Filmmaker Oliver Stone arrested on drug, alcohol charges

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http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?storyID=8633775&type=entertainmentNews

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Filmmaker Oliver Stone arrested on drug, alcohol charges
Sat May 28, 2005 03:46 PM ET


SAN FRANCISCO (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

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1. Maybe this is your wakeup call.

Oliver Stone!

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2. Note to Stone; get Limbaugh's lawyer, and Bush's after his

little DUI affair. Those lawyers have been excellent in keeping their clients out of jail thus far.

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3. Checkpoints are useful tools for controlling subject populations.

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4. WTF...this article was less than 30 minutes old..yet it's not LBN????

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8. ??

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5. Mom always said not to play ball in the house.

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6. Why am I not surprised?

And people wonder why I call him Oliver Stone(d).

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7. Wow, imagine a DWI roadcheck in Beverly Hills...

More action than an eyewash bottle at a tabasco swimming pool.