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Article: Oliver Stone: the director's surprising new biopic of America's outgoing president provides a searing look into the psyches of not one but two polarizing, complicated men: George W. Bush and Oliver Stone.(FILM)(Interview)
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- October 1, 2008
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For many years, Oliver Stone tried to make a movie of The Fountainhead, Ayn Rand's epic novel about the arrogant ur-capitalist and architect Howard Roark. Stone's version would have reinvented Roark as a visionary designer of public buildings--maybe a guy like Fidel Castro or Hugo Chavez, two gifted egoists Stone has been known to pop a Fresca with. That's interesting company for a born Republican and decorated Vietnam volunteer, though maybe not for the man who gave us Wall Street (1987) and Gordon Gekko, or who wrote Brian De Palma's Scarface (1983).
Stone's new film, W., is a biopic of George W. Bush that the director has ...