Spike Jonze and Vice magazine founder Shane Smith were detained in Yemen while filming their search for al Qaeda for an MTV investigative series that premieres Dec. 6 — “The Vice Guide to Everything.” They avoided jail and retrieved their footage with an $8,000 political bribe. While documenting dangerous and absurd tales from Mexico to Libya for a series that’s been dubbed ” ’60 Minutes’ meets ‘Jackass,’ ” the crew peppered themselves with $100 bills in case of an arrest. “Most of these places you can bribe your way out of for a couple hundred bucks,” a still bullish Smith told us.
Spike Jonze and Vice founder Shane Smith detained in Yemen while filming MTV series
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PageSix.com Staff
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Nov. 20, 2010, 5:00 a.m. ET