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| 12/16/04
| Helena Smith
Posted on 12/15/2004 6:52:08 PM PST by Pikamax
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posted on
12/15/2004 6:52:08 PM PST
by
Pikamax
To: Pikamax
Airplane BTTT.
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posted on
12/15/2004 6:54:44 PM PST
by
Pilsner
To: Pikamax
Plant to Make Clean Power from Turkey Droppings
The above story is right under this. I wonder if they are related? Turkey droppings and Oliver Stone are very similar.
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posted on
12/15/2004 6:55:06 PM PST
by
shubi
(Peace through superior firepower.)
To: Pilsner
I have to admit, that's what I thought of when I was reading this.
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posted on
12/15/2004 6:56:49 PM PST
by
B Knotts
To: Pikamax
"For years, I heard that Turkish people were angry with me and I didn't feel safe there," he told the mass selling Millyet daily. Oliver get that ego in check! I bet there aren't a thousand people in Turkey who know Oliver Stone and MIDNIGHT EXPRESS, and the majority of them aren't Turks! He should be apologizing for ALEXANDER and NATURAL BORN KILLERS and HEAVEN AND EARTH and ......
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posted on
12/15/2004 6:57:48 PM PST
by
Rummyfan
To: Pikamax
I loved the movie and didn't know it was Oliver Stone until this post.
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posted on
12/15/2004 6:58:00 PM PST
by
Mears
To: Pikamax
Fine. When is he going to apologize for the rest of his "work?"
To: Pikamax
Actually John Hurt was really good in that movie. I didn`t even know it was him until years later.
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posted on
12/15/2004 7:03:21 PM PST
by
Imaverygooddriver
(I`m a very good driver and I approve this message.)
To: shubi
WRONG!!! Turkey droppings are far more useful!
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posted on
12/15/2004 7:04:00 PM PST
by
shibumi
("In any compromise between good and evil, it is only evil that can profit." - John Galt)
To: bushisdamanin04
"It's true I over-dramatised the script," 
To: Mears
Yeah, nothing like having a perfectly good movie ruined.
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posted on
12/15/2004 7:05:28 PM PST
by
stylin_geek
(Liberalism: comparable to a chicken with its head cut off, but with more spastic motions)
To: Pikamax
Well,Stone has done the almost impossible.He has found common ground among the Greeks and the Turks.They both hate Oliver Stone. LOL.
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posted on
12/15/2004 7:10:58 PM PST
by
Reaganez
To: Rummyfan; Turk2; a_Turk
Actually, they do know about "Midnight Express". I thought it was banned at one time. It was also filmed in Greece, I believe, and the Turks took it personally, as if it was "Greek Propaganda against Turkey", so to speak.
It was over dramatized and wasn't necessarily factual. Billy Hayes was a real creep of a guy at that time, so I've heard (from someone who would know). Also, wasn't he trying to smuggle drugs OUT of Turkey?
Oh well. Nice of him to apologize. Whatever.
To: Reaganez
To: Mears
I've seen this movie a dozen times and never caught that either.
To: Pilsner
That was a really good movie. I'm surprised Oliver Stone made it.
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posted on
12/15/2004 7:19:59 PM PST
by
BCrago66
To: BCrago66
Oliver Stone didn't make it. The article is unclear. He wrote the screenplay which won an Oscar. It was made by British filmmaker Alan Parker.
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posted on
12/15/2004 7:22:45 PM PST
by
Borges
To: Imaverygooddriver
John Hurt is a fantastic actor.
He was simply superb in 'The Field' with the MAGNIFICENT Richard Harris!
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posted on
12/15/2004 7:25:46 PM PST
by
Happygal
(liberalism - a narrow tribal outlook largely founded on class prejudice)
To: shubi
I lived in Turkey from 1971 to 1973 and believe me he has no reason to apologize....i guess since it's a foreign government he has the need to apologize but all the lies he's told about the US he has no regards for the truth or any need to apologize.
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posted on
12/15/2004 7:26:40 PM PST
by
BamaDi
To: Borges
Alan Parker has made some great movies.
Quite a good director.
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posted on
12/15/2004 7:27:29 PM PST
by
Happygal
(liberalism - a narrow tribal outlook largely founded on class prejudice)
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