This Week’s News Nuggets

A Man's Man: Alexander The Great's gayness, or lack thereof, is categorically not what Oliver Stone's film is all about. At least according to Colin Farrell. Alexander's bisexuality, while part and parcel of the history, will not become a major theme of the film. "There may be details of Alexander's sexuality in the film but Oliver wanted to portray the figure accurately and didn't want to ignore facts surrounding his sexual antics," said Farrell. "There was no term for it then, it was just part of the culture, what happened was older men, 50-70-years-old, used to spend the evening with younger men and impart their knowledge to them, and then they'd go to bed together. It's not a gay film, it's not a straight film