Current Events, a Weekly Reader publication, October 29th, 2004
LOVE. BETRAYAL. CLASHING SWORDS. GLORY. DEATH. THOSE ARE THE ELEMENTS OF "ALEXANDER THE GREAT," OLIVER STONE'S NEW EPIC MOVIE STARRING COLIN FARRELL, ANTHONY HOPKINS, VAL KILMER, AND ANGELINA JOLIE. THE MOVIE RETELLS ONE OF THE GREATEST TALES OF ALL TIME. BELOW IS THE REAL STORY OF ALEXANDER, WHO CAME TO BE KNOWN AS "THE GREAT" IN HIS SHORT LIFETIME. King Philip was angry--hotter than the blazing sun that shone down on the baked plains of ancient Macedonia that April day in 342 B.C. "Who can tame him?" the king shouted at the men in the courtyard. No one volunteered, Bucephalus, the huge and...
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