Ah, there’s the Oliver Stone we all know. When it was announced that Stone was making a movie about George W. Bush to be released on the eve of the Presidential election, many people scratched their heads. How would he take on our most prickly and controversial Commander in Chief since Nixon? But the more I see of W., the more interested I get. Sure, Stone and screenwriter Stanley Weiser could very well make mincemeat of the historical record, but hell- that’s par for the course with Stone. Yet I like the chutzpah he shows here, using a strange cocktail of fact, conjecture and outright fabrication to attempt to figure out what makes Bush tick. Moreover, he’s actually done it in a context that looks like a rollicking entertainment instead of a muckraking screed. More and more, it’s looking like I’ll be there opening weekend.