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Oliver Stone gets testy at reception

Promoting his Showtime series “Untold History of the United States,” Oliver Stone sparred with his hosts during a posh townhouse reception, trading barbs with what he called “the skeptical Upper East Side of Manhattan.”

An ornery Stone came to support Coralie Charriol Paul’s nonprofit REACT to FILM, which was hosting a cocktail at Christine and Richard Mack’s gargantuan townhouse off Fifth Avenue for its founding members, including Nicole Mellon, Kiara Kabukuru, Kelly Rutherford, actor Evangelo Bousis, Eva Lorenzotti, Ilona Quasha, Jennifer Creel, Marcia Mishaan, Alvina Collardeau Fuchs, Inga Rubenstein and Amanda Ross.

The stone-throwing started when Coralie’s husband, Dennis Paul, introduced Oliver by saying that the RTF high school course teaches students that directors like Stone are biased and criticized Stone for his relationship with Hugo Chavez. Stone quipped back, irritated by the Chavez remark, that every fact in “Untold” had been verified and fact-checked.

The night came to an end when host Mack questioned Stone’s treatment of JFK in the series.

Stone scoffed at the suggestion that he was selective in the JFK he depicted, telling Mack it’s “all in the DVD set and my 600-page companion book” as he headed out, leaving a signed copy for Mack on the entrance table.