... herself. Check out this excerpt from a reviewish thing in the New York Sun of a biography of Heidi Fleiss:

An unexpected element enters the film almost from the start: There are a lot of birds around. And the first topic of conversation in the sit-down interview is how Alexander the Great returned from his conquests with exotic birds, which were then introduced as pets to the privileged classes.

"Are you comparing yourself to Alexander?" she is asked. The question is a non sequitur, but she gamely takes it up. "No," she replies. "Because I conquered the world when I was in my 20s and he was in his 30s and he's dead and I'm alive. ... I took the oldest profession on earth and did it better than anyone on earth."


It always amazes me how many folks don't see the incongruity between claims that "Alexander the Great brought back this or that" and "Alexander the Great died" ...