Maybe Josh Brolin is a method actor. Maybe he's so deep into character (he's starring in Oliver Stone's W as George W. Bush who, as we all know, used to have an alcohol problem) that he got carried away.

Who knows?

What we do know is that Brolin, Jeffrey Wright and  five other people involved with the production were arrested night at the Stray Cat Bar in Shreveport, La. Wright, who has played Martin Luther King and Jean-Michel Basquiat in previous movies, portrays Colin Powell in the film.

Details are sketchy, but the Shreveport Times reports that police were called to deal with a rowdy patron. "As more officers arrived," the paper says, "several other patrons at the bar, including Brolin and fellow actor Jeffrey Wright, tried to impede the officers."

In all, 10 police offers were involved. Brolin, et al., were charged with misdemeanors.

A Shreveport TV station, KSLA, reports that bartenders called police after Brolin, Wright and several movie crew members refused to leave:


The photo to the right is Brolin's mug shot. Strange, but something about his expression actually reminds me of Shrub, even with the shaved head. (I wonder what that's about.) I never saw a resemblance before.

I picked this item up from Jeffrey Wells, who says that there was no bar fight, but that is exactly what the Shreveport paper and CNN call it though few details are given.

In the mug shots below, Felland has a bruise on his head.