In what could be the most hilarious slip-up in the history of Homeland Security (next to multitudes of Bushisms, of course), film and television director Mike Figgis was held at the Los Angeles International Airport for more than five hours after he told immigration officers, “I'm here to shoot a pilot.”
What he meant, of course, was a television pilot, not an airplane pilot. It's debatable who gets the King Numnut crown here though: Figgis, who works in Hollywood and can't possibly be expected to think up his own synonym for “first episode of a potential TV series” or the official it took five hours to finally realize this was the director of Leaving Las Vegas and to him the term “shooting a pilot” is as harmless (and simple!)
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