--- In [EMAIL PROTECTED], David Goldman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am curious as to whether any has ever been able to approach big name > producers like Oliver Stone about the drug issues. In an age where the > American masses can often only be reached through the medium of > entertainment, could it be possible that some maverick producer like Stone, > of JFK fame, could become interested in a movie plot full of intrigue etc. > tying in Barry Seal, Iran-Contra, etc. in a "historical novel" type film > like JFK? The first one could start in the Golden Triangle, the second in > Latin America, etc. etc. It would reach many more people than talk radio or > other media....... > > David Goldman Oliver Stone did indeed consider a motion picture exploring certain aspects of the murder of Martin Luther King here in Memphis prior to the King family's victorious wrongful death suit against one of the former Memphis police officers involved, perhaps to include the involvement of Memphis Public Safety Director Holliman, a 25-year FBI veteran who had previously served directly with Director Hoover and had seen him on a daily basis for nearly a decade. It was so reported in the New York Times (11/23/97) that Stone had been to Memphis and has a project in development called MLK, and about that time that disinformation specialist and federal apologist Gerald Posner also was noted as snooping around, preparing his own version of those occurances in hopes of spiking Stone's guns, perhaps. But a recently deceased longtime Memphis newsman gleefully informed me that Stone had been strongarmed by an FBI agent or two and flat told that if he were to do such a film and mention the FBI involvement, he'd be set up on a narcotics possession charge and could spend the next decade watching movies in a federal prison theatre rather than making them. Shortly thereafter, lo and behold, Stone was back in Californa and was arrested on narcotics charges during a *routine* traffic stop. O-kay.... Meanwhile, back in Memphis: the ex-cop being sued admitted to his role in the King murder, and to the involvement of four other Memphis cops in the paid hit, with former military policeman James Earl Ray as the fall guy. But I don't think we'll be hearing of any such motion pictures being made by Mr. Stone, nor will any more Senate investigations like those held by Senator Frank Church look into such things: Frank Church died of this really bad cold he suddenly acquired.... -ninja-/- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Paying too much for organizational calls? Join beMANY! And pay less each month. http://click.egroups.com/1/4166/5/_/475667/_/958503918/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------
