[Antiquity] Alexander the Great: Man's Man

Noted Classicist Michael Musto provides an in-depth analysis of Oliver Stone's Alexander the Great for the New York Post. Okay, so we have two groups of people here: those who believe that homosexuality was unknown in the ancient world, and those who believe that Oliver Stone would never ever play fast and loose with the truth. I know we live in the Age of Self-Delusion, but aren't we reaching some law-of-nature constraint here?

Also caught The Making of Alexander the Great on HBO...Angelina Jolie, who plays Alexander's mother Olympias, gave the best quote: "You know, some people thought she was crazy, but I could see myself acting that way." Honey, I think that was their point.

The scenes with Jolie looked fabulous, as well as those with Val Kilmer, who plays Philip. Anthony Hopkins — as Ptolemy — seems less hammy than usual. Farrell...no real sense of his performance, I'm afraid, and Jared Leto, as Hephaestion, his "we're-just-friends," looked not fully detoxed from Requiem for a Dream.

If you're keeping score, Bagoas ges a full-on kiss, as well as some unnamed soldier The relationship with Hephaestion is simply too intense to be trivialized by a mere physical act. Not so his relationship with Roxane (Rosario Dawson), who gets the full-body treatment.