Antiquityâs Greatest, and Gay, Hero
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Wracked by the cares of monarchy and waging endless wars, Alexander (Colin Farrell) enters his bedchamber to retire for the evening.
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one straight, punt-and-fumble encounter at 3 am 30 years ago was enough for me -- but I&#39;m quite aware of the image that goes with having the butch name of ALEXANDER!
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This year&#39;s opening ceremony to the Olympic Games in Athens was impressive for the mixture of allusions to antiquity and modern innovation.
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New Jersey Gov. Jim McGreevey&#39;s gay declaration of independence, when he advanced downstage to muse about his inner turmoil, brought an oddly Shakespearean turn to the national soap opera. The difference is that when Shakespeare&#39;s Richard ...
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Life & style: On the 40th anniversary of the decriminalisation of homosexuality, we revisit the appallingly repressive atmosphere of the Fifties and Sixties.
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His rags to riches story is the stuff of legend, while his personal life could well be the script of an ancient Greek tragedy.
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The story of modern humansâ final interactions with the extinct Homo erectus may have been revealed by research into the evolution of lice.
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SHIPKA, BulgariaA Bulgarian archaeologist has unearthed a 2,400-year-old golden mask in the tomb of an ancient Thracian king  a find he says is unrivalled in the study of classical antiquity.
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By Janet Caggiano, Richmond Times-Dispatch  Feb. 19--In first grade, Edwin S. Snead III saw George Washington as a larger-than-life superhero riding a white steed.   His view hasn't changed much in the last 70 years.
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Hero splashes love and death in ravishing colors
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Although he lived 2,300 years ago, Alexander the Great may have something to say about current American politics. Oliver Stone's "Alexander" has rekindled interest and prompted a wave of books, TV documentaries and magazine articles about the young warrior-king, who conquered most of the known world by leading his armies from Greece to the Middle East and across to Asia and India.
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âNovemberâ is a David Mamet play for people who donât like David Mamet. I cannot say I see this as a cause for rejoicing.
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Two disaster movies visit ancient history and the near future to tell disquietingly relevant stories
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One hundred and fifty years on, the Lincoln-Douglas debates enjoy the dubious status of myth. This searching and illuminating book does the great service of bringing thm back down to earth.
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Alexander the Great journeyed to Babylon. In Alexander, Oliver Stone made it only to babble-on. My favorite part of this bloated, colossal stink bomb is when a character literally expires during one of Alexander&#39;s
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&quot;The Line of Beauty,&quot; Alan Hollinghurst&#39;s lavish novel about a young gay man negotiating the confusions, delights and horrors of life in Thatcherite Britain in the mid-1980&#39;s
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LIKE the rings of Dante&#39;s &quot;Inferno,&quot; there are circles of gossip as defined, in their wispy way, as smoke rings. So consider the odd way that James E. McGreevey&#39;s announcement last week that he was gay and would step down as governor ...