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Article: Interpretive controversy swirls around historic movie subject.
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- The Orlando Sentinel (Orlando, FL)
- Article date:
- November 11, 2004
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Byline: Roger Moore
The face of this fall is Greek _ Macedonian, to be exact.
He's young, handsome, maybe even gay. And 2,300 years old.
Blond or brunet, gay or straight, Homeric hero or paranoid genocidal conqueror, Alexander the Great turns up everywhere this month, in bookstores, in games, on video and on cable, where The History Channel and The Discovery Channel are presenting documentaries.
And on Nov. 24, Oliver Stone's "Alexander" comes to a cineplex near you.
Alexander was a historic colossus "who aimed for the heights, and reached them, conquering much of the world and spreading the reach of Western civilization," ...