What a Goonie!
Boozed-up actor Josh Brolin was charged with public intoxication on New Year’s Day, California cops said yesterday.
One of the stars of the upcoming flick “Gangster Squad” was briefly held on a misdemeanor public-intoxication charge after he was found blitzed on a Santa Monica sidewalk, according to Santa Monica police.
“This was a booking only to hold him until he sobered up,” police spokesman Richard Lewis told NBC.
A source told gossip Web site TMZ the A-lister was partying with pals and had “too much fun.”
He paid a $250 fine and won’t have to go to court, according to Britain’s Daily Mail.
It’s the latest trouble for “Gangster Squad,” which after the Aurora, Colo., movie-theater massacre redid a scene in which gangsters fire guns into a crowded cinema.
Producers also pushed back the opening to this coming Friday, making it ineligible for the 2012 Academy Awards.
Brolin plays a sergeant in an elite LAPD squad that fights mobsters.
Brolin was also busted in a 2008 bar incident in Shreveport, La., along with crew members of the movie “W,” in which he played former President George W. Bush. That charge against Brolin – interfering with police officers after a disturbance involving a crew member – was later dropped.