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Controversy over Oliver Stoneâs depiction of Alexander the Great as a bisexual returns the filmmaker to the familiar role of historical revisionist.
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This past Sunday, my report on the rebirth of the electric car aired on âCBS News Sunday Morning.â You can see it here. CBS gave me a juicy long time for the segmentâbut the truth is, there was enough good material to fill a miniseries. Like the interview with auto-industry superstar Bob Lutz, now a top [...].
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When I compare the current attack of the Olympics with the original Games in ancient Greece, a theme emerges. Back then, athletes were occasionally disemboweled and those who stepped over the line were flogged.
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LOS ANGELES  - To film "Alexander,"  which opens nationwide Wednesday, director Oliver Stone took  his cue from the biopic's subject, Alexander the Great, and set  out to conquer several locations around the world.
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In the year 30BC, Octavian Caesar, the future Emperor Augustus, arrived in Egypt in pursuit of his rival, Mark Antony, whom he had defeated a few months previously at the Battle of Actium.
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Oliver Stone's epic Alexander enters the US box office at number six,  taking just $13.5m (Â£7m).
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Oliver Stoneâs eagerly awaited $160m blockbuster, Alexander, opened in America last week to a decidedly mixed critical response.
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An ancient battle. A little-known director. An R rating. No major movie stars.
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Alexandria, the Egyptian  coastal city where Cleopatra had love affairs with Julius  Caesar and Mark Anthony, is trying to regain some of its old  glory as a tourism destination for European and Arab elites.
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Greek lawyers are threatening to sue the Hollywood makers of the new film Alexander the Great for depicting the king as bisexual. Oliver Stone&#39;s casting of Colin Farrell as
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In 360 B.C. the Greek philosopher Plato described an island he called Atlantis. Now contradicting new evidence claims the fabled city-state was based on a real place.
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Wild ambition and great achievement sometimes carry the seeds of their own destruction -- a proposition that is both the central subject and dangerous stylistic temptation of Oliver Stone&#39;s vast, riveting, madly audacious movie biography &quot;Alexander.
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Oliver Stone will release a third version of his epic film Alexander, with a running time of three hours and 40 minutes.
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Tycho:  With a couple days placed between this post and the release of the Bioshock demo, I feel far more comfortable discussing it.  You know what I do, now:  for example, you know that the Playable Intro as a storytelling mechanism has been refined to a ridiculous degree.  You've felt the jolt of voyeurism, peering into human lives via found audio.  And, perhaps most importantly, you know the dangers that plasmids pose to the young.
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If movies are all about the audience identifying with the people on the screen, then Oliver Stone accomplishes the job with &quot;Alexander,&quot; his sprawling, three-hour bio-epic about the Macedonian conqueror of the ancient world.
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In the wake of Oliver Stone's epic movie about the Macedonian conqueror's life -- and the pounding it received from critics and theater-goers alike -- we at LiveScience believe a reassessment of the great ...
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