Breaking News -- Director Gus Van Sant Arrested for Drunk Driving

Posted Dec 22nd 2006 10:05PM by James Rocchi
Filed under: Celebrities and Controversy

It's a time-worn holiday tale: Have a few drinks at an event, run into a police sobriety roadblock. On Thursday night, according to this report from CNN, that's pretty much what happened to Drugstore Cowboy and Elephant director Gus Van Sant. The director was pulled over in Portland -- his base of operations, as well as the shooting location for his upcoming Paranoid Park -- for having darkened headlights and failed an administered breathalyzer test, but further details are not known at this time. Cinematical's Matt Bradshaw has been following Park's pre-production; the details about Van Sant's arrest can all be found here.

Tags: DUI, Gus Van Sant, GusVanSant

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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

12-23-2006 @ 8:07AM

Philippe Ory said...

It ain't NEWS! Nobody cares! It happens to thousands of people everyday and it has nothing to with filmmaking!

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