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When "Scandal" debuted last spring, its premise seemed clear-cut and comfortable.
Benicio Del Toro didn't wait long to collect on a favor that Oliver Stone owed him for working extra hours on the set of his most recent movie, "Savages," released this year.
Oliver Stone has never been shy about ruffling feathers with his take on real-life events.
John Travolta says privacy laws should shield celebrities from the kind of exposure suffered by Kate Middleton.

John Travolta says privacy laws should shield celebrities from the kind of exposure suffered by Kate Middleton.
Steven Spielberg talked movies with Harvey Weinstein. John Travolta chatted with Bradley Cooper. Dustin Hoffman and Jack Black shared cellphone photos.
Your new friendly neighborhood Spider-Man has spun himself a $65 million opening weekend and $140 million in his first six days at U.S. theaters.
Oliver Stone has smoked great marijuana all over the world, from Vietnam and Thailand to Jamaica and South Sudan. But the filmmaker says the best weed is made in the USA and that pot could be a huge growth industry for taxpayers if it were legalized.

Typically in his movies, Oliver Stone buries the pulp and flashes the prestige. With his latest film, "Savages," he does just the opposite.

Oliver Stone has smoked great marijuana all over the world, from Vietnam and Thailand to Jamaica and South Sudan. But the filmmaker says the best weed is made in the USA and that pot could be a huge growth industry for taxpayers if it were legalized.

Taylor Kitsch struck out twice this year in the failed films "John Carter" and "Battleship," spoiling the "Friday Night Lights" actor's hopes to leap from TV to big-screen star. Now, Mr. Kitsch has a third time at bat with Oliver Stone's drug-war thriller "Savages."
Some of Oliver Stone's best-known and most-celebrated films _ including "Platoon," "Wall Street," and "Born on the Fourth of July" _ focus on complicated men. But his latest, the violent drug thriller "Savages," has a couple of formidable females at its center: Salma Hayek as the stylish, ruthless leader of a Mexican drug cartel and Blake Lively as an Orange County princess who must find a resourcefulness she never knew she had.
Taylor Kitsch struck out twice this year in the failed films "John Carter" and "Battleship," spoiling the "Friday Night Lights" actor's hopes to leap from TV to big-screen star.
The sun, in its various hues and levels of intensity, plays an important role in Oliver Stone's latest, "Savages."
The time is ticking on catching Christian Borle in his Tony Award-winning pirate ways.
"He is very interested in the world around him," Stone said, adding that the conversations sometimes center around politics and other topics.
Stone said he enjoys meeting up with Del Toro off-set because he's one of the few actors in Hollywood who can talk about something other than movies.