Oh what? Like you don't?
Guests this weekend at the Park Regency hotel may have been surprised to sniff some funny-smelling smoke drifting around director Oliver Stone's suite, but they shouldn't have been.
"I like ayahuasca," a hallucinogenic tea, said Stone, who's also spoken of his love of pot. "And I liked LSD, and I liked peyote."
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The director of "Platoon" and "JFK" thinks tripping is so beneficial, he once spiked his father's wine with acid. The gonzo filmmaker tells Chris Heath in the new GQ magazine that he was just trying to help - like the time his father lent him one of his favorite French prostitutes for the young director's first sexual experience. It was left to his mother, he added, to teach him the delicate art of self-satisfaction.
But Stone got serious to direct "World Trade Center," starring Nicolas Cage, about two Port Authority cops trapped in the collapse of the towers on 9/11. "The script was very emotional - it got to me," said the moviemaker, a Trinity School and Yale grad who served in Vietnam.
In fact, it was the uniform jacket he wore to Martin Scorsese's film class - and Stone's angry attitude - that he claims provided Scorsese with one of his greatest inspirations.
"Whatever it was," he said, "he certainly used it in 'Taxi Driver.'
"I'm sure that factored in, because I was driving a cab. He may not have known about it, but the seething part, and I used to wear an Army jacket, and I looked a lot like [Robert] De Niro going to class."
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Frog licking no doubt tops ... (Below threshold)1. Posted by Jeff Blogworthy | July 19, 2006 3:56 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
Frog licking no doubt tops his extracurricular activities list as well.
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Posted on July 19, 2006 15:56