"Never Complain and Never Explain."

Those wise words are usually ascribed to Benjamin Disraeli, but whoever said them ought to whisper them in the ear of filmmaker Olvier Stone who is now blaming the failure of his soporific epic Alexander on… you will be ‘astonished’ to hear… “raging fundamentalism” in the US South. Oh, well, I guess he’s trying to drum up box office in Britain with a little fashionable America-bashing. He’d be better served cutting about an hour from the movie. (HT: Scaramouche)