Who should direct a George W Bush biopic?  Oliver Stone's Dubya
story is nearing completion, despite the arrest of cast members
in a bar brawl last week. But is Stone really the man for the
job?  Oliver Stone and Fidel Castro. Photo: AP Oliver Stone with
Fidel Castro  Oliver Stone's George W Bush biopic, W., is now in
production in Louisiana, and I'm not so sure I'm happy about it.
I'm hoping Stone will avoid taking his usual historic licence
with such highly-flammable material, and that he'll keep his
tendency toward overt silliness in check. But there's early word
that one sequence in W. depicts Bush nearly choking to death on
a pretzel while watching TV - an actual event that seems quite a
bit less necessary to the plot than, well, other events the have
marked his time in power. So goodness only knows what tone Stone
is aiming for. I have my fingers crossed, but the results could
be ugly.  I've been wondering, then, if there's a more suitable
director to handle Bush's story. Martin Scorsese is out of the