OLIVER STONE - LIBERAL FILMMAKER OLIVER STONE SUPPORTS CONSERVATIVE FILMMAKER

LIBERAL FILMMAKER OLIVER STONE SUPPORTS CONSERVATIVE FILMMAKER

Liberal filmmaker Oliver Stone has expressed anger over the decision by ABC not to release on DVD a controversial miniseries, The Path to 9/11, which was condemned by fellow liberals as right-wing propaganda directed at the Clinton administration's allegedly feeble efforts to capture Osama bin Laden. "This is a shame; it's censorship in the most blatant way," Stone told today's (Wednesday) Los Angeles Times. "I'm not vouching for its accuracy -- it's a dramatization -- but it's an important work and needs to be seen." When the $40-million TV series was released last year, critics pointed to the earlier critical writings of its conservative producer, Cyrus Nowrasteh, who intimated that supporters of Senator Hillary Clinton may be behind ABC's decision to shelve the DVD release of the Emmy-nominated miniseries. "Whatever anyone may think about me or this movie, this is a bad precedent, a dangerous precedent, to allow a movie to be buried," he told the Times. An ABC spokesperson said only that the company "has no release date at this time" for the DVD.

05/09/2007