Alexander the Flaming...

This case embodies all that is Armen (lawsuit, international controversy, ancient history, entertainment, Los Angeles sports, denials of latent homosexuality...ok maybe not the last one but I've had my moments).

A group of Greek lawyers are threatening to sue Warner Bros. and Oliver Stone for "alleging" in the new movie that Alexander was bi. They want a caveat in the credits that the movie is pure fiction and is not based on "official documents." Here's the clincher of their argument:

"We cannot come out and say that (former U.S.) President John F. Kennedy was a shooting guard for the Los Angeles Lakers basketball team and so Warner cannot come out and say Alexander was gay," Varnakos said.

Uh hum. Interesting point. But what if JFK hung around with the Lakers (and until 1960, it would have been the Minnesota Lakers), shot around at practice with the Lakers, sat on the Lakers' bench, formed one half of the dynamic duo of "Hephaestion to Alexander for the dunk," occasionally seen coming out of the Lakers tent...anyway you get the idea. Really guys, a lot of your ancient heroes liked boys...and some of them were liked as boys. Macedonians spoke a form of Greek, but they were shunned by the other city-states...could it be they were not as Greek as say Athens and Sparta? I bet these Greek lawyers have a firm answer to that one as well.