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Article: Bush is depicted as foul-mouthed frat boy in new Oliver Stone movie
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- The Independent (London, England)
- Article date:
- April 9, 2008
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Oliver Stone's new film,W, portrays George Bush as a foul-
mouthed, dried-out drunk with a baseball obsession and a difficult
relationship with his father.
Filming is expected to begin any day in Louisiana. The movie
should be in cinemas before Mr Bush leaves office next January.
Stone says the film won't be an anti-Bush polemic. Rather, as he
told Daily Variety, it will be "a fair, true portrait of the man
that asks the question: how did Bush go from being an alcoholic bum
to the most powerful figure in the world?"
An early script describes Mr Bush as a party animal living in the
shadow of his esteemed father before he uses religion to turn his
life around. He finds a new purpose in life - ...