NY Post - Alexander and its content dealing with homosexuality

[Quetzal]

Alexander and its content dealing with homosexuality

November 18, 2004 -- IS Oliver Stone's $150 million epic "Alexander" too gay for mainstream audiences? Stone, who previously stirred controversy with "JFK" and "Natural Born Killers," is on the hot seat again with his biopic about the bisexual Macedonian emperor, played by Colin Farrell, which opens next Wednesday.
As Alexander the Great, Farrell speaks softly and sports a blond pageboy and mini-toga, looking a bit like something out of Queer Eye for the Macedonian Guy.

In scenes that may raise eyebrows with some action-movie fans, the Irish actor kisses two men - a Macedonian soldier and a hunky topless Persian castrato named Bogoas, who becomes his lover - full on the mouth.

http://www.nypost.com/entertainment/34381.htm

[Anakin Skywalker]

1. Good! Anything to Piss Off the Rightwing..

is fine by me!

[Tandalayo_Scheisskopf]

2. Oh man...

I am tired of rags like the Post stoking these fires.

[RubyDuby in GA]

3. Well I wasn't planning on seeing this, but

if it's going to piss off the right-wing fundies, I'll go and buy two tickets for myself.

Anything for the Cause :)

[ronnykmarshall]

4. DAMN! They toned it down however!

http://www.femalefirst.co.uk/celebrity/show-art.php?news_unid=847


This sucks ...... I'm not a big epic movie fan ... but to see Colin Farrell get down a dirty with a guy is worth the ticket price for me.

[Terran]

5. Good. It sounds like

the movie at least hints at the historicity of Alexander's bisexuality (and in fact I believe the facts indicate he was probably emotionally homosexual). He had wives and fathered children, but that was largely for politcal gain, not love. IMO.

Bogoas is the subject and narrator of Mary Renault's great novel "The Persian Boy".