It looks like there’s going to be an Alexander the Great movie coming to
theaters around Christmas 2003.

The good news is that the part of Alexander will be played by Heath Ledger.
The bad news is that the part of the director will be played by Oliver Stone.

Ledger is a brilliant choice. Right age, right talent, right looks.
As for Stone… considering his total disregard for historical fact,
I shudder to think what he’ll do with this one. Particularly since
if anything, we Americans know less about Alexander than we do about
JFK or Nixon.

I learned a new metric unit of measurement today:

milliHelen

the amount of physical beauty required to launch one ship; 1/1000 of a Helen

Lord knows that one’s going to come in handy.