Oliver Stone

Oliver Stone Slams Obama, Says Greed Is Legal In 'Wall Street 2'

AP | BRETT ZONGKER | Posted 12.03.2009 | Entertainment


WASHINGTON — Hollywood filmmaker Oliver Stone is again taking on the financial world in a sequel to 1987's successful "Wall Street," but this ti...

Wall Street, Cinema Style

Cathy Whitlock | Posted 10.19.2009 | Entertainment


Cathy Whitlock

Twenty years later, Wall Street's Gordon Gekko returns to public life from jail -- will he atone for his sins and live a life of redemption and volunteer work?

Irresistible Glam

Yvette Kantrow | Posted 11.15.2009 | Media


Yvette Kantrow

Our obsession with deal leaks and scoops subsided along with the boom that fueled it, resulting in a column that trained its occasionally gimlet eye on everything from basic business reporting to Analystgate.

Oliver Stone, Michael Douglas On This Week's Return To 'Wall Street'

nytimes.com | TIM ARANGO | Posted 11.08.2009 | Entertainment


Last Tuesday afternoon, a black Cadillac Escalade arrived at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York in Lower Manhattan, built in the 1920s to resemble t...

Hugo Chavez Pictures In Venice With Oliver Stone (PHOTOS)

Posted 10.23.2009 | Entertainment


Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez made his Venice red carpet debut on Labor Day when he joined director Oliver Stone for the premiere of 'South Of The ...

Oliver Stone's Hugo Chavez Film Makes Venice Premiere

AP | COLLEEN BARRY | Posted 10.23.2009 | Entertainment


VENICE, Italy — Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez received a movie star welcome Monday at the Venice Film Festival, where he walked the red carpe...

Oliver Stone To Produce Documentary Series

AP | Posted 09.19.2009 | Entertainment


NEW YORK — Showtime says filmmaker Oliver Stone is producing a 10-part documentary series on what he calls the secret history of America. The s...

"The Best of Times" for Dream Theater's Mike Portnoy

Jon Chattman | Posted 09.04.2009 | Entertainment


Jon Chattman

"...the core of our fans have always been a combination of musicians, metal fans and prog fans. We've never been the "flavor of the month".

The Spurn Of The Native

Michelle Schweiger Schecter | Posted 08.27.2009 | Politics


Michelle Schweiger Schecter

Did you catch Liz Cheney on Larry live?/Allowing the birthers' claims to thrive/Carville, quite exasperated on Mr. King/Telling us this is, indeed, a very "nutty thing".

JFK and the Unspeakable

Oliver Stone | Posted 08.23.2009 | Politics


Oliver Stone

An extraordinary new book offers the best account I have read of the JFK tragedy and its significance.

Wall Street 2: Javier Bardem Turns Down Role

forbes.com | Brian Wingfield | Posted 08.23.2009 | Business


LONDON -- He was the stony-faced psychotic killer in No Country for Old Men, wielding a cattle gun as he took out his victims one by one. So it was on...

Rethinking Wall Street: Why Bernie Madoff Makes Gordon Gekko Look Like Zac Efron

Jonathan Kim | Posted 08.01.2009 | Entertainment


Jonathan Kim

But as the sordid details of the economic meltdown are revealed, it's clear that Gordon Gekko has nothing on the real corporate supervillains walking freely among us today.

For Independence Day, Ten Movies That Scream America

John Farr | Posted 07.31.2009 | Entertainment


John Farr

As we head into Independence Day weekend, for those who'd like to move beyond the evergreen "Yankee Doodle Dandy", I want to suggest some classic titles that evoke our country's unique character.

Wall Street 2: Hedge Fund Is Villain, Shia LaBeouf To Join Michael Douglas

deadlinehollywooddaily.com | Posted 07.03.2009 | Entertainment


I'm told that screenwriter Allan Loeb (21, Things We Lost In The Fire) will hand in his second draft of the long-awaited Wall Street 2 to 20th Century...

Wall Street 2: Minyanville's Script

minyanville.com | Posted 07.02.2009 | Business


Minyanville writes its own version of the anticipated sequel. ...

"Wall Street" Sequel: Michael Douglas, Oliver Stone On Board

AP | Posted 05.29.2009 | Entertainment


LOS ANGELES — Michael Douglas and Oliver Stone are back together again with a sequel to their 1987 hit "Wall Street." Douglas is reprising his ...

Chatting with Oliver Stone

Katherine Ryder | Posted 03.20.2009 | Entertainment


Katherine Ryder

As W. is released on DVD and Bush is in Crawford, Texas, still regularly excoriated in the press for his role in the financial meltdown, Stone spoke to me about the film, and his empathy for its subject.

Oliver Stone Meets Bolivia's President Morales For Talk, Coca

AP | Posted 02.14.2009 | Entertainment


LA PAZ, Bolivia — U.S. filmmaker Oliver Stone kicked a soccer ball and chewed coca leaves with Bolivia's leftist president Tuesday during an int...

Oliver Stone Slams Bush:"A Giant Ego" And "Boneheaded Arrogance"

AP | BARBARA SURK | Posted 01.11.2009 | Entertainment


DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — Filmmaker Oliver Stone slammed President George W. Bush at the Mideast premiere of his movie "W." in Dubai, saying...

The Camel Club Meets Again -- An Audio Book Review

Tom Alderman | Posted 01.04.2009 | Entertainment


Tom Alderman

The Camel Club needs invigoration, or a new agenda, or to declare victory and go home.

Jim Brown on Barack Obama, Racism, Muhammad Ali, Hugh Hefner, Football, and Acting

Graham Bensinger | Posted 12.25.2008 | Politics


Graham Bensinger

The day after the presidential election, I sat down with Jim Brown. Brown discussed a wide range of topics, including what electing the first African American president means to him.

MacBush

Norman MacAfee | Posted 12.05.2008 | Entertainment


Norman MacAfee

Stone assembled a game cast to play the characters who've wrought destruction upon the world in these past seven years. Except for two or three, they are bland and vague versions of the real.

Election Day: Reflecting Back Before Moving Ahead

Linda Kulman | Posted 12.05.2008 | Politics


Linda Kulman

Why is this my W. moment when I've tried so hard to ignore all things Bush over the previous seven and five-sixths years of his presidency?

Oliver Stone's "Obama"

Dave Winer | Posted 12.01.2008 | Politics


Dave Winer

At the end of Oliver Stone's biopic, just before Nixon resigns in disgrace, he delivers a powerful line. Standing in front of the White House portrai...

Sympathy for "W", Not For Voters

Mike Papantonio | Posted 11.29.2008 | Politics


Mike Papantonio

Stone's movie is kind to "W" in that it makes a case that George spent most of his life swimming in water too deep for his swimming skills. The tragedy is that voters never recognized that.