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Topic: 100 Years Of Ben Hur
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Osi Osgood
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From: Mountian Home, ID.
Registered: Jul 2005
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posted May 27, 2009 11:28 PM
Quite true Graham.
I own the Derann scope stereo feature, (slight imperfection in printing, but not distracting, except for a perfectionist like me, grrrr.)
Most of those epics I tend to fall asleep in, and to an extant, I do with this ones LONG romance scenes between Ben Hur and the former servant girl. (I once thought of omitting almost all of those at one time, but thankfully, I didn't), but this one actually does flow fairly well.
Actually, we should say 100 years of Ben Hur, as the silent version of the 1920's was a big hit, and in the early days of cinema, (somewhere in between 1900 and 1910) there was a first version of Ben Hur ...
... and to top it off, Groucho made a great joke of this in the "Monkey Business Promo" (a rare promo with a five minute scene that wasn't even in the movie, but was mostly lifted from one of they're stage successes, "I'll Say She Is.").
Groucho ...
" I was once in a two person stage play of Ben Hur.
She played Ben ... and I "played" her!
-------------------- "All these moments will be lost in time, just like ... tears, in the rain. "
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Osi Osgood
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Posts: 10204
From: Mountian Home, ID.
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posted June 03, 2009 07:10 PM
I could see Moses (supposes that roses are noses ... ACK! ehem!) , when we see him someday, first complaining ...
"Did you see that guy that was playing me, yeah you, over there, come here!"
(Heston walks over)
"What was with that long beard and that slicked back white hair?! Do you really think I had time to put on hair gel every day, dealing with those irritating people?!"
(He really did put up with a lot, especially that Edward G Robinson "Jew" (I was going to say "Egyptian", but he was a Jewish task master, no deference to the Jewish race) ... "What are ya going ta do NOW Moses? Nyah nyah!") [ June 03, 2009, 11:11 PM: Message edited by: Osi Osgood ]
-------------------- "All these moments will be lost in time, just like ... tears, in the rain. "
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