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Top 10 Sports Figures 2024

#10. Sir Alex Ferguson

#9. Mike McCarthy

#8. Barry Hinson

#7. Chip Kelly

#6. Jimmy Johnson

#5. Bill Belichick

#4. Sonny Dykes

#3. Mack Brown

#2. Terry Bowden

#1. Gary Patterson

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Barry Hinson

Physique: Average Build

Barry Douglas Hinson (born May 12, 1961) is an American college basketball coach and most recently was the head coach of the Southern Illinois Salukis men's basketball team (SIU). Before SIU he was the Director of Men's Basketball Operations at the University of Kansas, head coach of Missouri State University and head coach of Oral Roberts University. Hinson is now Analyst, for the Men's Basketball team at Oklahoma State University.

In 18 seasons as a head coach, the Marlow, OK native tallied 14 winning seasons, including eight season with at least 19 wins, finished in the top three of his conference nine times and advanced to the NIT on four occasions.

Handsome with nice legs, Barry is what I like to call “nerdy hot.” Hinson and his wife have two daughters and two grandsons. There isn't much else I can say about him. He's lovely looking and I'd love to fuck him until I'm dry.

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Barry Hinson always looked great, and bulged, in suits.

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Barry Hinson American Basketball Coach

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23 Republican Senators & 124 Congressmen signed an amicus brief to the Supreme Court asking for a 50 state ban on mifepristone, a drug safer than tylenol that is standard treatment for abortion & miscarriages, "due to safety concerns". The brief DARES to argue that banning the life saving drug would save women from 'reproductive control'. (x) These 147 people would rather have women die of sepsis than let women control their own bodies. If your representatives are on this list, call them and tell their office you will be voting against them in the next election because they asked SCOTUS to throw the US medical drug system into chaos at the cost of American lives.

United States Senate

Lead Senator: Cindy Hyde-Smith (MS) John Barrasso (WY) Mike Braun (IN) Katie Britt (AL) Ted Budd (NC) Bill Cassidy (LA) Kevin Cramer (ND) Mike Crapo (ID) Ted Cruz (TX) Steve Daines (MT) Josh Hawley (MO) John Hoeven (ND) James Lankford (OK) Mike Lee (UT) Cynthia Lummis (WY) Roger Marshall (KS) Markwayne Mullin (OK) James Risch (ID) Marco Rubio (FL) Rich Scott (FL) John Thune (SD) Tommy Tuberville (AL) Roger Wicker (MS)

United States House of Representatives

Lead Representative: August Pfluger (TX–11) Robert Aderholt (AL–04) Mark Alford (MO–04) Rick Allen (GA–12) Jodey Arrington (TX–19) Brian Babin (TX–36) Troy Balderson (OH–12) Jim Banks (IN–03) Aaron Bean (FL–04) Cliff Bentz (OR–02) Jack Bergman (MI–01) Andy Biggs (AZ–05) Gus Bilirakis (FL–12) Dan Bishop (NC–08) Lauren Boebert (CO–03) Mike Bost (IL–12) Josh Brecheen (OK–02) Ken Buck (CO–04) Tim Burchett (TN–02) Michael Burgess, M.D. (TX–26) Eric Burlison (MO–07) Kat Cammack (FL–03) Mike Carey (OH–15) Jerry Carl (AL–01) Earl L. “Buddy” Carter (GA–01) John Carter (TX–31) Ben Cline (VA–06) Michael Cloud (TX–27) Andrew Clyde (GA–09) Mike Collins (GA–10) Elijah Crane (AZ–02) Eric A. “Rick” Crawford (AR–01) John Curtis (UT–03) Warren Davidson (OH–08) Monica De La Cruz (TX–15) Jeff Duncan (SC–03) Jake Ellzey (TX–06) Ron Estes (KS–04) Mike Ezell (MS–04) Pat Fallon (TX–04) Randy Feenstra (IA–04) Brad Finstad (MN–01) Michelle Fischbach (MN–07) Scott Fitzgerald (WI–05) Mike Flood (NE–01) Virginia Foxx (NC–05) Scott Franklin (FL–18) Russell Fry (SC–07) Russ Fulcher (ID–01) Tony Gonzales (TX–23) Bob Good (VA–05) Paul Gosar (AZ–09) Garret Graves (LA–06) Mark Green (TN–07) Marjorie Taylor Greene (GA–14) H. Morgan Griffith (VA–09) Glenn Grothman (WI–06) Michael Guest (MS–03) Harriet Hageman (WY) Andy Harris, M.D. (MD–01) Diana Harshbarger (TN–01) Kevin Hern (OK–01) Clay Higgins (LA–03) Ashley Hinson (IA–02) Erin Houchin (IN–02) Richard Hudson (NC–09) Bill Huizenga (MI–04) Bill Johnson (OH–06) Mike Johnson (LA–04) Jim Jordan (OH–04) Mike Kelly (PA–16) Trent Kelly (MS–01) Doug LaMalfa (CA–01) Doug Lamborn (CO–05) Nicholas Langworthy (NY–23) Jake LaTurner (KS–02) Debbie Lesko (AZ–08) Barry Loudermilk (GA–11) Blaine Luetkemeyer (MO–03) Tracey Mann (KS–01) Lisa McClain (MI–09) Dr. Rich McCormick (GA–06) Patrick McHenry (NC–10) Carol Miller (WV–01) Mary Miller (IL–15) Max Miller (OH–07) Cory Mills (FL–07) John Moolenar (MI–02) Alex X. Mooney (WV–02) Barry Moore (AL–02) Blake Moore (UT–01) Gregory F. Murphy, M.D. (NC–03) Troy Nehls (TX–22) Ralph Norman (SC–05) Andy Ogles (TN–05) Gary Palmer (AL–06) Bill Posey (FL–08) Guy Reschenthaler (PA–14) Mike Rogers (AL–03) John Rose (TN–06) Matthew Rosendale, Sr. (MT–02) David Rouzer (NC–07) Steve Scalise (LA–01) Keith Self (TX–03) Pete Sessions (TX–17) Adrian Smith (NE–03) Christopher H. Smith (NJ–04) Lloyd Smucker (PA–11) Pete Stauber (MN–08) Elise Stefanik (NY–21) Dale Strong (AL–05) Claudia Tenney (NY–24) Glenn Thompson (PA–15) William Timmons, IV (SC–04) Beth Van Duyne (TX–24) Tim Walberg (MI–05) Michael Waltz (FL–05) Randy Weber, Sr. (TX–14) Daniel Webster (FL–11) Brad R. Wenstrup, D.P.M. (OH–02) Bruce Westerman (AR–04) Roger Williams (TX–25) Joe Wilson (SC–02) Rudy Yakym (IN–02)

If your representatives are on this list, call them and tell their office you will be voting against them in the next election because they asked SCOTUS to throw the US medical drug system into chaos at the cost of American lives.

Help to patients who have to cross state lines to get medical care by donating to your local abortion fund here. (x)

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Monsters October 29, 2022

Photo: Ray Harryhausen and friend

Monsters. Y’know, for Halloween. This is one of those 3 hour shows!

stream on Mixcloud

Bay City Rollers - Saturday Night Nervous Gender - Monsters

DJ speaks over Richiro Manabe - The Transforming Pollution Monster

Heavens to Betsy - Monsters Slant 6 - What Kind of Monster Are You? The Campanions - Dorothy, My Monster Swingo Porkies - Un Monstre es en Moi

DJ speaks over The Big Guys - Zombie

Inflatable Boy Clams - Skeletons Comus - Diana Los Shain's - El Monstruo Shonen Knife - Kappa Ex. RJD2 - The Horror

DJ speaks over Goblin - Zombi

Hugh Cornwell & Robert Williams - Nosferatu Frank Chickens - Mothra Nicole Paquin - Mon mari c'est Frankenstein Entombed - Night of the Vampire Cochonne - Vampire

DJ speaks over Hot Blood - Even Vampires Fall in Love

David Thomas and Wooden Birds - Monster Walks the Winter Lake Hamlett - Vampire Man Monsters Crash the Pajama Party Trailer John Cooper Clarke - (I Married a) Monster from Outer Space (Live at the Electric Circus)

DJ speaks over Don Hinson and the Rigamorticians - Monster Surf Stomp

Sally Skull - Bride of Frankenstein NoMeansNo - Hunt the She-Beast Aphrodite's Child - The Beast Johnny Whitaker - Sigmund & the Sea Monsters Barry Dransfield - The Werewolf

DJ speaks over John Lurie National Orchestra - The Beast

Ephraim Uzomechina Nzeka - Zombie The Hollywood Flames - Frankenstein's Den Mecht Mensch - Zombie X-Prays - Bracket Vampire

DJ speaks over Byron Lee and the Dragonaires - Frankenstein Ska

The Bats - Free All the Monsters Buck Owens - (It's A) Monster's Holiday Belvoir - Le Serpent Clan of Xymox - Medusa Clothilde - La Chanson Bête Et Méchante Warning - Beasts of Fiction The Vampires of Dartmoore - Der Feurdrachen Von Hongkong

DJ speaks over Science Fiction Corporation - Monster on Saturn 1

The Only Ones - The Beast Gene "Bowlegs" Miller - Frankenstein Walk Max and the Makeups - Chasing the Monsters Piece War - Monster Pel Mel - Big Foot

DJ speaks over Aphrodite's Child - The Wakening Beast

Slint - Nosferatu Man Mad Kenny's Allnight Drinker - Zombie Rock Outpatients - Zombie Tyme

DJ speaks over The Moontrekkers - Night of the Vampire

Toto Coelo - Dracula's Tango (Sucker For Your Love)

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What is the hottest thing you have ever imagined about Coach Patterson that isn't just sex?

I throw a pool party and GP is one of the guests, as well as all the coaches I like (Gary Patterson, Sonny Dykes, Mack Brown, Gregg Popovich, Brian Kelly, Barry Hinson, Mike Scioscia, Chip Kelly, Kevin Wilson, Mike Elko, Pat Narduzzi, Mark Stoops, John Fields, Mike McCarthy). All the coaches are in the backyard, eating barbeque and drinking beers, shirtless and only wearing sheer shorts of varying light pastel colors, blues, pinks, yellows, and whites, with GP wearing white. We get to watch him dive into the pool and come out like Phoebe Cates, from “Fast Times at Ridgemont High,” and that pool scene. Instead of showing him from the waist up, like her, we get to see him in all his thicc daddy-bear gorgeousness. We watch him walk a bit, wet chest hair stuck down to his thick pecs and belly, his package, swaying side to side, clearly visible through his sheer white shorts before he slowly removes them and tosses them aside... Mmm... 

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Barry Hinson

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Barry Hinson and Pete Gillen

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Here are the US representatives who voted against the US pro-LGBT+ Equality Act

The US Equality Act is to outlaw discrimination against LGBTQ people in housing, credit, jury service, public accommodations, and federal funding.

The House of Representatives passed the legislation yesterday, but it is unlikely that the Senate will follow up, given the Republican Party's increasing hostility to queer people. They are currently weaponizing transphobia in an attempt at mobilizing their base.

In the Senate the bill will require at least 10 Republicans to vote with all Democrats to advance past the so-called filibuster.

Metro Weekly has listed the representatives that voted against the law in the House.

Photo of Rep. Marie Newman.

Alabama:

Robert Aderholt

Mo Brooks

Jerry Carl

Barry Moore

Gary Palmer

Mike Rogers

Alaska:

Don Young

Arizona:

Andy Biggs

Paul A. Gosar

Debbie Lesko

David Schweikert

Arkansas:

Rick Crawford

French Hill

Bruce Westerman

Steve Womack

California:

Ken Calvert

Darrell Issa

Mike Garcia

Young Kim

Doug LaMalfa

Kevin McCarthy

Tom McClintock

Devin Nunes

Jay Obernolte

Michelle Steel

David G. Valadao

Colorado:

Lauren Boebert

Ken Buck

Doug Lamborn

Florida:

Gus M. Bilirakis

Vern Buchanan

Kat Cammack

Mario Diaz-Balart

Byron Donalds

Neal Dunn

C. Scott Franklin

Matt Gaetz

Carlos A. Gimenez

Brian Mast

Bill Posey

John Rutherford

Maria Elvira Salazar

W. Gregory Steube

Michael Waltz

Daniel Webster

Georgia:

Rick Allen

Buddy Carter

Andrew S. Clyde

A. Drew Ferguson

Marjorie Taylor Greene

Jody Hice

Barry Loudermilk

Austin Scott

David Scott

Idaho:

Russ Fulcher

Mike Simpson

Illinois:

Mike Bost

Rodney Davis

Darin LaHood

Adam Kinzinger

Mary E. Miller

Indiana:

Jim Banks

James Baird

Larry Bucshon

Trey Hollingsworth

Greg Pence

Victoria Spartz

Jackie Walorski

Iowa:

Randy Feenstra

Ashley Hinson

Mariannette Miller-Meeks

Kansas:

Ron Estes

Jake LaTurner

Tracey Mann

Kentucky:

Andy Barr

James Comer

S. Brett Guthrie

Thomas Massie

Harold Rogers

Louisiana:

Clay Higgins

Garret Graves

Mike Johnson

Steve Scalise

Maryland:

Andy Harris

Michigan:

Jack Bergman

Bill Huizenga

Lisa C. McClain

Peter Meijer

John Moolenaar

Fred Upton

Tim Walberg

Minnesota:

Tom Emmer

Michelle Fischbach

Jim Hagedorn

Pete Stauber

Mississippi:

Michael Guest

Trent Kelly

Steven Palazzo

Missouri:

Sam Graves

Vicky Hartzler

Billy Long

Blaine Luetkemeyer

Jason Smith

Ann Wagner

Montana:

Matthew M. Rosendale

Nebraska:

Don Bacon

Jeff Fortenberry

Adrian Smith

Nevada:

Mark Amodei

New Jersey:

Chris Smith

Jefferson Van Drew

New Mexico:

Yvette Herrell

New York:

Andrew R. Garbarino

Chris Jacobs

Nicole Malliotakis

Elise Stefanik

Claudia Tenney

Lee Zeldin

North Carolina:

Dan Bishop

Ted Budd

Madison Cawthorn

Gregory Francis Murphy

Virginia Foxx

Richard Hudson

Patrick T. McHenry

David Rouzer

North Dakota:

Kelly Armstrong

Ohio:

Troy Balderson

Steve Chabot

Warren Davidson

Bob Gibbs

Anthony Gonzalez

Jim Jordan

Bill Johnson

David Joyce

Robert E. Latta

Steve Stivers

Michael Turner

Brad Wenstrup

Oklahoma:

Stephanie I. Bice

Tom Cole

Kevin Hern

Frank Lucas

Markwayne Mullin

Oregon:

Cliff Bentz

Pennsylvania:

John Joyce

Mike Kelly

Daniel Meuser

Scott Perry

Guy Reschenthaler

Lloyd Smucker

Glenn Thompson

South Carolina:

Jeff Duncan

Nancy Mace

Ralph Norman

Tom Rice

William Timmons

Joe Wilson

South Dakota:

Dusty Johnson

Tennessee:

Timm Burchett

Scott DesJarlais

Chuck Fleischmann

Mark Green

Diana Harshbarger

David Kustoff

John W. Rose

Texas:

Jodey Arrington

Brian Babin

Kevin Bady

Michael Burgess

John Carter

Michael Cloud

Dan Crenshaw

Pat Fallon

Louie Gohmert

Tony Gonzales

Lance Gooden

Kay Granger

Ronny Jackson

Michael T. McCaul

Troy E. Nehls

August Pfluger

Chip Roy

Pete Sessions

Van Taylor

Beth Van Duyne

Randy Weber

Roger Williams

Utah:

John R. Curtis

Blake D. Moore

Burgess Owens

Christ Stewart

Virginia:

Ben Cline

Bob Good

Morgan Griffith

Robert J. Wittman

Washington:

Jaime Herrera Beutler

Cathy McMorris Rodgers

Dan Newhous

West Virginia:

David McKinley

Carol Miller

Alex Mooney

Wisconsin:

Scott Fitzgerald

Mike Gallagher

Glenn Grothman

Bryan Steil

Thomas P. Tiffany

Wyoming:

Liz Cheney

All Democrats voted for the legislation, as did three Republicans.

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Damn, Barry! Thanks for lifting up this drab Friday! Hate that no one took video... Imagine his cock just swinging around... 🤤

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Full List of 172 Republicans Who Opposed the Violence Against Women Act

1. Robert Aderholt (AL) 2. Rick Allen (GA) 3. Mark Amodei (NV) 4. Kelly Armstrong (ND) 5. Jodey Arrington (TX) 6. Brian Babin (TX) 7. Don Bacon (NE) 8. James Baird (IN) 9. Jim Banks (IN) 10. Andy Barr (KY) 11. Cliff Bentz (OR). 12. Jack Bergman (MI) 13. Andy Biggs (AZ) 14. Gus Bilirakis (FL) 15. Dan Bishop (NC) 16. Lauren Boebert (CO) 17. Mo Brooks (AL) 18. Vern Buchanan (FL) 19. Ken Buck (CO) 20. Larry Buschon (IN) 21. Ted Budd (NC) 22. Tim Burchett (TN) 23. Michael Burgess (TX) 24. Ken Calvert (CA) 25. Kat Cammack (FL). 26. Jerry Carl (AL) 27. Madison Cawthorn (NC) 28. Steve Chabot (OH) 29. Liz Cheney (WY) 30. Ben Cline (VA) 31. Michael Cloud (TX) 32. Andrew Clyde (GA) 33. James Comer (KY) 34. Eric Crawford (AR) 35. John Curtis (UT) 36. Warren Davidson (OH) 37. Scott DesJarlais (TN) 38. Byron Donalds (FL) 39. Jeff Duncan (SC) 40. Neal Dunn (FL) 41. Tom Emmer (MN) 42. Ron Estes (KS) 43. Pat Fallon (TX) 44. Randy Feenstra (IA) 45. A. Drew Ferguson (GA) 46. Michelle Fischbach (MN) 47. Scott Fitzgerald (WI) 48. Charles Fleischmann (TN) 49. Jeff Fortenberry (NE) 50. Virginia Foxx (NC) 51. Scott Franklin (FL) 52. Russ Fulcher (ID) 53. Matt Gaetz (FL) 54. Mike Gallagher (WI) 55. Andrew Garbarino (NY) 56. Mike Garcia (CA) 57. Bob Gibbs (OH) 58. Louie Gohmert (TX) 59. Tony Gonzales (TX) 60. Bob Good (VA) 61. Lance Gooden (TX) 62. Paul Gosar (AZ) 63. Kay Granger (TX) 64. Garret Graves (LA) 65. Sam Graves (MO) 66. Mark Green (TN) 67. Marjorie Taylor Greene (GA) 68. H. Morgan Griffith (VA) 69. Glenn Grothman (WI) 70. Brett Guthrie (KY) 71. Jim Hagedorn (MN) 72. Andy Harris (MD) 73. Diana Harshbarger (TN) 74. Vicky Hartzler (MO) 75. Kevin Hern (OK) 76. Yvette Herrell (NM) 77. Jaime Herrera Beutler (WA) 78. Jody Hice (GA) 79. Clay Higgins (LA) 80. J. Hill (AR) 81. Ashley Hinson (IA) 82. Trey Hollingsworth (IN) 83. Richard Hudson (NC) 84. Bill Huizenga (MI) 85. Ronny Jackson (TX) 86. Mike Johnson (LA) 87. Bill Johnson (OH) 88. Dusty Johnson (SD) 89. Jim Jordan (OH) 90. John Joyce (PA) 91. Fred Keller (PA) 92. Trent Kelly (MS) 93. Mike Kelly (PA) 94. David Kustoff (TN) 95. Darin LaHood (IL) 96. Doug LaMalfa (CA) 97. Doug Lamborn (CO) 98. Robert Latta (OH) 99. Jake LaTurner (KS) 100. Debbie Lesko (AZ) 101. Billy Long (MO) 102. Frank Lucas (OK) 103. Blaine Luetkemeyer (MO) 104. Nancy Mace (SC) 105. Tracey Mann (KS) 106. Thomas Massie (KY) 107. Brain Mast (FL) 108. Kevin McCarthy (CA) 109. Lisa McClain (MI) 110. Tom McClintock (CA) 111. Patrick McHenry (NC) 112. David McKinley (WV) 113. Daniel Meuser (PA) 114. Mary Miller (IL) 115. Carol Miller (WV) 116. John Moolenaar (MI) 117. Alexander Mooney (WV) 118. Barry Moore (AL) 119. Blake Moore (UT) 120. Gregory Murphy (NC) 121. Troy Nehls (TX) 122. Dan Newhouse (WA) 123. Ralph Norman (SC) 124. Devin Nunes (CA) 125. Jay Obernolte (CA) 126. Burgess Owens (UT) 127. Steven Palazzo (MS) 128. Gary Palmer (AL) 129. Greg Pence (IN) 130. Scott Perry (PA) 131. August Pfluger (TX) 132. Bill Posey (FL) 133. Guy Reschenthaler (PA) 134. Tom Rice (SC) 135. Cathy Rodgers (WA) 136. Mike Rogers (AL) 137. Harold Rogers (KY) 138. John Rose (TN) 139. David Rouzer (NC) 140. Chip Roy (TX) 141. John Rutherford (FL) 142. Steve Scalise (LA) 143. David Schweikert (AZ) 144. Austin Scott (GA) 145. Pete Sessions (TX) 146. Jason Smith (MO) 147. Adrian Smith (NE) 148. Christopher Smith (NJ) 149. Lloyd Smucker (PA) 150. Victoria Spartz (IN) 151. Michelle Steel (CA) 152. Elise Stefanik (NY) 153. W. Gregory Steube (FL) 154. Chris Stewart (UT) 155. Van Taylor (TX) 156. Claudia Tenney (NY) 157. Glenn Thompson (PA) 158. Thomas Tiffany (WI) 159. William Timmons (SC) 160. Michael Turner (OH) 161. Beth Van Duyne (TX) 162. Ann Wagner (MO) 163. Tim Walberg (MI) 164. Jackie Walorski (IN) 165. Michael Waltz (FL) 166. Randy Weber Sr. (TX) 167. Daniel Webster (FL) 168. Bruce Westerman (AR) 169. Roger Williams (TX) 170. Robert Wittman (VA) 171. Steve Womack (AR) 172. Lee Zeldin (NY)

https://www.newsweek.com/full-list-172-republicans-opposed-violence-against-women-act-1577029

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Total Recall: 10 Best Oliver Stone films

He’s won 10 Golden Globes, nine Oscars, and four BAFTAs during his long and illustrious career — but Oliver Stone has somehow never been the focus of his own Total Recall, so we decided to change that in honor of this weekend’s Savages, an intriguingly cast drug drama based on the Don Winslow novel about a pair of pot farmers racing to free the woman they love from a Mexican drug cartel. Given his lengthy filmography, you know Stone’s got some good stuff in his filmography — and the cream of the crop is right here in this week’s list.

10. W.

The most recent chapter of Stone’s presidential trilogy, W. served George W. Bush — who was wrapping up his second term while it was filmed — with a somewhat muted, surprisingly sympathetic biopic that traced his occasionally haphazard rise from political scion to oil baron and back again. While Josh Brolin earned near-universal praise for his work in the title role, critics found W. as a whole a little harder to take, citing its laconic pace and insufficiently hard-hitting approach as particularly troublesome flaws. For others, however, it proved a warm, fairly witty farewell for the GWB years; as the Chicago Tribune’s Michael Phillips put it, “The film may be ill-timed, arguably unnecessary and no more psychologically probing than any other Stone movie. But much of it works as deft, brisk, slyly engaging docudrama.”

9. COMANDANTE

For a lot of Americans — especially those who grew up during the early years of the Cold War — Fidel Castro is less a world leader than a shadowy boogeyman whose thirst for brinkmanship nearly triggered World War III. But whatever his sins, Castro remains a longtime veteran of international politics and a subject worthy of investigation — hence Oliver Stone’s Comandante, a 93-minute distillation of the three days he spent filming the Cuban leader in 2002. While a sizable number of critics chafed at Stone’s aggressively friendly attitude toward his subject, others saw something of significant, albeit flawed, value; as Alan Morrison argued for Empire, it is “An opportunity frustratingly squandered, but one which still makes for fascinating viewing thanks to Castro’s natural charisma. Errol Morris would have nailed it.”

8. WORLD TRADE CENTER

Oliver Stone is known for his willingness to entertain conspiracy theories, his leftist political leanings, and his fondness for lurid cinematic violence, so when word got out he was planning to direct a movie about the September 11 attacks, some people were understandably nervous. But like any other director worth his title, Stone understands his role as a storyteller, and World Trade Center — starring Nicolas Cage and Michael Peña as a pair of real-life police officers who were caught in the wreckage after the buildings fell — has no room for politics or conspiracies. Its clear-eyed dedication to the people first affected by the attacks — and the selfless bravery of the men and women who worked to rescue the living — was appreciated by critics like David Denby of the New Yorker, who wrote, “The world may not make sense anymore, but Oliver Stone, a warrior still, celebrating courage and endurance, has, in his own way, come home.”

7. NIXON

In the years immediately following JFK, Stone took detours into war epic territory (Heaven & Earth) and social commentary (Natural Born Killers), but he wasn’t finished with the White House yet. With 1995’s ambitious Nixon, Stone gave us Anthony Hopkins as the disgraced former president and Joan Allen as his wife Pat — and while the 192-minute political epic failed to generate much heat at the box office, both Hopkins and Allen received Oscar nominations for their work in the film, which follows a non-linear path through Nixon’s life and career, taking viewers from his California youth through his resignation. “What it finally adds up to,” argued Janet Maslin of the New York Times, “is a huge mixed bag of waxworks and daring, a film that is furiously ambitious even when it goes flat, and startling even when it settles for eerie, movie-of-the-week mimicry.”

6. WALL STREET

Smart, sleek, and eminently quotable, Stone’s yuppie jeremiad Wall Street gifted Michael Douglas with what arguably became the most iconic role of his career: He was simply perfect as the oily, morally adrift Gordon Gekko, and although Gekko’s signature proclamation that “greed is good” would go on to haunt Douglas, he was an emblematic character for an era in American history when it became acceptable to not only dedicate your life to the naked pursuit of wealth, but to attain it by any means necessary. Stone, who co-wrote the screenplay, based the character on a number of stockbrokers — including his own father — and Douglas embodied Gekko so well that he ended up winning an Oscar for his work. “Like the rest of Stone’s oeuvre, it’s about as subtle as a sledgehammer,” wrote Christopher Lloyd of the Sarasota Herald-Tribune. “But his filmmaking style is like heavy metal: When he hits the right chords, nobody plays with as much power or brash energy.”

5. TALK RADIO

A rare starring vehicle for monologist/playwright/character actor/cult hero Eric Bogosian, Talk Radio found Stone behind the cameras for a loose adaptation of Bogosian’s play of the same name. Inspired by the real-life assassination of Denver DJ Alan Berg, Radio centers around Dallas radio personality Barry Champlain, whose deliberately provocative style (and decidedly non-Red State political views) make him a target of hate mail and bomb threats even as his show is poised to achieve national syndication. Saying it “has the loony intensity of those impassioned conspiracy theorists who look out at the world and see patterns of corruption spreading in all directions,” the Washington Post’s Hal Hinson declared, “it’s another of Stone’s wake-up calls to America.”

4. JFK

A two-time Oscar winner and controversial, career-rejuvenating smash hit for Stone, JFK reconstructs John F. Kennedy’s assassination and then spends most of its epic 189-minute length sifting through the wreckage, treating the killing as a murder mystery that New Orleans D.A. Jim Garrison (Kevin Costner) doggedly attempts to solve at any cost. With an impeccable supporting cast that included Sissy Spacek, Kevin Bacon, Tommy Lee Jones, and Gary Oldman, as well as a screenplay that challenged long-held assumptions about Kennedy’s death, JFK reignited interest in the assassination, eventually leading to new legislation that ordered a reinvestigation and promised that all documents related to the killing would be made public by 2017. And while many critics agreed that the movie could have benefited from a more rigorous approach to the facts, it remains, in the words of the Washington Post’s Desson Thomson, “A riveting marriage of fact and fiction.”

3. PLATOON

The first installment in Stone’s so-called Vietnam trilogy, 1986’s Platoon took a hard look at American involvement in the Vietnam War — and earned Stone Best Picture and Best Director at the Oscars and the Golden Globes in the bargain. Taking a grunt’s-eye view of the war, it puts a human face on the conflict, pitting Willem Dafoe (as Sergeant Elias, mentor to Chris, the young soldier played by Charlie Sheen) against a fellow sergeant (played by Tom Berenger) in a dreadful battle for the platoon. It is, as Roger Ebert wrote, “A film that says…that before you can make any vast, sweeping statements about Vietnam, you have to begin by understanding the bottom line, which is that a lot of people went over there.”

2. BORN ON THE FOURTH OF JULY

He earned positive reviews for his role in Rain Man, but to many scribes, the Tom Cruise of the late 1980s was little more than the pretty face out in front of critically savaged hits like Cocktail — likable under the right circumstances, but lacking real depth. Oliver Stone saw something different, trusting Cruise with 1989’s Born on the Fourth of July — and Cruise repaid him by delivering the most harrowing performance to that point in his career, committing so deeply to his portrayal of paralyzed Vietnam vet Ron Kovic that, according to Stone, he came close to injecting himself with a solution that would have incurred temporary paralysis. Not all critics loved Fourth of July, but even those who had issues with the film were forced to take notice of Cruise’s performance — and for Vincent Canby of the New York Times, the end result was “the most ambitious nondocumentary film yet made about the entire Vietnam experience.”

1. SALVADOR

Stone’s films have received a combined 31 Academy Award nominations (and counting), but he picked up his first for his co-writing credit on the screenplay for Salvador, a 1986 war drama about a rather unlikable American journalist (James Woods, also nominated for an Oscar) who’s burned so many bridges that his only professional recourse is to head to El Salvador with his unemployed DJ buddy (Jim Belushi) to try and find stories in what they initially regard as a relatively inconsequential war. Like a lot of films that try and shine a light on war while shots are still being fired, Salvador bombed at the box office — but it found an appreciative audience with writers like Rob Gonsalves of eFilmCritic, who called it “One of Oliver Stone’s best films, and absolutely James Woods’ best performance.”

-Jeff Giles, Rotten Tomatoes, Jul 5 2012 [x]