Controversy-magnet Oliver Stone is in the news again, after his offer to make a documentary about Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad resulted in the latter calling him part of the "Great Satan cultural establishment".
In what is the international equivalent of one of those Jerry Springer episodes where overweight women taunt each other across the room, Stone retorted with the following statement: “I have been called a lot of things, but never a Great Satan. I wish the Iranian people well and only hope their experience with an inept, rigid ideologue president goes better than ours."
The documentary, if Stone decides to go ahead anyway, would be a kind-of sequel to Comandante, in which Stone interviewed Fidel Castro, but with a far less sympathetic bent. Ahmadinejad has been widely criticised for building up Iran's nuclear arsenal, plus calling for Israel to be "wiped off the map" and denying the Holocaust. Still, apparently he's a lovely man once you get to know him.