Yes, if one asked the question;
Name the film director most likely to be caught in an LAPD
sting/entrapment dressed as a transexual cruising for a bit of rough
trade, Lee is not the person that immediately springs to mind.
The article (which I found rather sad reading) made me wonder two things:
Firstly, presumaby he has been successful enough to be able exercise
sexual predilections in
a more personal and safe place and, secondly, doesn'the LAPD have better
things to do fighting more life-threatening crime than setting up stings
like this.
Are the LAPD on some sort of bonus system for arrests in this area of
the law?
Were they tipped off that Lee did this and were specifically looking to
nab him for what is
a bit of a high profile arrest and thereby gain some extra press for
their efforts at fighting "crime"?
Will it hurt Lee's career? Did it hurt Hugh Grant's (although I don't
think he was in drag)?
Can we expect to see the signs go back up in Hollywood boarding house
windows NO PETS OR PICTURE PEOPLE?
Good Night and Good Luck!
Phil
Kirby McDaniel wrote:
HUSTLE AND FLOW!!!
HOLLYWOOD filmmaker arrested in drag in US prostitution sting
Feb 02 8:42 PM US/Eastern
Hollywood filmmaker Lee Tamahori, who directed the James Bond movie
"Die Another Day," has been arrested in a Hollywood prostitution
sting while dressed in drag.
Tamahori, 55, was arrested on January 8 when he allegedly sought
sex with an undercover policeman while clad in women's clothes,
according to a criminal complaint filed in the Los Angeles Superior
Court.
"Mr Tamahori was arrested for soliciting. I can confirm he was
dressed in women's clothing at the time of the arrest," Officer
Jason Lee of the Los Angeles Police Department said.
Prosecutors confirmed they had filed two misdemeanour charges
against the Hollywood filmmaker: agreeing to engage in an act of
prostitution and unlawfully loitering on Hollywood's Santa Monica
Boulevard.
"He was arrested after approaching an undercover officer who was
sitting in his car and offering to perform a sex act," Frank
Mateljan of the Los Angeles City Attorney's office.
"The defendant was dressed in drag, loitering on the sidewalk," the
spokesman said.
Tamahori also directed last year's action adventure "XXX: State of
the Union" with Samuel L. Jackson and Willem Dafoe and 2001's
"Along Came a Spider" with Morgan Freeman.
He is due to appear in court in Los Angeles on February 24 to be
arraigned on the two charges. He is free on 2,000 dollars bail,
according to the City Attorney's office.
Tamahori's lawyer, celebrity attorney Mark Geragos, did not
immediately return calls for comment on the arrest of the filmmaker.
He started out as a commercial artist and photographer in New
Zealand, before entering the film industry in the late 1970 as a
boom microphone operator, going on to become an assistant director.
Tamahori got his break in Hollywood directing an episode of the hit
television series "The Sopranos" in 2000 and went on do "Spider"
the following year, before making "Die Another Day" starring Piece
Brosnan and Oscar-winning Bond girl Halle Berry in 2002.
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