Posted on 05/28/2005 11:37:03 AM PDT by 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.
Wonder if you could get a confession out him via Koran flushing?
I'm suprised he hasn't been popped sooner. He's a notorious drug/alcohol type.
This really is good news. One less drunk on the streets during the Memorial Day Holidays.
Ol'Oliver MUST have been STONEd.
To satisfy Supreme Court guidelines, you have to post signs warning "Checkpoint Ahead" for 1/4 mile before the check, and you have to give the publc an "alternate route" somewhere between the signs and the check point.
He's such an arrogant pig. Didn't know pigs could be arrogant, did you? LOL!
Oliver Stone is a maggot-infested dope-smoking brain-rotted hippie-has-been? Who knew?
The guy is one of the biggest coke heads out there. A friend of mine worked on a movie with him and said half the time the idiot was in his trailer snorting up coke like a vacuum. This is why he probably goes to Cuba all the time and kisses Castros butt so he can get coke. I hope they throw the book at the jackass. That movie Scarface he wrote, that was his whole fantasy about having unlimited coke. Yeah Oliver, cocaine is sooo cool.
He was probably on crack. No wonder he made all those stupid movies. Many thanks to the police force.
He should be serving a ten year sentence for producing "Nixon".
Ollie...ya killin' me. You went out driving drunk...with drugs in your car...in Los Angeles...on Memorial Day weekend? Dude, you know the cops in So Cal are looking for drunk and stoned drivers on three-day weekends like Bill Clinton is looking for hottie interns anytime. You know better than that.
See, this is exactly why I question evolution. You'd think this kind of stupidity would breed out, and it doesn't.
Come on, Oliver Stone is one of the beautiful people. Laws don't apply to him.
The Driver to make it home safely, then cops on patrol to notice erratic driving. Check points are for Nazi's.
"Stone said to the woman,'did you get my erection on camera'"
The woman should have replied"Yes,Mr Stone,all two inches"!
He can spend his time in jail making up more 'history.'
This was just "research" for his new movie on the Clintoon White House.
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I wonder if he might have Alzheimer's:
Frontal Lobe: Irrational
The frontal lobe helps carry out purposeful behaviors and complex reasoning. When Alzheimer's strikes the frontal lobe, victims lose the ability to plan and initiate complicated activities like balancing a checkbook. That's why it becomes important to break processes into simple steps. This loss of processing skills makes reasoning with people who have Alzheimer's virtually impossible. People with Alzheimer's are not being stubborn; their brains just aren't healthy enough to carry out the complex processes that logic demands.
Frontal dysfunction (combined with amygdala problems) also leads to a loss of inhibition, which may cause behaviors such as undressing in public, swearing and making inappropriate statements.
http://www.pbs.org/theforgetting/symptoms/index.html#brain
BWAAA-HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!
Root for the checkpoints in this case.My wife and I came very close to going head on with a drunk last weekend.The idiot was so far left of center that I had to do a little offroading to avoid him.
Brilliant quotes by Oliver Stoned;
"If I were George Bush, I would shoot myself. I think he lives in fear of drinking again. There's nothing more dangerous for America than an ex-alcoholic President who tells you to believe in Jesus."
"The Cold War has been the most irritating thing to me personally. Throughout my life we've been in the grip of militarism and military budgets and a mindset that dictates a war on Communism, and that's a drain on the national energy. The real enemy is nationalism and patriotism."
"The Indians once told me that stones are the most revered and ancient of recording devices. And that perhaps I am here on this Earth to write of these mute histories - just another stone, an 'Oliver' stone."
someone familiar with El Lay, please fill me in: Sunset Blvd IS notorious street-hooker spot, is it not?
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