![]() The film was based on the experiences of Billy Hayes, a young American busted at the Turkish border with hashish and sentenced to life for his crime. ![]() He talks in an entertaining, very compelling voice about his rise in the seventies, virtually overnight to becoming both an Academy Award and Golden Globe winning screen writer for Midnight Express (1978). Stone tells his story of his journey through surviving the jungles of Viet Nam, his conflict with his father, and his up and down and soaring ride through the very different jungles of Hollywood. “Chasing the Light” is an astonishing book, so why would I be sad when I finished? I wanted more, much more. Putting it down was just never an option, and one day after opening the book, sadly, I was finished. ![]() The moment I opened the package containing my copy of Oliver Stone’s new book “Chasing the Light”, a memoir, I devoured it. ![]()
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