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Oliver stone book chasing the light6/3/2023 ![]() Bush (later one of his film subjects), and at his low point as a student wrote a rambling novel that got rejected. ![]() Stone was in the same Yale class as George W. ![]() He came back, but was lost as to what to do: he tried returning to Yale, but dropped out again. (Stone goes into great detail about how sexy his mom was-he most certainly had a Oedipus complex.) He got into Yale but deferred entry for a year to go teach in Vietnam just as America was ramping up the war. He was conceived in an almost stereotypical wartime romance, his father a relatively well-off Eisenhower Republican stockbroker and his mother a more liberal-minded French woman. Stone’s life from childhood to his biggest successes encapsulates all the changes that went on during the era of the boomers. ![]() Stone’s Facebook page has had various promotional blurbs from his contemporaries, and Paul Schrader’s sums up the book very well “Oliver Stone’s story is the story of my generation writ large.” It’s a relatively wild life story, and this is the just the first 40 years, wait till he gets to the ’90s… ![]() Chasing the Light is Oliver Stone’s first memoir-but probably not his last, given that it ends at the Oscar party for his win of best director/best film for Platoon. ![]()
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