The latest TV news:
"In 2010, Showtime will premiere a new ten-part documentary series titled Oliver Stone's Secret History of America, created and executive produced by Academy Award-winning director Oliver Stone. The series, two years in the making, will focus on events in our nation's history from the last 60 years that have gone largely unnoticed or were under-reported. Stone and a group of historians traveled to national archives in various countries to research materials used in this series. Topics covered include President Harry Truman's decision to drop the atomic bomb on Japan to the origins of the Cold War with the Soviet Union. Stone will narrate each of the one-hour episodes."
Oliver Stone. Doing a documentary on history. This would be like me making a documentary on the Canadian sport of curling if, in addition to having no respect for curling or any of its participants, I had made a career out of twisting the sport of curling into an unrecognizable falsehood. And spitting on some Canadians in the process.
Who greenlights this crap?
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Ali, have a fatal flaw in your analogy. You do not live in Canada. You did not study curling every year of your education. You have no obligation to present curling in any manner that doesn't include the phrases "ridiculous", and "how's a broom-wielding person chasing a puck on ice going to receive an Olympic medal?"
YOU, my dear must take a back seat and allow Oliver to leave no stone uncovered in his quest for the truth!
My dear aunt, if you think Oliver Stone imagines that he has any more obligation to present any kind of history in a truthful light than I have to present curling in a truthful light, you simply can't be familiar with his body of work.
Exhibit A: JFK
Exhibit B: Nixon
Exhibit C: Alexander
Exhibit D: W.
I couldn't bear to watch World Trade Center because, well, obviously. The man is a train wreck.
As for curling, I feel compelled to point out that it's a stone, not a puck, and they're not chasing it, they're going before it, but I do take your point; I really don't think it's deserving of an Olympic medal.
Canadians who may have stumbled upon this blog, please don't email me in a huff.
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