`Alexander'.

From: Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service | Date: November 24, 2004| Author: Moore, Roger | Copyright information

Byline: Roger Moore

"All men reach and fall, reach and fall."

So proclaims Ptolemy (Anthony Hopkins), pharaoh of Egypt, lieutenant to Alexander the Great, and Alexander's biographer in "Alexander."

He could be talking about Oliver Stone. Oliver the Great has a great fall with this epic, a three-hour march notable for skipping much of the heroic and barbaric in Alexander to dwell on his bisexuality.

Not important, historians tell us. Sex ...

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