OLIVER STONE - STONE ACCUSES HOLLYWOOD OF EXPLOITING WAR

Director Oliver Stone, who steered clear of controversy during interviews promoting his World Trade Center in the U.S. last month, returned to the thick of things over the weekend as he accused Hollywood of exploiting war. Speaking at the Venice Film Festival, Stone charged that movies such as Pearl Harbor and Black Hawk Down "worshiped the machinery of war" paving the way for America to go "back to the concept of war too easily." Stone, a Vietnam War veteran, who directed the anti-war film Platoon, said that he was "depressed" about America's strategy in Iraq, commenting that as a result, "there is more terror, there is more death, there is more war. The consequences of 9/11 are far worse than the day itself."

04/09/2006