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GREEK LAWYERS MAY TRY TO HALT SCREENING OF ALEXANDER Thursday, December 2 2004 
Warner
Bros.
has
agreed
to
screen
Oliver
Stone's
Alexander
to
a
group
of
Greek
lawyers
who
have
threatened
to
seek
a
court
order
to
block
the
screening
of
the
film
in
Greece
if
they
determine
that
it
deviates
from
"academic
truths"
about
Alexander
the
Great's
sexuality.
The
film
is
due
to
open
in
Greece
on
Friday.
In
an
interview
with
Reuters
Television,
one
of
the
lawyers,
Kostas
Koutsoulelos,
commented:
"If
there
are
these
scenes
referring
(more)OLIVER STONE SLAMS DVD'S Wednesday, December 1 2004 
Although
Oliver
Stone's
19-year-old
son
Sean
has
shot
the
behind-the-scenes
documentary
for
Alexander
and
while
the
video
package
is
likely
to
include
an
examination
of
the
actual
life
of
the
Greek
conqueror
and
other
informative
material,
Stone
himself
has
indicated
that
he
is
not
at
all
enthusiastic
about
the
coming
of
age
of
DVDs.
Video
Store
magazine
quotes
him
as
saying
during
a
recent
press
event,
"It's
the
end
of
movie-movies
the
way
we
know
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Oliver Stone has accepted much of the acrimonious criticism that was heaped on his $150-million epic Alexander. Speaking in Sydney, Australia, where the film opens on Jan. 20, Stone said, "I still think it's a beautiful movie, but Alexander deserves better than I gave him." Reporting on the director's remarks, the Sydney Daily Telegraph said that in an interview Stone admitted that "the movie was too long, didn't tell the story of Alexander the Great very well and was too focused on outing the ancient Greek hero."There was clear resistance to his homosexuality. It became the headline to the movie," Stone was quoted as saying. "They called him Alexander the Gay. That's horribly discriminatory, but the film simply didn't open in the Bible Belt [of the U.S. South]. Kids weren't comfortable with men who hugged or a king who cried and expressed tenderness."
