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Stone, now 73, recounts those formative years with in-the-moment details of the high and low moments: We see meetings with Al Pacino over
Stone's scripts for Scarface , Platoon , and Born on the Fourth of July ; the harrowing demon of cocaine addiction following the failure of his first feature, The Hand (starring Michael Caine); his risky on-the-ground research of Miami
drug cartels for Scarface ; his stormy relationship with The Deer Hunter director Michael Cimino; the breathless hustles to finance the acclaimed and divisive Salvador; and tensions behind the scenes of his first Academy Award–winning film, Midnight Express . …”
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