Brace and Liz live and dangerous “spilling tea” (sorry we’re in our 30s) about Bill & Melinda’s divorce, Ghislaine’s trial and her mysterious black eye

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Welcome to The Last Thing I Saw, with your host, Nicolas Rapold. For a period in the 1980s and 90s, Oliver Stone directed movies as if somebody might stop him at any time. His movies tended to land like bombshells in American culture: Platoon, JFK, The Doors, Natural Born Killers, to name a few. I spoke with Stone recently on the occasion of the paperback publication of his latest book, Chasing the Light: Writing, Directing, and Surviving Platoon, Midnight Express, Scarface, Salvador, and the Movie Game. Stone’s global interests guaranteed that our interview would be a bit like lassoing a freight train. Stone kicks things off with some good-natured joking after I tried to explain away some background noise.

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Opening music: “Monserrate” by The Minarets

Photo by Steve Snodgrass

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In this News Brief, we break down the recent controversy over the open letter sent by 1200+ NYT contributors pushing back on The Times' salacious coverage of "trans issues," and how the Paper of Record's response has proved to be thin skinned, sanctimonious, and hypocritical.

With guests Eric Thurm and Julia Carmel.

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