![]() ![]() After a few odd jobs, a failing marriage, and a series of incidents that included jail time in Mexico following a drug bust, Stone managed to direct his first feature, Seizure (1974). Interestingly enough, Martin Scorsese, a former alumnus, was one of his professors at New York University. In the late 1960s, Stone was amongst scores of young Americans who joined film school. He ended his tour of duty with the Bronze Star and the Purple Heart. In 1967, Stone enlisted in the US Army and insisted on combat duty in Vietnam. ![]() Later his decision to leave Yale University at the age of 18 in 1965 to teach English to high school students in Vietnam only added to the kind of material that makes for a good film. He spent his anxiety-filled growing up years between divorced parents, a French mother and an American stockbroker father. ![]()
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