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	Oliver Stone - MSN Encarta
		Oliver Stone, born in 1946, American director and screenwriter, whose motion pictures examine various aspects of American society.
		In 1978 Stone won an Academy Award for best screenplay for Midnight Express (1978), a film based on the true story of a young American arrested and imprisoned in Turkey for attempting to smuggle hashish out of the country.
		Stone’s $150-million historical epic Alexander (2004), about the life of Alexander the Great, was attacked by critics and was a conspicuous box-office failure.
	encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761579664/Stone_Oliver.html (450 words)

	AMCTV.com BIOGRAPHY - Oliver Stone (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Oliver Stone is one of those handful of directors who are as famous as their films.
		Stone had tried to make the film for more than a decade, and when it was finally released it was a resounding critical and commercial success, earning four Oscars®, including awards for Best Picture and Best Director.
		Stone's third film in his "Vietnam trilogy" uncharacteristically focused on a female character; Heaven and Earth (1993) is the real-life story of Le Ly Hayslip's odyssey from Southeast Asia to the U.S. Stone courted controversy again with his next film, the dark "comedy" Natural Born Killers (1994).
	www.amctv.com /person/detail?CID=17220-1-EST (540 words)

	Oliver Stone
		Given Stone's penchant for politics, it is not surprising that he is one of America's most controversial directors.
		As a child, Stone was raised by a nanny because his mother frequently took vacations to France.
		The film won Stone his first Best Director Oscar, as well as the Best Picture award, and it redefined the way in which the war was portrayed on film.
	www.tribute.ca /bio.asp?id=2588 (891 words)

	FilmMaker Director Oliver Stone Biography
		Oliver Stone is one of a handful of true artists left in modern cinema who will almost always place a greater importance on the craft rather than economic considerations.
		Stone's arrival was approximately the same time that the first ground infantry troops and marines arrived, and Stone recalls in a Time magazine interview that many of the troops would walk around firing off their guns for no apparent reason.
		Stone was also the recipient of various awards during the war, including one for extraordinary acts of courage under fire.
	www.filmmakers.com /artists/oliverstone/biography (1184 words)

	The religion of director Oliver Stone
		Stone now seems to have rediscovered something he long sensed, an exteriorization of an inner state that has existed within him since he was a child.
		Oliver Stone's path toward greater spirituality seems to have begun when he was a soldier fighting in the Vietnam War (he had volunteered for duty).
		Oliver Stone's experiences with his parents and sexuality had a strong affect on him, and made it difficult for him to relate to women as peers.
	www.adherents.com /people/ps/Oliver_Stone.html (10635 words)

	Oliver Stone: A Bibliography of Materials in the UC Berkeley Libraries
		Oliver Stone's America is an intriguing one-on-one with the director behind the movies, an insightful interview augmented with clips and photos from his films and personal life.
		Oliver Stone challenges all sense of credibility with his new motion picture 'JFK.' His conspiracy theory of John F. Kennedy's assassination is blurred by the homage he pays to Jim Garrison and his relentless investigation of Clay Shaw based on his 'links' to anyone and everyone.
		Oliver Stone's 1986 film Platoon is based on the Shakespeare's play Henraid and Henry the Fourth, Part I, which comments on the America's class politics, on the civic responsibilities of America's privileged, and on civil strife, imperialism, and military honor.
	www.lib.berkeley.edu /MRC/stone.html (14321 words)

	Oliver Stone
		His parents divorced when he was in high school, and only then did Stone learn of his father's many extramarital affairs with the wives of several family friends, as well as that, his father told him, the family fortune was depleted.
		Platoon was the first of a trilogy of Stone's films telling the story of America's war in Vietnam from three perspectives: the troops (Platoon), the protesters (Born on the Fourth of July), and the Vietnamese (Heaven & Earth).
		Stone's next major work was Natural Born Killers, a disquieting movie about serial killers, inspired by the life of Charles Starkweather.
	www.nndb.com /people/545/000022479 (785 words)

	FrontPage magazine.com :: Oliver Stone's Cuban Lovefest by Myles Kantor (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Stone is smitten with Castro — “one of the Earth’s wisest people,” he said last February [3] — and it begets obscene indulgences.
		Stone asks if they are treated well in prison, and they all say yes.
		Stone further equivocated, saying the Thought Police were on the loose in America.
	www.frontpagemag.com /Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=13216 (2076 words)

	Hollywood Unmasked - Oliver Stone
		Stone had sent the original copy of his first Doors screenplay to then living Jim Morrison some twenty years prior, because he claimed it's inspiration had come from The Doors lyrics.
		Just as a shaman is able to transfix the attention of his audience, Stone's films act as his instruments to leave the audience spellbound in the dim light, riveted for change.
		Stone's creativity has hexed family values and traditional morality by severing life and propagating murder in their place.
	www.goodfight.org /hwostone.html (1845 words)

	USATODAY.com - Oliver Stone enters plea in pot charge (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Director Oliver Stone was arrested at a drunk driving checkpoint in California on May 27, He pleaded no contest to marijuana possession.
		Stone's attorney entered the plea for his client Wednesday in Beverly Hills Superior Court, said Jane Robison, spokeswoman for the Los Angeles County district attorney's office.
		Stone, 58, was arrested at a drunk driving checkpoint on May 27.
	www.usatoday.com /life/people/2005-08-11-stone-plea_x.htm (254 words)

	Boycott - Oliver Stone
		Director Oliver Stone ripped President Bush while praising Cuban dictator Fidel Castro before the premiere of his movie "Looking for Fidel," at the 52nd San Sebastian Film Festival in Spain.
		A journalist asked Stone if the scenes of popular expressions for Castro in his movie were staged.
		Oliver Stone criticises Iraq war Stone has never shied from controversy Film director Oliver Stone has spoken out against the war in Iraq, describing it as a "generation-breaking" event.
	www.boycottliberalism.com /biographies/Stone.htm (786 words)

	CNN - Oliver Stone faces drug, drunk driving charges - July 16, 1999
		Stone has been free on $12,000 bail after his arrest last month for allegedly driving drunk.
		Stone is also facing a misdemeanor count of possessing small quantities of fenfluramine, phentermine, and Meprobamate.
		Stone began his film career as a screenwriter after studying film at New York University under Martin Scorsese.
	www.cnn.com /SHOWBIZ/Movies/9907/16/oliver.stone.01/index.html (273 words)

	FEATURES \| MAGAZINE \| VOLUME 26-1 MAY 2001
		Stone's films have created considerable controversy, from debate over his portrayal of the Kennedy assassination to a wrongful death action lawsuit brought against Stone and Warner Bros. for Natural Born Killers.
		The Oliver Stone they talk about is not somebody I recognize that much.
		The book, Oliver Stone's USA, is an interesting idea: a written debate between a filmmaker and his critics.
	www.dga.org /news/v26_1/feat_oliverstone.php3 (2020 words)

	Oliver Stone News
		U.S. director Oliver Stone defended the timing of his latest movie "World Trade Center" in Beijing on Wednesday, saying the "pain" of the 9/11 attacks needed to be expressed.
		Oliver Stone's grossly overrated "Platoon" and the hard-to-overrate "All Quiet on the Western Front"...
		Oliver Stone will receive the Director of the Year award at the annual Hollywood Film Festival and Hollywood Awards gala.
	www.topix.net /who/oliver-stone (806 words)

	CBC The Passionate Eye Sunday Showcase: Comandante, Oliver Stone's Comandante
		Over the three days, Stone films Castro working at his office, touring a medical school and a museum, and follows him through the streets where he mingles freely with Cuban citizens.
		Stone and Castro discuss pivotal moment in world history such as President Kennedy's assassination, the Bay of Pigs invasion and the Cuban missile crisis.
		The network asked Oliver Stone to return to Cuba and interview Castro again with recent events in mind.
	www.cbc.ca /passionateeyesunday/comandante/about.html (478 words)

	Movie Production - Great Movie Directors - Great Film Directors (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Inconsistent he maybe, but Stone continues to scratch away at boundaries while the likes of Scorsese or Coppola, are either clutching for the mainstream or dozing on their veranda somewhere in the Napa Valley.
		Stone is so public a persona, his stars tend to feel like second billing.
		His vision, sharpened by the frenetic lash of his edits and the full arsenal of camera tricks he uses to powerhouse his intrepid ideas, was born from his three tours of duty in Vietnam.
	www.nyfa.com /film/news_events/20great/16stone.htm (458 words)

	USATODAY.com - Oliver Stone takes a blast at Bush (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		SAN SEBASTIAN, Spain (AP) — Filmmaker Oliver Stone blasted President Bush Thursday, saying he has "set America back 10 years." Stone added that he is "ashamed for my country" over the war in Iraq and the U.S. policies in response to the attacks of Sept. 11.
		The film tells the true story of the survival and rescue of two policemen who were trapped in the rubble of the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001, after they went to help people escape.
		Stone rejected allegations that U.S. authorities may have known about the attacks in advance and said the real conspiracy came after.
	www.usatoday.com /life/people/2006-09-28-oliver-stone_x.htm?csp=34 (565 words)

	Oliver Stone - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		At the age of 14, Stone's parents sent Stone away to attend high school at The Hill School, an exclusive college-preparatory school in Pottstown, Pennsylvania.
		His parents divorced while he was away at The Hill School, and only then did Stone learn of his father's extramarital affairs with the wives of several family friends.
		Stone graduated from this boarding school in 1964, the same year as former JP Morgan and Co. CEO, Douglas A. Warner III.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Oliver_Stone (1415 words)

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		Stone's historical revisionism is evident in those films he has made that center on events of the 1960s and 1970s.
		Stone's third film in the series, a candid look at North Korea's Kim Jong Il, was still in its developmental stage as of early 2004.
		Stone has also accused the U.S. government of having purposely allowed Osama bin Laden to escape unharmed while pretending to be hot on his trail.
	www.discoverthenetwork.org /individualProfile.asp?indid=628 (576 words)

	Interview: Oliver Stone - cover page
		Stone has been nominated for 10 Academy Awards and has won 3 Oscars for writing Midnight Express and directing Born of the Fourth of July and Platoon.
		Stone served in Vietnam, was wounded twice, and received the Purple Heart and the Bronze Star.
		Oliver Stone Interview: Conversations with History; Institute of International Studies, UC Berkeley
	globetrotter.berkeley.edu /Stone/stone-con1.html (553 words)

	Directors: Oliver Stone
		Almost all Stone's films are about a naif entering a new, unexpected world that he doesn't understand, be it Bill Hayes in the Stone-scripted Midnight Express, or Stone's version of Richard Nixon, presented as a savvy politician who encounters a meta-level of manipulation that even he can't combat.
		The real source of Stone's flamboyant style may be found not in any natural inclinations, but rather in tutelage he received from these masters of the large visual statement and the courting of controversy.
		Stone's productions, such as Freeway, are not the cozy crowd pleasers Spielberg is prone to producing And in his producing mode, Stone has shown himself to be loyal to collaborators, such as James Woods.
	www.cinemonkey.com /reviews/oliverstone/oliverstone.html (1749 words)

	CNN.com - Director Oliver Stone arrested - May 28, 2005
		LOS ANGELES, California (CNN) -- Oscar-winning director Oliver Stone was released from jail Saturday after his arrest on alcohol and drug charges the night before in Beverly Hills, police said.
		Stone said nothing to reporters who were waiting outside the police department.
		A Vietnam veteran, Stone received Best Directing Oscars for "Platoon" (1986), which also won an Oscar for Best Picture, and for "Born on the Fourth of July" (1989), according to the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Web site.
	www.cnn.com /2005/SHOWBIZ/Movies/05/28/stone.arrest (258 words)

	American University Library - Oliver Stone
		It includes footage from some of their award-winning student films, clips from blockbuster hits, discussions of past tragedies and triumphs that shaped their work and their thoughts on the industry on general.
		Director Oliver Stone seamlessly blends archival film with acted sequences in his version of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, which alleges that there was a massive plot and cover-up surrounding JFK's death.
		Later his sentence is suddenly revised upwards to 30 years and, realizing he may never be released, he decides to try to escape.
	www.library.american.edu /subject/media/stone.html (937 words)

	Oliver Stone
		Ranging from 1981 to 1997, the fifteen conversations featured in Oliver Stone: Interviews reveal a man frustrated by what he sees as the hypocrisies of American politics, of conservatism, and of the Hollywood film industry.
		In the interviews, Stone comes off as a man as brash, outspoken, confident, and complicated as his movies.
		Though the subjects of Nixon, JFK, Born on the 4th of July, The Doors (1991), and Heaven and Earth are rooted in the turbulent 1960s, Stone as interviewee and filmmaker is firmly entrenched in the present.
	www.upress.state.ms.us /catalog/fall2000/oliver_stone.html (425 words)

	UGO.com Film/TV - Oliver Stone Interview - Alexander Super Feature
		Oliver Stone is one of Hollywood's maverick filmmakers, stirring controversy with the likes of JFK, Nixon and Natural Born Killers, wallowing in cinematic excess with U Turn and Any Given Sunday and exploring the dark side of human nature with Platoon, Wall Street and Talk Radio.
		OLIVER STONE: You could talk a half hour on it, but let's start with two exceptions.
		OLIVER: Well, here are the youngest people in the world, 26, who ever ran the world.
	www.ugo.com /channels/filmtv/features/alexander/oliver.asp (1177 words)

	William F. Buckley Jr. on Castro and Oliver Stone on National Review Online
		Castro had given three whole days to Oliver Stone, and that proved to be total immersion — Stone came away a devout apostle of Castro and Castroism.
		He spoke of his encounter: "We should look to [Castro] as one of the earth's wisest people, one of the people we should consult." Now, the conversion of Oliver Stone was probably not all that difficult.
		Stone is attracted to any person, statement, event, book, firework, or parade, that stimulates the depreciation of America and its institutions.
	www.nationalreview.com /buckley/buckley042203.asp (808 words)

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