Oliver Stone
Three-time Oscar-winning American filmmaker Oliver Stone poses after receiving a life achievement award at the Subversive Film Festival in Zagreb on May 12, 2013.
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And what does Oliver Stone do – he makes out that Jim is some kind of drunk. Aw man, that got me mad.
Oliver Stone has assassinated Jim Morrison ... The film portrays Jim as a violent, drunken fool. That wasn't Jim.
You tell somebody a good story, that's more powerful than tons of data, charts and graphs and statistics ... And Oliver Stone's a good storyteller. He's biased and he's very deceptive, and I don't trust him at all. But the movie's great.More quotes »
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The Doors musical genius who made the organ safe for rock'n'roll
other end of the phone line was low and rasping – and trembling with anger. It was 2005 and Ray Manzarek was discussing Oliver Stone's controversial biopic of his band, The Doors – particularly its depiction of singer Jim Morrison as a bug-eyed hedonist, forever from Irish Independent Read more »
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Michael Douglas as Liberace: ‘I can’t believe how lucky I am’
Liberace died of AIDS-related pneumonia, Douglas starred in his most definitive role, as arch-financier Gordon Gecko in Oliver Stone’s Wall Street . Other roles – as the object of murderous lust from Glenn Close and Sharon Stone in the thrillers Fatal Attraction from Globe and Mail Read more »
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Wesley Morris on Cannes: Finally, an Honest-to-Goodness Masterpiece Reality TV: Bachlorette Season Preview ♦ David Jacoby and Juliet Litman's Weekly Podcast : Hollywood Archaeology: Wild Palms
Bruce Wagner (who adapted a serialized graphic novel Details with artist Julian Allen) and executive-produced by Oliver Stone, back when movie directors doing television was still a big deal. ABC was excited enough about the show to air it during sweeps week, from ESPN Read more »
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Hell's Corner
attack on the heart of power . . . In sight of the White House . . . At a place known as . . . HELL'S CORNER John Carr, aka Oliver Stone-once the most skilled assassin his country ever had-stands in Lafayette Park in front of the White House, perhaps for the from Redmond Branch Library Read more »
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Brad Pitt's World War Z Isn't Just 'Mayhem Porn'
Sting and Trudie Styler; Kevin Bacon; Jemima Kirke; one of the Olsen twins (I can never tell which I'm looking at); Oliver Stone; and Darren Aronofsky, in front of whom I humiliated myself at the post-party by mistaking him for screenwriter Damon Lindelof. from The Huffington Post Read more »
