Fiction? This Guy’s A Stranger To The Truth
So what’s Oliver Stone up to these days?
At a Syracuse University appearance this week, the controversial film director again apologized for showing Syracuse police clubbing students with night sticks during a 1970 anti-war demonstration in his “Born on the Fourth of July.”
Stone sent a letter of apology to city and police officials shortly after the movie’s release in 1990, admitting that police “did not, in fact, hit any students over the head.”
And at Yale, where he attended classes in the ‘60s, Stone hawked his new novel, “A Child’s Night Dream,” which revolves around a fictional character - named Oliver Stone - who abandons Yale, goes to Vietnam, joins the merchant marine and ends up in Mexico.
“It’s a novel,” Stone said. “It’s partly truth, partly fiction.”
Loose talk
Woody Allen, on his dietary preferences: “I will not eat oysters. I want my food dead - not sick, not wounded - dead.”
The celebration will be a party of five
Neve Campbell turns 24 today.
Sounds like Polanski might be able to stop roamin’
Filmmaker Roman Polanski, who fled the United States 20 years ago after pleading guilty to having sex with a 13-year-old girl, has reportedly worked out a deal that will allow him to return to Los Angeles and resume his Hollywood career without serving jail time. Polanski, now 63, was accused of luring the girl to Jack Nicholson’s home while the actor was away and plying her with champagne and Quaaludes.
He was only but one on the playing fields of Elon
North Carolina’s Elon College became “Tech University” for the day Wednesday as Spike Lee came to campus to shoot scenes for his next movie, “He Got Game.” Said Joel Gruver, one of some 200 students who showed up at dawn for the filming: “Obviously, my role is not that much of an important one, but we get to see how it all works. It’ll all be worth it when I get the Oscar for best extra in a feature film.”
Wisconsin? It’s a great place to make cheesy movies
Attempting to break a “bicoastal bias” when it comes to picking movie locations, Wisconsin officials hosted a bratwurst barbecue for 1,000 Hollywood types, hoping to lure some of them to America’s Dairyland. Said state film office director Stanley Solheim: “People are still going to Austria because of ‘The Sound of Music’ and to Montana looking for the scenery they saw in ‘A River Runs Through It.”’
Keep chowing down, and you won’t be a fox for long
Vivica A. Fox, used to starving herself to keep her figure in shape for film roles (“Independence Day,” “Booty Call” and “Batman and Robin”), loved working on “Soul Food.” Says Fox: “I could actually EAT. I didn’t have to be with the trainer five days a week or be satisfied with eating a piece of carrot.”
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