Word: laeta
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...script follows what is known about Alexander, who left the Ionian peninsula to sweep the fabled Babylon and India into his ambitious embrace. But Stone, who wrote the film with Christopher Kyle and Laeta Kalogridis, sees the old Greek fables as horror stories, Olympus as Hades and the Macedonian royal family--led by one-eyed Philip (Val Kilmer) and his spiteful bride Olympias (Angelina Jolie)--drowning in lust and supernal rancor. In this realm, the king is the last man conscious at an orgy, just as Stone is still drunk on the pricey, preposterous adventure of moviemaking...
...Joan of Arc) was not some great saint who had visions from God but rather an ordinary person who's just right to be an action-adventure hero." --SCREENWRITER LAETA KALOGRIDIS, ON THE SUBJECT OF HER NEW SCRIPT, IN NOMINE DEI, WHICH WAS SOLD LAST WEEK TO PRODUCER JOEL SILVER (LETHAL WEAPON) FOR A REPORTED...
...next time you go into the University Museum, watch out. Loxosceles laeta may be waiting...
...Loxosceles laeta -a poisonous South American spider-has been the object of an intensive search and destroy campaign by the museum staff since 1962, and no one's sure that they've gotten them...
...bite of Loxosceles laeta (laeta, by the way, is Latin for happy, joyous, or pleasant) causes a local ulcer and deterioration of blood and muscle tissue. The condition may spread through the body. Laeta bites are not usually fatal, Levi said...