting $15,000 bail.

A message left Saturday with Stone's agent David Styne was not immediately returned.

In 1999, the filmmaker pleaded guilty to drug possession and no contest to driving under the influence and was ordered into a rehabilitation program.

Stone's films include the recent "Alexander," "JFK" (1991) and "Natural Born Killers" (1994). He won Academy Awards for directing in 1989 for "Born on the Fourth of July" and in 1986 for "Platoon," which also won the Oscar for best picture. He lives in Los Angeles.

[bannie]

Dr. Hook song,

"I got stoned, and I missed it."

[1FASTGLOCK45]

He's an idiot, if he knows he's going to do drugs and going to party, why not rent a limo? If i had his $$ that's what i would do, obviously he's so dumb as a brick.

[RightWingAtheist]

I suppose I would also be drunk n'drugged too if I squandered all my talent on something like "Alexander"

[infowarrior]

I have a Ruger, and a Luger, and I only live 20 some miles from him, so I guess I am elected : )

Leave the guns... Take the cannoli...

the infowarrior

[international american]

Obiwon Cannoli's ??

[international american]

Yeah, no excrement : )

[international american]

"obviously he's so dumb as a brick."

Don't fergit arrogance!

[NotJustAnotherPrettyFace]

Go for it!

[NotJustAnotherPrettyFace]

forty hours picking up trash

What? They're going to make him pick up all his garbagy movies?!

[RIGHT IN LAS VEGAS]

gay boy drug charge

[endthematrix]

"[Stone's]childhood was extremely disturbed. His French mother abandoned the family a number of times to run off with different men, and personally initiated her son into sexuality when Oliver was a teenager. ("I raised him very freely," Mrs. Stone told the Washington Post.) His Yale-graduate Jewish stockbroker father, meanwhile, was an emotionally detached man hooked on Scotch and call girls, whose main counsel to his son on women was "Find ’em, f*** ’em, and forget ’em." When Stone was 16, his father hired him a prostitute."

"A new book on the making of his film Natural Born Killers reports that he [Stone] was high on mushrooms and romping with young women during production."

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[endthematrix]

Back in 1999, he was busted for DUI and poss of hash.

[endthematrix]

Sorry. FYI, I also heard in actor interviews that they partied on his yacht, with mushrooms.

[razorback-bert]

This was not the activist director's first run-in with the law. In 1999, he was also pulled over in Beverly Hills and hashish was found in his car.

Stone, who lives in nearby Santa Monica, pleaded guilty to drug possession and no contest to driving under the influence and was sent to a rehabilitation program.

[television is just wrong]

He just assumes he is better than everyone else, and would never get caught let alone arrested with anything. Halle Berry a while ago with her hit and run drunk accident, and a little while longer, she is awarded with an oscar. I don't think she deserved that either. It gives them the false feeling that they are exempt from any rules of the law.

[cgbg]

He did an interview with a female journalist a few years ago, and basically sexually harassed her during the interview. Rush read the transcript on his show, and it was shocking. Stone said to the woman: "Did you get my erection on camera?

As long as he didn't say it to a _male_ interviewer he is above average for the Hollywood set.

;-)

[1FASTGLOCK45]

Cool username!