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  • 'Alexander': A Crying Sham (Oliver Stone's "Alexander" a bisexual crybaby)

    11/24/2004 4:10:44 AM PST · by jalisco555 · 113 replies · 3,569+ views
    Washington Post ^ | 11/24/04 | Stephen Hunter
    If you played a word-association game with "Alexander the Great," you'd probably come up with "conqueror," "king," "warrior," "legend," "despot," "wastrel" or "killer." Unfortunately, Oliver Stone has chosen to build his epic of the Macedonian military genius around a word highly unlikely to make the list: "crybaby." In Stone's view, this is a highly neurotic young man whose emotions, far from being repressed or disciplined as one would expect of a great soldier of the 4th century B.C., are worn on his sleeve, except, of course, that he doesn't have sleeves, the shirt still being two millennia down the road....