Word: hayslip
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...consider this next movie like the other Vietnam ones, because they were all personal, those stories. There's me in Platoon. There's [Vietnam veteran] Ron Kovic in Born on the Fourth of July. And in Heaven & Earth, there's Le Ly Hayslip [the Vietnamese woman whose life is dramatized in the film, and who accompanied Stone on his trip to Danang]. All three were personal stories...
...Cannes this year, brings its gorgeous panorama of Chinese history and sexual hysterics to U.S. screens in early October. Oliver Stone has returned to Southeast Asia to film Heaven and Earth through a Vietnamese and feminine perspective, basing his movie on the memoirs of Le Ly Hayslip. And if you can't wait for the December opening of Heaven and Earth for a Vietnamese take on the ravages of war, scout around now for From Hollywood to Hanoi, a singeing documentary journey on film by Tiana Thi Tranh...
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