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 Posted: Sat, 4th Feb 2006 18:29 Post subject: Tamahori arrested on sex charge |
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Was going to put this under World Headlines but thought this forum would have a deeper appreciation:
http://today.reuters.co.uk/news/newsArticle.aspx?type=entertainmentNews&storyID=2006-02-03T211619Z_01_N03243879_RTRUKOC_0_UK-CRIME-TAMAHORI.xml
"LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - New Zealand-born director Lee Tamahori, whose films include the James Bond hit "Die Another Day," has been arrested on a sex charge while wearing a woman's dress and a wig, officials said on Friday.
Tamahori, 55, was arrested January 8 in a police sting operation and charged with prostitution and loitering in a public place, City Attorney spokesman Frank Mateljan said.
The filmmaker is accused of offering to perform oral sex on an undercover police officer in exchange for money.
Tamahori had been set to be arraigned on Thursday, but the hearing was postponed until February 24. If convicted of the misdemeanour charges, he faces a maximum of six months in jail and a $1,000 (567 pounds) fine, Mateljan said.
Tamahori gained notice for directing the 1994 drama "Once Were Warriors," a film set in New Zealand about a family of native Maori whose lives have been plagued by alcohol, drugs and violence. Tamahori's father is Maori.
He followed that film with the 1950s crime drama "Mulholland Falls" and thriller "The Edge," starring Anthony Hopkins and Alec Baldwin.
Tamahori went on to make a splash with 2002's "Die Another Day," which starred Pierce Brosnan as secret agent 007 and Halle Berry as an American agent named Jinx. The movie raked in more than $430 million worldwide.
But his action film "xXx: State of the Union," starring rapper Ice Cube bombed at the box office last year.
Media reports said he was being represented by famed Los Angeles defence attorney Mark Geragos, who has worked for pop singer Michael Jackson and actress Winona Ryder.
Geragos and his associates were not immediately available to confirm those reports."
If guilty, for the sake of humor will assume he is, who was his pimp? My guess, Ice Cube. Mr. Cube was so pissed off XXX:State Of The Union box office performance he turned this little ho out...
Oh, got to love the defence attorney. Does Hollywood have his number on speed dial or something?
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| Posted: Sat, 4th Feb 2006 18:48 Post subject: |
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yeah saw this couple of days ago. always knew there was something off about this fruit...
i guess after those 2 stinkers die another day and the horrible xxx2, this was the next logical step in his career, heheheh
its a real pity because he could have had a decent career before those last 2 films...
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| Posted: Sun, 5th Feb 2006 16:06 Post subject: |
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i kinda liked xxx2, although i only watched it because a friend of mine had it, i wouldnt have even grabbed it myself because i thought it would be a stinker. Says something about the way it was hyped in the media i suppose
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| Posted: Sun, 5th Feb 2006 17:08 Post subject: |
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excuse me but a movie called xxx2 can't be good no matter what type of marketing is being used
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| Posted: Sun, 5th Feb 2006 17:15 Post subject: |
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| fruziowy wrote: | | excuse me but a movie called xxx2 can't be good no matter what type of marketing is being used |
says the guy with the pussy-licking avatar 
but you re right, the name alone was craptastic deluxe  |
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| Posted: Wed, 8th Feb 2006 00:27 Post subject: |
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Tamahori was just following the well documented tradition of polynesian drag queens. If he was hooking which isn't likely he would have just been working the 'beat' lookin for someone into his gig, it woulda been about the drag thing not money. Can't really see lapd vice understanding the difference esp if there's a headline in it.
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