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...worked as an organizer for the National Welfare Rights Organization in Missouri, wanted to start a group that worked with an entire community, not just welfare recipients. The early version of ACORN helped people obtain clothing and furniture; it campaigned for schools to provide healthy, affordable lunches and promoted Vietnam Veterans' rights. Since then the organization has branched out into housing and workers' rights advocacy; it has helped hundreds of thousands of working-class and poor citizens obtain home loans, register to vote and fight for better wages. The Arkansas-based organization now has hundreds of affiliates in 41 states...
...fleeting presence in W., as is mother Barbara (Ellen Burstyn), and Neil, Marvin and Dorothy are virtual no-shows. The secret sibling is Stone himself, who, like Dubya, came from a wealthy family and entered Yale in 1964. He left after a year and wound up in Vietnam, where his destiny ambushed him. Perhaps the political biography Stone really should put on film is John McCain...
...moviegoers, hearing that Oliver Stone was directing a biopic of the still President of the U.S., the W. could have stood for a pleased or outraged What!? Stone made his rep, or his rap sheet, with ferocious retakes of recent American history: the Vietnam War in Platoon, Born on the Fourth of July and Heaven and Earth; the investigation of the John F. Kennedy assassination in JFK; and, in Nixon, the life of the only President to resign his office. All those subjects allowed for a certain ambiguity, but Stone - a dramatist first, dispassionate chronicler never - pushed political views that...
...wisdom - not the weakness - to stop short of Baghdad. Stone seems to admire him more than any other President he's depicted. (In JFK, Kennedy was a hallowed ghost figure.) His Bush Sr. might be a Lyndon Johnson who somehow got the country in and out of Vietnam with a win and few U.S. casualties. This 41 - this war hero, this fearless leader - could never have been impersonated on Saturday Night Live by Dana Carvey...
...healing.” “Ajax in Iraq” incorporates many important themes regarding war and society, and each student actor has a different hope for what the audience will take away. “For me, one of the most potent things is the Vietnam veteran, which [Ampuero] plays, who’s homeless in D.C. at the war memorial,” says Emily Alpren, who plays “A.J.,” the heroine. “Just the idea of how we deal with veterans.” Actress Lisette Silva Sanchez...