Blame

There's an old saying, "The man who smiles when things go wrong has thought of someone to blame it on." If this is true, then director Oliver Stone must have been smiling like the proverbial Cheshire cat when asked why his film Alexander the Great was such a flop.

He said it flopped because Christian fundamentalists conspired against the film because it had a bisexual character. And he must be right, because in no way could such a renowned, Oscar-winning director ever possibly make a bad movie.

The fact that films such as The Bird Cage, The Philadelphia Story, and As Good As it Gets were commercial successes in spite of their gay themes must be pure coincidence.