Oliver Stone

William Oliver Stone (born September 15, 1946 in New York City) known simply as Oliver Stone is an Academy Award-winning American film director.

Other Work

In 1993, Stone produced a mini series for ABC Television called Wild Palms. At one point, Stone appears on a television in the show discussing how the theories in his film JFK had been proven correct (the series took place in the future). Wild Palms has developed a moderate cult following in the years since it aired, and has recently been released on DVD.

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1993 - Mini series - ABC Television - Wild Palms

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In 1997, Stone published "A Child's Night Dream", a largely autobiographical novel first written in 1966-1967. After several unsuccessful attempts to get the work published, he "threw several sections of the manuscript into the East River one cold night, and, as if surgically removing the memory of the book from my mind, volunteered for the Vietnam of 1967." Eventually, he dug out the remaining pages, rewrote the manuscript, and published it. The book is an almost stream of consciousness telling of his experiences as a child, in college, and in Vietnam.

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1997 - A Child's Night Dream - 1966 - 1967 - Stream of consciousness

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In 2003, Stone made two documentary films. - Persona Non Grata, about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, and Comandante, about Cuban president Fidel Castro. In 2004, he made a second documentary on Castro, titled Looking for Fidel. Stone has called himself a friend and an admirer of Fidel Castro.

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2003 - Documentary - Persona Non Grata - Israeli-Palestinian conflict - Comandante - Fidel Castro - 2004 - Looking for Fidel

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