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Coming soon: The George W. Bush story, directed by Oliver Stone
Oliver Stone has never ducked controversy. In fact, he seeks it out. tackled the Kennedy assassination and later made a biopic about Richard Nixon. His next movie, due out later this year, is about the My Lai massacre.
Now Stone is set to turn his lens on George W. Bush. The Oscar-award winning director once said that the current president "makes Richard Nixon look like St. Augustine." But he insists his treatment will be fair. "It will contain surprises for Bush supporters and his detractors," Stone says.
Should Stone be taken at his word? And will you pay $10 to watch Stone's treatment of George W. Bush?
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I think George Bush would
Submitted on January 22nd, 2008 by FRTN500CEOI think George Bush would prefer Michael Bay to take on this project...I know I would.
Stone for brains
Submitted on January 21st, 2008 by Jim LakelyNice link from Ben on this topic. The blogger at RightWingNews gets it pretty much right on.
The real problem that Oliver Stone and other people in Hollywood have is that they've been catered to and lionized for so long that they actually believe that they're smarter, better, and more enlightened than the rest of America -- and they are -- when it comes to things like knowing where to place stage lighting or how to look super sad because the script says that their puppy just died.
However, when it comes to the political arena, their celebrity status doesn't make them any more credible on political issues than Joe the plumber, Mike the mechanic, or Tina the secretary and that's what really just kills them.
Yet they look down upon Joe, Mike and Tina as mindless rabble brainwashed by the Bush Junta.
I'm more concerned about Dana Stevens, the writer of the Slate piece, who cried four times while watching Stone's "World Trade Center" but was "unmoved" after watching "United 93."
Typical liberal reaction. The attacks were a tragedy that makes us cry, not a vicious attack, an act of war, that should make us angry -- and proud of the brave souls on Flight 93 who will go down in history as heroes.