![]() Their harrowing stories, and tears at seeing their experience reflected so “accurately,” stick with me. I’ve been a fan pretty much since “Salvador.” My first reporting assignment at my first newspaper, where I was a freelance critic had me take five Vietnam War veterans to a showing of “Platoon” and buy them coffee at a local diner afterwards. ![]() ![]() William Oliver “Ollie” Stone, child of Eastern privilege who eschewed at least some of that advantage to go through hard knocks on his own, a Vietnam Vet who enlisted and fought as an infantryman, later a pacifist and outspoken critic of American foreign policy and values, shock impact screenwriter and artful, sometimes poetic director - they’re all present in the 70something filmmaker’s rise-to-glory memoir, “Chasing the Light.” ![]()
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