Oliver Stone Faces Drug, DUI Investigation
May 28, 3:33 PM EST
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.
'Green Acres' Star Eddie Albert Dies
May 27, 4:25 PM EST
The Associated Press
LOS ANGELES -- Eddie Albert, the actor best known as the constantly
befuddled city slicker-turned-farmer in television's "Green Acres,"
has died. He was 99.
Albert, who appeared in movies and television for more than 50 years,
died of pneumonia Thursday at his home in the Pacific Palisades area,
in the presence of his longtime caregivers and son Edward, family
friend Dick Guttman said Friday.
Albert achieved his greatest fame on "Green Acres" as Oliver Douglas,
a New York lawyer who settles in a farm town with his glamorous wife,
played by Eva Gabor, and finds himself perplexed by the antics of a
host of rural residents, including a pig named Arnold Ziffel.
Albert was nominated for Academy Awards as supporting actor in "Roman
Holiday" (1953) and "The Heartbreak Kid" (1972).
The actor moved smoothly from the Broadway stage to movies to
television. Besides his 1965-1971 run in "Green Acres," he costarred
on TV with Robert Wagner in "Switch" from 1975 to 1978 and was a semi-
regular on "Falcon Crest" in 1988.
He was a tireless conservationist, crusading for endangered species,
healthful food, cleanup of Santa Monica Bay pollution and other
causes. He had remained healthy even in old age.
"Three days ago he was playing basketball in his wheelchair with his
granddaughter," Guttman said. "He stayed very vital."
