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Stone Previews His Version of the Truth Reporting Examination of the Warren Com- Deals with Facts, Mission 22-1..A. LIFE / THURSDAY, DECEMBER 19, 1991 / DAILY NEWS HOLLYWOOD FREEWAY FRANK SWERTLOW Stone previews his version of the truth Reporting examination of the Warren Com- deals with facts, mission. but facts don't al- Actor-director Mario Van Pee- ways tell the bles said: "This film is the reason whole story. why I got into the business — to Sometimes poets, make people think. ... This is not philosophers and a movie about Ninja Turtles or even filmmakers some nerds. It made me think." are better equiped to get at the Stone was thinking about at- truth. tacks against the film and the is- Tuesday night, at a celebrity- sues he has raised. "What's so packed screening in Westwood, dangerous?" he asked. "Why is director Oliver Stone displayed his everyone scared? You can walk version of the truth about the as- away from this film. You don't sassination of President Kennedy. have to accept my theories. But Most in attendance accepted why try to repress this? Why try to Stone's contention that the War- destroy this?" ren Commission did not reveal "It didn't change my mind," ,tie truth about the 1963 shooting said Steven Seagal, the actor who of Kennedy in Dallas. This reac- has claimed that he was an intelli- tion was a marked contrast to re- gence operative in Southeast cent published criticisms, includ- Asia. ing this week's Newsweek cover "Oliver 'did a good job," he ad- story — "The Twisted Truth of ded. Seagal's next film for Warner UFK,' " — and New York Times Bros., "Dreadnought," is about columnist Tom Wicker's attack naval intelligence. Sunday on Stone's fact-gathering. Jack Lemmon, who has a minor "This is the most important role in the film, said the movie film of the year," Sean Penn said reaffirmed his views that the War- at the post-screening party atop a ren Commission didn't reveal the nearby parking structure. "It is the truth about the assassination. most important film of the dec- "If it makes people think, terrif- ade." ic, instead of accepting. It's not Donald Sutherland, who plays important to buy Oliver's point of Colonel X, a dirty-tricks operative view. Anybody with any brains in who explains the military-indus- his head can't believe the findings trial complex theory in the film, of the Warren Commission. The .arrived with his son Kiefer. "This Warren Commission is a lie." was a wonderful job (by Stone)," Lemmon noted that his film said the elder Sutherland, who "Missing" drew strong govern- years ago had commissioned a ment reaction after it was made. It script on Mark Lane's critical re- is the story of an American father whose son was killed in Chile and 41.■,11 -111 YOU HEARD? Kevin Costner, left, is District Attorney Jim Garrison in "JFK." Donald Sutherland is Colonel X. the subsequent investigation of "outstanding, amazing." vorite? "The Last Boy Scout," the killing that was covered up Did he accept the message? "I which, you may have guessed, he and blocked by U.S. authorities. am going to have to go home and produced. "The government pooh-poohed let it seep in," he said. it," Lemmon said. "The State De- Actor Ned Beatty said he Chip shots partment denounced me and thought the film "was a little Costner is still developing a film (director) Costa-Gavras, saying it preachy. I guess it is an important about Michael Collins, one of the was a pack of lies. The govern- thing to talk about. But I think we founders of the Irish Republican ment insisted that it had nothing had the answer to all this in the Army. "We are working on the to do with the fall of (Chilean lead- late '60s when the American pub- script," he said. er Salvador) Allende. We financed lic (dumped) LBJ. It's not a Hammer will host ABC's it. It came out we were tying bad piece of filmmaking, but it "American Music Awards" Jan. through our teeth. I don't buy that told me a lot of things I already 27 at the Shrine. ... Lee Harvey Oswald did it alone. It knew and he preached an awful Burt Reynolds tells "Entertain- had to be a conspiracy. This was a lot." ment Tonight" that he'll be direct- hell of a film." Costner said that his emotional ing an episode of "VVKRP in Cin- Sissy Spacek, who co-stars in summation to the jury as Garrison cinnati" Friday in which his wife, "JFK" as the wife of New Orleans — a speech the real Garrison Loni Anderson will drop by as her District Attorney Jim Garrison never made — was done in one old character, Jennifer Marlowe, and co-starred in "Missing," said take and that he actually cried, or the role that made her a TV star. Stone changed her mind. "I was as he told Hollywood Freeway, Why is Reynolds not relaxing dur- one of the many who believed that "My character did." ing his "Evening Shade" hiatus? one person killed Kennedy. Now I Action king Joel Silver couldn't "Normally I would relish the time think at least two people had to be stop praising the film, and Stone. off I could have just sat and ate involved." "Awesome, very strong, very pow- and pork up or go out and spend a Michael Eisner, chairman of the erful; exciting. It makes you lot of money. So I might as well be Walt Disney Co., called the per- think," he said. working." formances — particularly those by After Stone left, Silver called Spacek, Kevin Costner, Tommy "JFK" the second-best Christ mas- Hollywood Freeway appears Lee Jones and Gary Oldham — season movie he has seen. His fa- Tuesday through Friday. .
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