Director arrested on suspicion of drug possession, DUI

Beverly Hills, Calif. – Oscar-winning director Oliver Stone was arrested on suspicion of drug possession and driving while intoxicated, police said Saturday.

Stone, 58, was arrested Friday night at a police checkpoint on Sunset Boulevard after showing signs of alcohol intoxication, police Sgt. John Edmundson said.

A search of his Mercedes turned up drugs, Edmundson said. He did not specify what kind.

Stone was released Saturday morning after posting $15,000 bail.

A message left Saturday with Stone’s agent David Styne was not immediately returned.

In 1999, the filmmaker pleaded guilty to drug possession and no contest to driving under the influence and was ordered into a rehabilitation program.

Netscape CEO pledges $5M to expand D-Day museum

New Orleans – Former Netscape CEO James Barksdale has donated $5 million to help expand the National D-Day Museum.

The planned $282 million expansion would quadruple the museum’s size over five years by adding new galleries and “virtual reality” exhibits to cover all theaters and services involved in World War II, officials said Friday.

The expansion also will add a World War II research center and a USO-style canteen and restaurant and will feature music of the war years to show the importance of entertainment during times of conflict.

Since its opening in June 2000, the 56th anniversary of the Normandy invasion, more than 1.5 million people have visited the museum.

Teen movie star’s father to serve time in prison

New York – Michael Lohan, the father of movie star Lindsay Lohan, was sentenced to prison Friday for a variety of crimes.

They include assaulting his brother-in-law with a shoe at a party, driving while intoxicated and aggravated driving without a license, a felony. Judge Claire Weinberg of Nassau County Court on Long Island, N.Y., sentenced Lohan to a 1 1/3 to 4 years in prison.

Lohan pleaded with Weinberg to send him instead to an alcohol treatment facility, which she refused to do.

But Weinberg did refuse to sign an order of protection on behalf of Lindsay Lohan, noting that the actress is now over 18 years old and would need to request such an order herself.

Nassau prosecutor Joy Watson said she would ask Lindsay Lohan about that.

Mislabeled Meat Loaf leads to $5M court decision

Cleveland – Sony Music was ordered to pay $5 million for not putting a Cleveland record company’s logo on Meat Loaf’s “Bat Out of Hell” album.

“Today, David beat Goliath,” said Cleveland record executive Steve Popovich, who hugged jurors after Friday’s decision.

A former talent scout who helped Epic Records land such superstars as Michael Jackson, Boston and The Charlie Daniels Band, Popovich created Cleveland International Records in 1977 and signed singer Marvin Lee Aday – stage name Meat Loaf.

He got Epic, a CBS Records subsidiary, to release “Bat Out of Hell,” which sold more than 30 million copies and was among the most popular records of all time.

Sony, which bought out CBS, paid $6.7 million to Popovich and others at the now-defunct Cleveland company in 1998 to settle a lawsuit over album royalties.

The settlement required Sony to place the Cleveland International Records logo on future Meat Loaf albums, but Sony delayed for more than a year. Sony claimed the omission was a mistake that it was later corrected.

Sony planned to appeal Friday’s decision.

MTV Movie Awards Part I

New York – Don’t you forget about “The Breakfast Club.”

At the 2005 MTV Movie Awards, to air June 9, the network plans to reunite the cast of the classic ’80s movie, the cable channel said Friday.

Though Emilio Estevez, who played Andrew Clark, isn’t confirmed, in attendance will be Molly Ringwald (Claire Standish), Ally Sheedy (Allison Reynolds), Anthony Michael Hall (Brian Johnson) and Judd Nelson (John Bender).

Yellowcard will perform the single “Don’t You Forget About Me” from the 1985 film, directed by John Hughes.

This year’s awards will be hosted by Jimmy Fallon.

MTV Movie Awards Part II

Los Angeles – Nine Inch Nails dropped out of the MTV Movie Awards after clashing with the network over an image of President Bush the band planned as a performance backdrop.

The Bush image was to accompany the song “The Hand That Feeds,” which obliquely criticizes the Iraq war. It includes the lyrics: “What if this whole crusade’s a charade / And behind it all there’s a price to be paid / For the blood on which we dine / Justified in the name of the holy and the divine.”

MTV said in a statement to its news division that the network was disappointed the industrial rock band would not perform but had been “uncomfortable with their performance being built around a partisan political statement.”

The Foo Fighters will perform in place of the Trent Reznor-led band at the awards.

Reznor said in a statement posted on the band’s Web site Thursday that the image of the president would have been unaltered and “straightforward.”

“Apparently, the image of our president is as offensive to MTV as it is to me,” he said.