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To: BigBull who wrote (4290)	12/19/2002 4:26:22 PM
From: Ilaine	Respond to of 6901

I need to send her a Christmas card or something. Before she dies. I have a bad habit of not sending Christmas cards.

To: BigBull who wrote (4290)	12/20/2002 5:16:37 PM
From: Climber	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 6901

Dueling Alexanders: story.news.yahoo.com Oliver Stone on a Roll with Alexander Epic Fri Dec 20 By Michael Fleming NEW YORK (Variety) - Oliver Stone (news)'s costly "Alexander the Great" won a key battle late Thursday in its race to beat a rival project from Baz Luhrmann (news) to the big screen. Warner Bros. is closing a deal to become the domestic distributor of Stone's epic, a move that allows producer Intermedia to greenlight the picture for a June start. Irishman Colin Farrell (news) ("Minority Report") will star as the Macedonian conqueror. That gives the film a good chance to start well before the Luhrmann project, which is being financed by DreamWorks and Universal and would star Leonardo DiCaprio (news). Both films are the passion projects for a lot of high-powered filmmakers and executives, but they are also among the most expensive films ever attempted. The location for Stone's film wasn't being revealed, nor was the size of Warner's contribution to a budget sources said is north of $100 million but under $150 million. Stone's film has been the underdog since the producer Dino De Laurentiis said in August that Luhrmann and DiCaprio would reunite in Morocco next January to shoot Ted Tally's script, complete with cooperation and troops from Morocco's King Mohammed VI. But a financing shakeup that saw Fox replaced by DreamWorks, Luhrmann's attention to the Broadway bow of "La Boheme" and DiCaprio's reunion in May with "Gangs of New York" director Martin Scorsese (news) for the Howard Hughes biopic "The Aviator" now put that film's start date more realistically at fall, at the earliest. Meanwhile Stone and Intermedia were comparatively quiet. The director spent the last year working exclusively on scouting and rewriting a script. The result, said insiders, is as strong as anything the Oscar winner ("Midnight Express," "Born on the Fourth of July," "Platoon") has written. Farrell won the role of the charismatic conqueror six months ago after doing a persuasive and extensive screen test with Stone.