Changes

'''William Oliver Stone''', born September 15, 1946, is a famous [[American]] [[director]] and [[screenwriter]].  He has written and directed many controversial films, including ''JFK'' (1991),<ref>https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0102138/</ref> which hypothesized a number of controversies surrounding the assassination of [[John F. Kennedy]], and ''Alexander'',<ref>https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0346491/</ref> based loosely on the life of [[Alexander the Great]].  He also wrote the screenplay for the movie version of the [[Andrew Lloyd Weber]] [[musical]] ''[[Evita]]'' (directed by Alan Parker).<ref>https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0116250/</ref> and adapted 1983 cult classic ''Scarface'' from the 1932 film of the same name.  In 2008, he directed "[[W.]]",<ref>https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1175491/</ref> ostensibly a biopic of President George W. Bush, which focused solely on the negative aspects of his life, in effect smearing a sitting president.

'''William Oliver Stone''', born September 15, 1946, is a famous [[American]] [[director]] and [[screenwriter]].  He has written and directed many controversial films, including ''JFK'' (1991),<ref>https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0102138/</ref> which hypothesized a number of controversies surrounding the assassination of [[John F. Kennedy]], and ''Alexander'',<ref>https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0346491/</ref> based loosely on the life of [[Alexander the Great]].  He also wrote the screenplay for the movie version of the [[Andrew Lloyd Weber]] [[musical]] ''[[Evita]]'' (directed by Alan Parker).<ref>https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0116250/</ref> and adapted 1983 cult classic ''Scarface'' from the 1932 film of the same name.  In 2008, he directed "[[W.]]",<ref>https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1175491/</ref> ostensibly a biopic of President George W. Bush, which focused solely on the negative aspects of his life, in effect smearing a sitting president. He also participated in the Vietnam War, and cynically used his status as a veteran to create a trilogy of anti-Vietnam War and anti-American polemic films, the first film being ''Platoon'' in 1987<ref>https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0091763/</ref> (loosely based on his own experiences in the war), ''Born on the Fourth of July'' in 1989<ref>https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0096969/</ref> (based on Ron Kovic's turn to anti-Vietnam war radicalism), and ''Heaven & Earth'' in 1993<ref>https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0107096/</ref> (a loose adaptation of ''When Heaven and Earth Changed Places'' and ''Child of War, Woman of Peace'').

In spite of the often violent nature of his films, Stone has called himself "a practicing Buddhist or a student of it".<ref>http://weeklywire.com/ww/10-20-97/austin_screens_feature4.html</ref>

In spite of the often violent nature of his films, Stone has called himself "a practicing Buddhist or a student of it".<ref>http://weeklywire.com/ww/10-20-97/austin_screens_feature4.html</ref>