Wide World of Drugs- Controversial filmmaker Oliver Stone was busted for drunken driving and drug possession in Beverly Hills, officials said yesterday.
The Oscar-winning director was pulled over at 11:30 p.m. Friday at a police checkpoint on swanky Sunset Blvd. after he was spotted driving erratically, said Sgt. John Edmundson, a Beverly Hills police spokesman.
Stone then failed a Breathalyzer test, and a search of his Mercedes turned up drugs, Edmundson said, though he did not reveal the type of drugs, citing the need to test them in police labs.
Stone spent the night in jail and was released yesterday morning after posting a $15,000 bail. He was charged with driving while intoxicated and drug possession.
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.
Known as much for lefty politics as blockbuster films, Stone won the Best Director Oscars in 1986 and 1989 for “Platoon” and “Born on the Fourth of July,” respectively.
He also stirred up controversy with the ultra-violent “Natural Born Killers,” his conspiracy-theory-driven “JFK” and last fall’s “Alexander,” which depicted the world conqueror’s alleged homosexual relationships.