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...Unpredictable Hero Hooray for Johnny Depp! I read every word of your story about "Hollywood's most unusual star" [March 22]. In Platoon, which was shot in the Philippines, Depp played a small but moving role as a Vietnamese-speaking G.I. who perishes in a firefight. Many of us fortysomethings, who were yuppies during the Philippines' turbulent 1980s, grew up watching the young Depp. We admired him for being rebellious, idealistic and nonconformist yet totally committed to his craft. Even back then, Depp had something special. Raul H. Dado Vientiane, Laos...
Oscar-winning director Oliver Stone, 57, has roused passions and courted controversy in films ranging from Platoon to JFK. After a five-year hiatus, he's back with another project causing a stir, Looking for Fidel, a documentary about the Cuban dictator about to debut on HBO. TIME's Jeffrey Ressner caught up with Stone at his editing room in Santa Monica, Calif...
That line gives a clue to the approach of director John Lee Hancock (The Rookie) and the platoon of writers: they want simultaneously to criticize and celebrate U.S. imperialism. The good intentions and lousy planning of the Alamo's defense make it seem like a 19th century dress rehearsal for Vietnam. A shot of American corpses dangling from a tree has an eerie resemblance to images this month of a bridge in Fallujah, Iraq. But the Alamo massacre is only Act II. Houston's quick victory at the subsequent Battle of San Jacinto seized Texas from Mexican control and allows...
...late, Mann can feel the difference in years. Whereas he was once the poster-boy for the platoon situation—both serving as DH and catcher, and forcing the elder Lentz to learn first base and the outfield to accommodate his emergence sophomore year—this year provides a self-admitted “different role...
...fact, when one thinks about it, everything’s been sort of leading up to this, hasn’t it? The injury in Alaska. The two years learning in a platoon environment. The flashes of offensive brilliance. Even the sheer pleasure derived from the art of catching. It’s all coming together now to set the stage...