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...will result," he said in a statement. Stone, 62, who won a Purple Heart for his own military service in Vietnam, is also working on a sequel to his 1987 movie "Wall Street" about greed and capitalism. His last film "W" about President...

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...to it -- was trendy again. Oliver Stone, a Vietnam veteran, released Platoon in December 1986, and Stanley Kubrick's Full Metal Jacket came seven months later, both to great critical and box-office acclaim. (Platoon won the Oscar for Best...

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...U.S. support for the war. Stone, a Vietnam veteran and multiple Oscar winner, has produced three previous movies on the Vietnam War, including Platoon, Born on the Fourth of July and Heaven and Earth. Stone was accompanied by producer...

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...outdo him, he wants to be stronger than him." Stone and Bush started their freshman years at Yale University together, but Stone said he didn't graduate with Bush because he went to Vietnam. "I met him years later," Stone said. During the...

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...instituted after the 9-11 terrorist attacks. Most recently, Stone, a Vietnam veteran, directed an antiwar TV ad sponsored by MoveOn.org and calling for Bush to bring the troops home. In any case, Stone's next big-screen venture,...

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...Channing Tatum; the film will likely hit in 2009. Variety reports that Stone will make his fourth Vietnam film from a script by Finnish scribe Mikko Alanne, to be backed by United Artists. Pinkville will follow the investigation into the...

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...produced and directed the film. Stone wanted to film the movie in Vietnam, but because relations between the United States and Vietnam had not yet been normalized, it was instead filmed in the Philippines. Born on the Fourth of July is...

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...of] Yale boy that's completely different from me," says Stone. "I had a thirst for the world. I wanted to go to Vietnam, I wanted to see the world. Africa. This guy went the other way. He stayed inside the entitlement, he operated very...

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...dismiss were it in a work of fiction. It also makes it tempting to wonder what might have happened had Bush rather than Stone rebelled against his father by becoming a soldier in Vietnam. Would it have tempered his war-mongering...

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