SHREVEPORT, Louisiana, July 13, 2008
"Bush," "Colin Powell" Nabbed In Bar Fight
Actors And Crew On Oliver Stone Film About President Bush Arrested After Brawl In La. Club
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Josh Brolin and Jeffrey Wright, cast members in the Oliver Stone film "W," were arrested along with five crew members in a bar fight in Shreveport, La. (KSLA)
Just hours after shooting was completed on Oliver Stone's latest film, a biopic of President George W. Bush, actors Josh Brolin and Jeffrey Wright, along with crew members, were arrested during a bar fight Saturday morning, police said.
Shreveport police Sgt. Willie Lewis said Brolin, Wright and five others were arrested just after 2 a.m. at a club called the Stray Cat bar.
CBS affiliate KSLA correspondent Ben Wolf reported that, according to police, one crew member was "acting out," and that club workers twice asked the group to leave, before calling police.
Police said Brolin, Lewis and four other crew members interfered with their making an arrest.
Witness Anthony Thompson told KSLA that he saw four squad cars and several bike cops, including a canine unit, converge on the scene.
Police could not say Saturday night whether Brolin or the others had been released.
KSLA reported that the arrests come the very day that Vanity fair magazine had arrived to do a cover story on the controversial film, "W," which tells the story of the early years of George W. Bush up through his invasion of Iraq.
"W" began filming in May in Shreveport. Brolin, who plays President Bush, starred in last year's Oscar-winning "No Country for Old Men," "American Gangster," "In the Valley of Elah" and "Grindhouse."
Wright, who plays former Secretary of State Colin Powell, appeared in the James Bond films "Casino Royale" and the upcoming "Quantum of Solace," as well as "Syriana" and "Ali." He won Tony and Golden Globe Awards for the stage and TV versions of "Angels in America."
The cast also includes Elizabeth Banks as first lady Laura Bush, Ellen Burstyn and James Cromwell as the elder Bushes, and Thandie Newton as Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice.
Stone has said the film won't be an anti-Bush polemic but, as he told Daily Variety, "a fair, true portrait of the man. How did Bush go from being an alcoholic bum to the most powerful figure in the world?"
A call to Brolin's publicist was not immediately returned Saturday night.
"W" is Stone's third presidential film, following "Nixon" and "JFK." He also directed the Vietnam sagas "Born on the Fourth of July" and "Platoon," which won four Oscars including best picture and director.
The Academy Award-winning director only began shopping his script for financing in January, but has quickly captured the interest of investors and Hollywood. He has said he is hoping to complete editing in time to release the film prior to the November election.
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See all 60 CommentsCBS, c''mon, would Edward R. cover this?
Posted by liberalameri at 04:54 PM : Jul 13, 2008
Maybe when there is PROOF that he has done something wrong?
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He lined up 3,000 of our troops to get killed over a lie. How much more proof do you need? Idiot.
I think it is you that is the idiot. I don''t like Bush and think he has done some stupid things but if he had done anything that he could be arrested for, then it would have been done by now. Unless you guys are just too lazy to get up off your a-s-ses and do something, that is.
He isn''t TOTALLY incompetent. He has managed to keep another 9/11 from happening. There hasn''t been any other terrorist attacks.
He isn''''t TOTALLY incompetent. He has managed to keep another 9/11 from happening. There hasn''''t been any other terrorist attacks.
Posted by erasmus81 at 06:49 PM : Jul 13, 2008
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Yea,you are right. NORAD only stood down that one day.
That didn''t count. It was probably one of your fellow Amercians that did that.
Yea whatever....you can always tell a boot-licking Bush-lover these days because they always start their posts now with "Oh, I don''t really like the guy, and I never voted for him"....before they start running to defend him.
I didn''t vote for him because I am not an American.
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They didn''t mention he was a "C" student.
And the answer to that question is : Cheny''s hand fit all the way to dubyas lips :D
Bet you believe in the tooth fairy as well.
Whatever....you''re still defending him which makes you a Bush-lover.
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Actually I am not defending him at all. I am just stating the facts. If he has done something illegal then why hasn''t he been thrown in jail? Why hasn''t he been impeached? They went after Clinton because of Monica, and it had absolutely nothing to do with him doing his job.
There hasn''t been another terrorist attack, so either he has horseshoes up his a-s-s or he has been doing something right.
I said "fellow American", I believe.
Posted by SgtRDS10-4 at 10:09 PM : Jul 13, 2008"
You forgot to mention the the REAL brawlers are Liberals, in a movie produced by a Liberal.
We have you Democrats/Liberals/Leftists figured out. Your hate spewing monologues are a result of your frustration at being beaten for the past eight years by President Bush AND the knowledge that your candidate does not have a snowball''s chance because he is un-qualified to be president. Your Democrat Congress is the WORST in history with it''s NINE percent approval rating and it''s record of doing NOTHING. They will not stand by their promises that fished your votes to install them into power.
Getting whipped on a regular basis by Conservatives AND your own party tends to sour a puss.
Posted by deacon20081 at 08:17 PM : Jul 13, 2008
I believe that if someone is doing something illegal, then they should be punished. I don''t see him being arrested or punished.
NOT news!
Amen.
put the impeachment issue on the table.
put the impeachment issue on the table.
Posted by bookout2 at 12:01 AM : Jul 14, 2008"
Key word here is WON''T.
She KNOWS there are no impeachable offensive and therefore will never let hearings start. She also knows that if she lets a ''witch hunt'' start, she''ll get voted out of office.
With what bush has done to our economy there is no need to attack us. We are being destroyed from within by our own leaders.
Our country isn''t run by justice but by the rich. Why do you think Jane Fobnda was never brought up on charges ? Hopefully the American public will prevail when bush is out of office and he will be tried for war crimes.
To get bush on charges now would start a civil war in this country, easier to get him after he leaves office.
It is only you that "knows" no crimes have been committed, the rest of the world does, and now Ms. Pelosi is finally waking up to the fact that if she keeps it "off the table" her career is finished when George''s is...
"John Nichols Thu Jul 10, 4:08 PM ET
The Nation -- As Ohio Congressman Dennis Kucinich moved a "privileged resolution" to force House to consider the question of whether President Bush should be impeached for lying to Congress and the American people about the reasons for invading and occupying Iraq, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi surprised almost everyone by suggesting that the Judiciary Committee might indeed take up the issue.
Pelosi, who famously declared impeachment to be "off the table" before the 2006 election, now suggests that hearings on the president''s high crimes and misdemeanors are a distinct possibility."
Posted by patriot12436
The civil war started when Reagan began the process that has decimated the middle class, and pushed wages down to third world levels.
The shooting part will start when the critical mass is reached, the demonstrations start, and someone, either the police, or a planted instigator, turns the demo violent.
Maybe Bush has not only been manipulating gas prices to pad his pockets and those of his cronies, but perhaps upon realizing that the actions by himself and Congress over the last several years were putting America''s economy into a tailspin, gas prices have been manipulated to make it more unaffordable for people to protest and/or revolt.
Hmmm....
Colin Powell has way too much integrity to put himself in a position to be arrested. I wish he had run for President.
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The civil war that is going to happen in this country is not going to involve the republicans and the democrats, it''s going to be a war between the rich and the poor. When you can''t find a job and lost your house, and can''t afford to buy food or gas...what else do you have to lose? Time to buy a gun and take to the streets.
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You may be right but we also have the possibility of a war between black and white. Americans against the govt. I have seen revolutions in hird world country when people cannot feed their families they will revolt. America is no different, when enough reach that level all hell will break lose.
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Posted by mike071067
Ignorant bigots who do what bigots do and gather the name of ALL into one group and call them these childish names. Lowest of the LOW.
U and W have flushed the lives of more than 4,0000 US soldiers down the toilet of Iraq and for what- to feed neocon companies like Halliburton billions and billions of no-bid contracts. And they''ve permanently wounded another US soldiers so Bush could make his daddy proud. Two Bushes, two useless wars against an adversary who never had a chance but who gave these thieves and the excrement they spout and u trumpet the excuse to waste trillions of dollars and thousands of US lives.
U holier than thou hypocrite need to have your brain washed out with chlorox if you had a brain.
Posted by baldwin2008
And YOU must have been very busy over the last 100 years getting to know every actor and finding out what their moral bearings were all about. You are ignorant and your commentary is a rant - your comments are worthless.
I sure hope school starts back up soon - having these children on the internet is sickening.
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