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A real coup for Chavez? - Not according to Stone (Oliver Stone Calls Chavez a Liar!)
NY Daily News ^ | 5/23/06

Posted on 05/23/2006 9:27:10 AM PDT by areafiftyone

Oliver Stone has branded Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez a liar.

Chavez declared on Sunday that the "JFK" director was teaming with British producer John Daly to make a film about the 2002 military coup against him.

"They've asked for our permission to announce it today in Cannes [at the film fest], and we've told them yes," Chavez said during his weekly TV and radio program. He said that he'd already met with Daly to talk about the project.

Instead, Stone and Daly told Cannes reporters Chavez was full of bull.

Daly confirmed he was working on a film called "The Coup," but said, "There have been no discussions … with either President Chavez or Oliver Stone."

Stone bluntly called "rumors" that he was directing a Venezuelan coup flick "untrue and unfounded."

Our call to the Venezuelan embassy wasn't immediately returned. But Chavez is already smelling another Bush administration plot.

"Could it be that the imperial [U.S.] government is going to try to keep a movie from being filmed about the coup d'état that they planned and directed?" Chavez said during his broadcast. "Let's see if they can."

Chavez has accused the White House of orchestrating the 2002 coup attempt, a claim U.S. officials have vigorously denied.

While some think Stone never heard a conspiracy theory he didn't like, the left-leaning filmmaker may not be eager to become Chavez's latest PR puppet.

Harry Belafonte and Danny Glover both came under fire after Chavez released tapes of them denouncing President Bush during visits to Venezuela. Stone, who was accused of coddling Fidel Castro in a documentary about the Cuban despot, could probably do without any kisses from Chavez right now.

Promoting his new film, "World Trade Center," Stone has tried to distance himself from past statements suggesting that some WTC rescue workers were thieves and the Muslim "revolt of Sept. 11" was understandable.

He sounded almost patriotic Sunday at Cannes, where he screened the first 20 minutes of "World Trade Center."

The movie was "the true story of two New York Port Authority policemen trapped in the rubble," their wives and children "and their incredible, improbable rescue," Stone told an audience, who gave his clip magnificent applause.

It's due to open in August.



TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: hugoping
Verrry Interesting!
1 posted on 05/23/2006 9:27:11 AM PDT by areafiftyone
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To: areafiftyone

Somewhere, two disk jockeys are laughing their heads off.


2 posted on 05/23/2006 9:31:04 AM PDT by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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To: areafiftyone

Who to believe, Chavez or Stone? That really is not all that easy. Can they both be lying?


3 posted on 05/23/2006 9:32:04 AM PDT by Always Right
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To: areafiftyone
"Promoting his new film, "World Trade Center," Stone has tried to distance himself from past statements suggesting that some WTC rescue workers were thieves and the Muslim "revolt of Sept. 11" was understandable"

Grrrr....

4 posted on 05/23/2006 9:32:21 AM PDT by BenLurkin
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To: areafiftyone

Yeah, Oliver Stone is Secretly "Dubya's" puppet.....Now that is a kook conspiracy theory if there ever was one.


5 posted on 05/23/2006 9:33:30 AM PDT by Kakaze (American: a Citizen of the United States of America........not just some resident of said continent)
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To: BenLurkin

This film trailer looks very good regardless of What Oliver Stone said in the past. And the two Port Authority policemen were on the set advising all the way so Oliver Stone couldn't screw this one up.


6 posted on 05/23/2006 9:34:19 AM PDT by areafiftyone
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To: areafiftyone

Pat Robertson was right...we shoudl have offed Chavez some time ago and maide it look like an accident


7 posted on 05/23/2006 9:37:39 AM PDT by Ouderkirk (Funny how death and destruction seems to happen wherever Muslims gather...)
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To: areafiftyone
"This film trailer looks very good regardless of What Oliver Stone said"

Oliver Stone call the rescue workers thieves. Many of those rescue workers died trying to save people.

I will not pay money to see ANY more of Stone's films. He is a bias fool, and takes cheap shots at our heroes whenever it serves him.
8 posted on 05/23/2006 10:02:24 AM PDT by JeffersonRepublic.com (There is no truth in the news, and no news in the truth.)
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To: proud_yank

Chavez vs Stone lying PING.


9 posted on 05/23/2006 10:02:51 AM PDT by jazusamo (-- Married a WAC in '65 and I'm still reenlisting. :-)
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To: jazusamo; Hill of Tara; Victoria Delsoul; Army Air Corps; Thunder90; monkeywrench; cll; penowa; ...


PING – Hugo is at it again!

Please FReepmail me if you would like on/off the Hugo/Venezuela Ping list.

HugoPing Archive

10 posted on 05/23/2006 11:28:22 AM PDT by proud_yank (A liberal's 'generosity' is limited to the funds available in someone else's account.)
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