Word: stones
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Whether that Stone is dead and gone or simply sleep-deprived into silence was unclear, as he launched into an unexpected and extremely personal discussion of chronic problems of his self-confidence as filmmaker and individual. As members of the heavily pierced and bespectacled audience exchanged puzzled glances, Stone chronicled its gradual deterioration at the hands of bloodthirsty critics. Stone even suggested that his constant inability to satisfy his parents as a child led to feelings of personal and professional inadequacy...
...still don't really know who Oliver Stone is," he reflected...
...Oliver Stone is not a naive man. A veteran spin doctor and veritable walking quote farm, Stone never projects an image without meaning to. So why this show of insecurity? Why the infirm stance, the frequent sighs? Has a brutally public life finally broken the director the Los Angeles Times once branded "The Most Dangerous Man in America...
...chance. Perhaps Stone was affecting humbleness to make the planned success of U-Turn more headline-friendly ("Underdog Director Strikes Back!"). Maybe he thinks that presenting conflicting versions of himself to different audiences will further his mystique. Or maybe he was just really, really tired...
Whatever the case, after sufficiently confusing the audience, Stone abruptly redirected the talk to the safer, more boring waters of his film school days at NYU. Twenty minutes of material straight out of The Pocket Guide to Film School Anecdotes ("Martin Scorsese told me, 'Make a film from inside yourself, about yourself."') left those in attendance pining for more of Stone's wacky self-analysis...