oliver stones WTC

what's this about? how cia, fbi, and cubans were behind the attacks?

or, maybe stone still has a patriotic side to his character. alexander was closer to neo-con vision of the world than the marxist.

Cal Thomas thinks it's one of the best films ever made. That's all you need to know about any possible leftist/conspiracy theorist/Marxist messages in WTC.

Of course, we only found that out from the article that told us that WTC's Creative Response Concepts was the same publicity-strategy company that had tried selling 'Narnia' to the Mel Gibson/Passion crowd...

...We, friends, are looking at a REAL-world incarnation of the proverbial 'Selling refrigerators to the Eskimos'.

Derek Janssen (and frankly, it should frighten us)

So far as I can tell there isn't any CIA, FBI, Castronistas, or any of that guff in the film.

I know Stone has made a hard road for himself and all but maybe it aught to be _seen_ 1st, Then complained about.

I found out the old school way, reading Cal's column in our local paper. But you don't need to be a conspiracy theorist to think something's afoot when Cal Thomas gets the first word in on a major Hollywood release.

'I'm not a film-critic, but I sit next to one on tv... (well, sort-of

Apparently, it's apolitical or as Stone might say, 'If I can't do leftwing paranoid, I just won't do it politically.'

I think Oliver just wants to be a good employee and come up with a commercial success after ALEXANDER.

But I did read recently in www.hollywood-elsewhere.com that Oliver will edit yet another version of ALEXANDER-this time 3 3/4 hours worth-for DVD release. I guess it's the 'keep cutting until you get it right' theory.

Mark L. Falconer-film and video links at