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By TChris, Section Crime in the News
Posted on Sat Jul 12, 2008 at 10:50:29 PM EST
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Actors Josh Brolin and Jeffrey Wright were arrested in Shreveport today, along with some members of the crew filming the Oliver Stone movie "W." Apparently they are suspected of participating in a bar fight. Perhaps they were just getting into the spirit of the president's partying days at Yale.

Russ Walker, a former Yale classmate and friend from Oklahoma City, recalls returning from a party with Bush one night in college when the inebriated Bush dropped to the ground and started rolling in the middle of the street. "He literally rolled back to the dorm," recalled Walker. "It was raucous, teenage stuff that he perhaps grew out of later rather than sooner."

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    Stanislavsky would be proud (5.00 / 3) (#1)
    by dws3665 on Sat Jul 12, 2008 at 10:54:01 PM EST
    Brolin is clearly using the method here.

    ..."grew out of"? (5.00 / 1) (#2)
    by scarshapedstar on Sat Jul 12, 2008 at 11:15:26 PM EST
    n/t

    Changed my mind (5.00 / 1) (#3)
    by scarshapedstar on Sat Jul 12, 2008 at 11:19:54 PM EST
    The American leader, who has been condemned throughout his presidency for failing to tackle climate change, ended a private meeting with the words: "Goodbye from the world's biggest polluter."

    He then punched the air while grinning widely, as the rest of those present including Gordon Brown and Nicolas Sarkozy looked on in shock.

    George Washington must be so proud.

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    The Ugly American. (5.00 / 2) (#4)
    by oldpro on Sat Jul 12, 2008 at 11:33:34 PM EST


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    He also apparently (5.00 / 1) (#7)
    by gyrfalcon on Sun Jul 13, 2008 at 08:56:40 AM EST
    cheerfully called Berlusconi "Amigo" several times.  Wonder if the G-8 folks had a little celebration after he left.  They must be incredibly relieved to see the back end of him going away.


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    I took 7 years.... (none / 0) (#6)
    by kdog on Sun Jul 13, 2008 at 08:40:52 AM EST
    but he's finally being honest...that's something right?

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    OM*G -- (none / 0) (#9)
    by snstara on Sun Jul 13, 2008 at 10:31:35 AM EST
    He did not!

    I'm sorry: for a moment, I forgot Wayne & Garth - er, Darth - ran America.  

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    Smoots (5.00 / 1) (#8)
    by gyrfalcon on Sun Jul 13, 2008 at 09:00:12 AM EST
    Not a new trick even then.  Way back in the '50s, an MIT student named Smoot was rolled over the Charles River bridge between campus and Boston, and marked off X number of Smoots on the bridge with paint.  The faded Smootage markers were repainted a few years ago.
    or not. (none / 0) (#10)
    by cpinva on Sun Jul 13, 2008 at 12:57:23 PM EST
    "It was raucous, teenage stuff that he perhaps grew out of later rather than sooner."

    bush suffers, at least publicly, from a case of severely arrested adolescence. and not in a good way. his is a life littered with a litany of failure, both personally and publicly. his past was prelude to our future.

    no sentient being, looking at pres. bush objectively, would ever have conceived of him being president, much less being re-elected.

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