Article: Oliver Stone, still angry after all these years

You know what to expect from an Oliver Stone film: Sixties ideology, grand sweep, bombast and a certain raw anger. When Eamonn O'Neill saw him lecture to students he got all that - and a Natural Born Killer attack on the American media.

"My father said, `Don't tell the truth . . . or you'll get into trouble.' That's what he said."

The man doing the talking is Oliver Stone. He pauses, looks up from the podium and smiles. Then, he says quietly, he didn't follow his father's advice. There is laughter and applause. Standing in front of two, maybe three thousand fresh-looking American students in a huge auditorium in Syracuse University last week, the film director spoke, completely unscripted, ...

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