CHRISTOPHER STEVENS: It s impossible that anyone, least of all the vain monarch, ever looked at Cromwell and thought, In 500 years that bloke is going to be a sex symbol.
The Frogs have been getting uppity over Joaquin Phoenix’s depiction of Napoleon, in Ridley Scott’s new blockbuster. Their historians point out the real Boney didn’t participate in cavalry charges, fire cannonballs at the pyramids, and nor was he present in Paris at the execution of Marie-Antoinette – in October 1793 Napoleon was hundreds of miles away, earning distinction at the Siege of Toulon. Historians may also wish to note that Joaquin Phoenix keeps his hat on indoors and doesn’t bother wit