Not That There's Anything Wrong With That...

Oliver Stone's new movie about Alexander the Great is stirring up some controversy in Greece:

A group of Greek lawyers are threatening to sue Warner Bros film studios and Oliver Stone, director of the widely anticipated film "Alexander," for suggesting Alexander the Great was bisexual.

The lawyers have already sent an extrajudicial note to the studio and director demanding they include a reference in the title credits saying his movie is a fictional tale and not based on official documents of the life of the Macedonian ruler.

"We are not saying that we are against gays but we are saying that the production company should make it clear to the audience that this film is pure fiction and not a true depiction of the life of Alexander," Yannis Varnakos, who spearheads the campaign by 25 lawyers, told Reuters on Friday.

I find it funny how these people try to suggest that there's nothing wrong with homosexuality, but they don't want their hero associated with it. Hollywood types will go out of their way to support gay rights, but bristle with indignation if they are "outed".

Seinfeld did a show where George and Jerry were inadvertently "outed" by a college newspaper writer to mistook them for gays. Their protestations were hilarious as they furiously denied the allegation while at the same time trying not to appear politically incorrect with the comment "not that there's anything wrong with that".

Given the way Stone plays with the facts in his previous movies like "Nixon" and "JFK", I'm not sure I'd put much stock in anything he said. However, I recently watched a History Channel miniseries on Alexander, and apparently most historians believe he did in fact "swing from both sides of the plate". Who knows. It'll be entertaining to hear the accusations and defenses on both sides of this argument.