Eric D. Snider, the freelance film critic who says he was banned and subsequently threatened by Paramount Pictures after publishing an article — "I Was a Junket Whore" — about attending the studio's Seattle press junket for Oliver Stone's World Trade Center, now says one of the writers on the same junket made up quotes for Stone in a feature about the movie. Snider says he tape recorded the same interview with Stone used by Tim Nasson of Wild About Movies, and Nasson made up a number of quotes for Stone.

NASSON'S VERSION: "A lot of people, most people, think I am this left wing nutcase. And when they hear that I chose to direct this picture all the bells and whistles start sounding. 'What agenda is he going to bring to this picture?' they ask.

STONE'S ACTUAL STATEMENTS: Actually, Stone didn't say any of that. In regard to his politics, he said: "I consider myself an independent, a radical independent if you want, or whatever you want to use. Centrist. I'm a conservative in some ways, I'm a liberal in others." The stuff about "bells and whistles" and "agenda" — not in the interview. Pure fabrication.

NASSON'S VERSION: "It just so happens that a lot of the stories I am attracted to, most, in fact, are based on true events and real people."

CLOSEST THING I COULD FIND IN THE ACTUAL INTERVIEW: "I've generally worked a lot with real subjects, and I work closely with them, sit in the same room with them and listen. It goes back and forth on the set."

NASSON: "And what I say is 'This is America.' Every citizen, of which I am one, has the right to speak up, whenever he wants to."

WHAT STONE REALLY SAID: "I consider myself John Q. Citizen. I just don't consider myself a director, I consider myself to have the rights of a citizen. I have the right to speak out as you do."

NASSON: "The fact is, in between my pictures, my political comments may be picked up and played out in the media. But my comments have nothing at all to do the way I direct any movie."

ACTUAL QUOTE: "I think my problem is I probably have been outspoken politically in between movies, and they confuse that with the movies."

NASSON: "I dare anyone to watch 'JFK' and find anything in it that would remotely paint that picture as an agenda picture. I took no sides."

ACTUAL QUOTE: "If you look at 'JFK' and 'Nixon,' they defy type. 'Nixon' was attacked by the right wing before they saw it, but in fact it's very empathetic to the character, the humanity of Nixon. 'JFK' is neither left nor right, it's a question mark, it's a radical question mark."

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