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, • 0 The Afeeeeesp, Baton Rahn.- La.. 1l Wed. Werek41,1110110 • ■ •••■11, y on, assassination puts Stone's film o shame • finally, a courageous filinmaker 1. has come forth to challenge the powerful men lying about the . assassination of John F. Kennedy. , No, I'm not talking about "JFK" ,direetor Oliver Stone, a man who seeks the truth by guessing a lot and crossing his fingers, Stone, the Hollywood director who has become powerful by sermonizing •. against power, is currently being celebrated for "JFK," a film that kiss to Jim Garrison, the former New 'condemns falsehood and then lies for Orleans district attorney who three hours. prosecuted Crescent City businessman if the film industry had an Oscar for Clay Shaw for conspiring to kill hypocrisy, Stone would be the front- Kennedy. When Garrison brought the runner to take home a trophy. Short of case against Shaw in 1969, he that, Stone should take home a copy of rhapsodized about the need for honesty Stephen Tyler's "He Must Have and a government where little people Something," a one-hour documentary could be safe. Garrison's theory — half airing tonight at 7 on LPB. hypothesis, half hallucination •— was Forget about "JFK." Tyler's "He that Paw had helped Oswald plot Mutt Have Something" is the best Kennedy's murder, with generous help recent film about the Kennedy from the Pentagon and the CIA. Clay Shaw, left, and Jim Garrison square off in 'He Must Have Something,' assassination — better than "JFK" Garrison claimed that the federal a documentary about Shaw's trial on charges he conspired to kill John F. because it practices everything that government was suppressing the truth, Stone merely preaches. Kennedy. The show airs tonight at 7 on LPB. Stone's "JFK" throws a wet, sloppy Sett DOCUMENTARY, Page 2C Documentary g CONTINUED FROM tC 02 F and that democracy itself was beholden rituals involved regularly taking his clearing Shaw. But the ordeal destroyed fraction of Stone's budget but is to the big brass of the military. • daughter's fingerprints to guarantee Shaw emotionally and financially. He enormously richer in its insights. Stone lionises Garrison's rhetoric and that she wasn't an impostor. died a broken man in 1974. Stone, like Garrison, is a man prone to Tyler rightly faults Garrison for neglects the niggling reality. He brainstorming in public — throwing out Garrison himself was not without using MeCarthylte tactics to try an conveniently fails to mention that one Idea after another, hoping that if he rh mental delusions. One of his postulates, innocent man for murder. It there is any Garrison's cue had more holes in it than says everything, he will eventually say fiD which goes unmentioned in "He Must justice, the Louisiana-made "He Must the motorcade at Dallas. Have Something," was that other JFK something. What results is stuff like What was the basis for Garrison's Have Something" will find a forum as assassins hid in the storm drains of Elm "JFK," a film that leans heavily on prosecution? Three key witnesses had large as Stone's prayerful piece of Street and shot the president from "Elvis-is-still-alive" mythology. placed Shaw In Oswald's company, propaganda. below the asphalt. These sewers were Q --I presumably to plot the murder. One Using helter-skelter camera angles The antidote to Stone, the non. only three feet high, which would have witness was a pathological liar. The and a multimillion-dollar budget, thinking man's thinking man, is "He tD required the CIA to recruit midget hit other witness was eccentric to say the Stone's "JFK" is an ambitious attempt Must Have Something." As it turns out, men to carry off the job. least. And the third crucial witness was to give his tabloid aesthetic the weight the something that Jim Garrison had a former mental patient known for his Considering the curious evidence, the of Wagnerian opera. Tyler's "tie Must was a total contempt for American flamboyant lapses of sanity. One of his jury took less than an hour before Have Something" was made for a Justice. .