Sean Penn, Michael Moore and Oliver Stone have paid tribute to Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez, who died after a long battle with cancer.
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/ 11 January 2010
In a filmmaking career spanning almost 40 years, Oliver Stone has turned political controversy in America into an art form.
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/ 17 October 2008
Oliver Burkeman speaks to Oliver Stone about his new movie, W about US president George W Bush.
So George Bush walked into a bar in Shreveport, Louisiana, with Colin Powell. It was Saturday morning and the two had spent a hard day on the job.
Venezuela President Hugo Chávez, in an interview with supermodel Naomi Campbell, predicted that the United States ”empire” is about to fall, called Jesus Christ history’s number one revolutionary and offered to pose topless. ”Why not? Touch my muscles!” the burly 53-year-old former paratrooper said.
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/ 8 December 2007
There are few obvious parallels between Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the religiously devout Iranian President, and Jim Morrison, the famously hedonistic lead singer of The Doors. But now the fact that the pair are to share a cinematic bond in the form of biopics directed by Oliver Stone is generating stern disapproval in Tehran.
One minute he’s denouncing United States President George Bush; the next he’s accepting an invitation for a biopic from Oliver Stone. No one can accuse Mahmoud Ahmadinejad of leading a dull life. In Washington on Tuesday, the Iranian President was fielding questions about his prospects in Hollywood.
Plans were announced recently for a biopic of the life of <i>Playboy</i>’s founder, Hugh Hefner, writes Dan Glaister in Los Angeles.