Victor Davis Hanson: Gay Old Times? Oliver Stone perpetuates a classical myth

National Review ^ | December 15, 2004 | Victor Davis Hanson

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I believe it was posted that the Leo DiCaprio version of Alexander was canceled.

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The other Alexander the Great movie will be directed by a guy named Baz Luhrmann. If you loved what he did with Moulin Rouge you'll probable love his Alexander.

Personally when my wife and I saw Moulin Rouge I walked out about the first time they broke into a Madonna song.

Fortunately for wife we were watching it on pay-per-view so I just walked down the hall and surfed on Free Republic and she didn't have to walk home from the theater : )

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Can't possibly be worse than "The Day After Tomorrow."

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That work and commerce are honorable endeavors when honest are indeed pretty unusual and therefore abnormal points of view from a historical viewpoint. But I'll stick with them anyway.

Aboslutely. And it concerns me that so many people seem to be drifting back toward the naive attitudes that don't understand why things like profit margins are necessary for investments and business to thrive. They are falling back toward the idea that profits are somehow "stealing" because the middleman isn't doing any "work" to "earn" them. In fact, I think it's the source of a lot of the hostility toward white color workers and small businesses in general and the wealthy, in particular and the whole idea that they don't deserve their money because they are simply taking it away from the people who do the real work. Ugh. That's the Cargo Cult mentality.

I've read Tom's book. As usual, excellent.

So I guess I'm not telling you anything that you don't already know, then. He writes good stuff. His books on Cosmic Justice and Visions are excellent, too.