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Article: OLIVER STONE'S MOTHER LODE; The Director Mines His Childhood And Finds Some Dark Places Indeed
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- The Washington Post
- Article date:
- September 11, 1997
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Oliver Stone is reliving his adolescence. More likely, he has
never stopped living it.
"My mom kind of went off and did her thing with this guy in
Europe, a young and handsome man, because, frankly, she was very
much in love with him. And my father was very tough and stoic,
business as usual. `Your mother has busted me and I got no money,
I'm $100,000 in debt, blah blah blah.' It was all a shock. . . .
And nobody talked in those days. Nobody said what was really going
on."
A gap-toothed smile nervously creases his tired, frat-boy
face. His almond eyes ("like a Mongol nomad's," he claims) move