On History: Tariq Ali and Oliver Stone in Conversation

About Oliver StoneTariq Ali

OLIVER STONE has won Oscars for directing “Born On The Fourth Of July and “Platoon and for writing “Midnight Express. He was nominated for director (JFK) and co-writer (Nixon). Hes also received three Golden Globes for directing (“Platoon “Born On The Fourth Of July and “JFK) one for writing (“Midnight Express). He is director for the forthcoming Showtime 10-hour series “Forgotten History of the United States.Stone wrote a novel published in 1997 by St. Martins Press entitled “A Childs Night Dream based on Stones experiences as a young man. He is a contributor of some 200 pages of essays on movies culture politics and history to the book “Oliver Stones USA edited by Robert Brent Toplin and published by the University Press of Kansas (2000). Stone wrote the afterword for a book of scholarly essays analyzing his film “Alexander called “Oliver Stones Alexander: Film History and Cultural Studies (2009). Stone was born September 15 1946 in New York New York. Prior to his film career Stone worked as a schoolteacher in Vietnam a Merchant Marine sailor taxi driver messenger production assistant and sales representative. He served in the U.S. Army Infantry in Vietnam in 1967-68. He was wounded twice and decorated with the Bronze Star for Valor. After returning from Vietnam he completed his undergraduate studies at New York University Film School in 1971.*TARIQ ALI is a writer and filmmaker. He has written more than two dozen books on world history and politics and seven novels (translated into over a dozen languages) as well as scripts for the stage and screen. He is an editor of New Left Review and lives in London. His website is http://tariqali.org/.