Sunday, May 29, 2005

Oliver Stone, Give Us Your Car Keys and Camera

(Reuters) - Academy Award-winning filmmaker Oliver Stone was arrested on drunken driving and drug charges at a police checkpoint in Beverly Hills, California, authorities said on Saturday.

Stone, who won best director Oscars for "Platoon" and "Born on the Fourth of July," was released on Saturday morning after posting $15,000 bond, said Sgt. John Edmundson, a spokesman for the Beverly Hills police department.

Police arrested Stone, 58, on Friday night at a checkpoint on Sunset Boulevard near the border of Beverly Hills and West Hollywood, he said. Stone, driving a Mercedes, was one of nine arrests at the checkpoint set up as part of a statewide crackdown on drunken driving during the Memorial Day weekend.

Police would not release details of an intoxication test on Stone or the type of drugs in his possession.

A local court ordered Stone into a rehabilitation program after a 1999 arrest on driving while intoxicated and drug possession charges.

This explains much about Oliver, a member of the hollywood Fidel Castro fan club and paranoid purveyor of conspiracy theories.

This guy once said about Castro, "We should look to him as one of the earth's wisest people, one of the people we should consult."

These spoiled, rebellious hollywood seniors just won't sober up or grow up for that matter.



2 comments:

loboinok said...

What a loser!

TheBitterAmerican said...

Kinda explains some of his movie choices, huh?