OliverSTONE's "W"-fans Billclinton gave a copy to Shrub; Nancy RAYGUN loved it!1

[UTUSN]

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http://www.nypost.com/p/pagesix/bipartisan_fans_JxXTmBisQUYtd2qfXcq13N

Oliver Stone's 'W.' has bipartisan fans

Oliver Stone is proud to say Bill Clinton and Nancy Reagan are fans of "W." -- his critical film on George W. Bush. "Bill Clinton told me that he gave a copy of it to Bush," Stone told Mother Jones' David Corn in an interview. "He basically said, 'I think you got it' -- the father-son connection. And I heard from a friend who was at a dinner with Nancy Reagan that she loved the movie." On directing Donald Trump in "Wall Street 2," Stone said, "He couldn't believe I asked him to do retakes . . . because he's used to telling directors what to do; it's not that easy for him to be told what to do."

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[Ian David]

1. Oliver Stone went way to easy on them in that film. n/t

[Vogon_Glory]

2. Nancy Reagan Is an Intelligent, Formidable Woman

Nancy Reagan is an intelligent, formidable woman, very clever, and a shrewd political operative in her own right. We Democrats are very lucky that nobody's likely to slip her a Ponce-de-Leon cocktail or we Democrats would be in for the fights of our lives if she won the Republican presidential nomination in 2012 or 2016.

She doesn't seem to be the sort of woman who suffered fools gladly outside of her family circle.

[yella_dawg]

3. Nancy

Reagan???

The woman who had astrologers in the White House? Say what you will about astrology, that was political idiocy.

[YOY]

4. Um...no.

n.t.

[lumberjack_jeff]

5. ... and she gave the best head in hollywood.

http://www.nypress.com/article-8504-as-not-seen-on-tv-the-rest-of-the-reagan-story.html

Sorry. I only give credit where it is due.

[UTUSN]

7. I detest all she was (viz. Kitty KELLEY) but appreciate that she has vetoed the RAYGUNites

who have tried to take FDR off the dime and put RAYGUN there, and she hated the BUSHes and Ron Jr is great. Besides the b.j.s no telling what she did to Frank... She and RAYGUN were grifters, money grubbing scramblers.

[Egnever]

10. The fact that she loved this lousy excuse for a movie

Pretty much puts the lie to everything you wrote. I am all for Bashing W but that movie suuuuucked!

[leveymg]

6. Stone made this friendly W film instead of the hard-hitting portrait of Gen. Smedley Butler. Why?

"Nixon" was also curiously superficial and devoid of reference to the worst of Nixon's crimes. "World Trade Center" (2006) was a total zero.

After Salvador (one of the funniest dark comedies ever, brilliant), JFK (important if not completely accurate), Platoon (the best Vietnam film after Apocalypse Now) and (the original) Wall Street (pretty close to perfect), and Born on the Fourth of July (OK, but not his best work) Stone has not made a decent political film for theatrical release. In recent years, he's dabbled in several documentaries about Venezuela, Colombia and was working on a project set in Iran. But, one has to wonder why his post JFK president films were so de-politicized and pointless.

It's a shame he never made the Smedley Butler film about the 1934 Banker's Plot to overthrow FDR. Maybe, he couldn't raise the money to make it -- I wouldn't be at all surprised if there are no financial backers to make a movie about that suppressed part of American history. After all, Hollywood is a business, isn't it?

[backscatter712]

8. This brings up my favoritest part of Bush's presidency...

The END of it. :evilgrin:

More specifically, those of you who've watched W or read Bush on the Couch know about Shrub's rather dysfunctional relationship with Poppy - in W, he was depicted as having a nightmare about being chewed out by Poppy in the later days of his presidency as things were falling apart around him. Yeah. Bush has got daddy issues.

So my favorite part of Bush's presidency was on Obama's inauguration day, when Bush walked out onto the balcony overlooking the Mall, and MILLIONS of people were singing "Na-na-na-na! Na-na-na-na! Hey-heeey! Good-bye!"

Remember that Poppy Bush was right there, just a few seats away from Shrub, watching the whole thing. It sounds to me like W's worst nightmare, come true! I hope it drove him to a mental breakdown!

[disndat]

9. I doubt that W cared that the

people hate him. He got what he wanted, the presidency and the chance to move trillions dollars of taxpayers money into his military industrial complex bank accounts, away from social programs to help people.

[UTUSN]

12. & the gravy was getting to do pay-back on a slew of family-cartel enemies n/t

[Radical Activist]

11. I thought Harold and Kumar escape from Guantanamo Bay

also did an excellent job of capturing the Bush father-son dynamic.