Oliver Stone's W

Actor Josh Brolin has been arrested for being in a fight in a bar.

Of course, that isn't what I am going to comment on. An actor being arrested for a fight in a bar is not an exciting news story. It is about as groundbreaking and new as a footballer being arrested for rape. Or a politician being accused of corruption. Stories such as this are deeply predictable and almost beyond tedious. They are the staple diet, the very backbone of the 24/7 media cycle.

What did strike me is the fact that Mr "Bar Fighter" Brolin is the:

"...star in Oliver Stone's new film about George W Bush... The Times of Shreveport newspaper said the others arrested were also working on the film, called W."

Really? Oliver Stone's new film about George W. Bush? Called W?! Well, that's going to be neutral, isn't it? Fuck me, Stone will be in his element with a film about Dubya. I wonder whether he will abandon all attempts to make the film even-handed and go with a brutal hatchet job. I wonder whether Stone will actually go the whole hog and put devil horns onto the head of Dubya in every single scene he appears in?

Don't get me wrong, I am no fan of George W. But there is a lot of interesting history in the past eight years of US politics. And there is a great story to be told in how Dubya's simple worldview helped to make the world into an even more complicated mess than it was when he came to power. It is a story that should be told after Bush has left power, after the dust has settled a little bit. And it is a story that should be told by someone other than hysterical liberal and demented conspiracy theory nut Oliver Stone.