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...make a break from Hollywood. Richard Boyle, the guy a lot of the film is based on, was a friend. On the way to the airport one day, he gave me some notes. "Here, you might like this," he said. I read the sketches of his trips to El Salvador, and my mind clicked. "This is it," I said. "I am going to make Salvador. It's cheap. It's close...
...feature as writer-director (after Seizure and, in 1981, The Hand) laced his usual hip rants on pharmacology with a smart, anguished newsphoto montage of one more Third World nation torn by civil war and shadowed by the looming hulk of American weaponry. This was the gallivanting political melodrama Salvador. Stone dedicated the film to his recently deceased father. "I remember one conversation we had right before he died. He said, 'You'll do all right. There'll always be a demand for great stories and great storytellers.' So finally he forgave me for going into the film business...
...Salvador, Stone was learning to wind the cinematic mechanism until it coiled with productive tension, both on the screen and on the set. "Working with Stone was like being caught in a Cuisinart with a madman," James Woods opines. "And he felt the same about me. It was two Tasmanian devils wrestling under a blanket. But he's a sharp director. He starts with a great idea, delegates authority well, scraps like a street fighter, then takes the best of what comes out of the fracas." Says Dale Dye, the Marine captain who hazed Platoon's actors to firm them...
...Christmas in Marbella, a gaggle of lesser European royalty partook of "A.K.'s" hospitality. Among them was Count Jaime de Mora y Aragon, the brother of the Queen of Belgium, a rakish fellow with a monocle and a waxed mustache who comes across as a blue-blooded Salvador Dali...
Rumors flew last month that unnamed right-wing politicians in San Salvador were hard at work trying to persuade senior military officers to overthrow President Jose Napoleon Duarte. The flurry of speculation quickly fizzled out when Armed Forces Chief of Staff General Adolfo Blandon publicly reiterated his support for the President...