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...time money earners. (To be sure, constantly rising ticket prices skew this list. Interestingly, in Box Office Mojo?s ranking of real-dollar all-timers, ?The Passion,? at #51, is only the fifth top-grossing religious epic, following the 1956 ?The Ten Commandments? at #5, the 1959 ?Ben-Hur? at 13, ?The Robe? at 43 and ?The Bells of St. Mary...
...MOVIES ARE THE NEW EPICS. The side-by-side race in The Fast and the Furious is a modern Ben-Hur chariot race. Instead of re-creating ancient Rome and bossing around thousands of extras in togas, directors get to re-create a strip of the San Diego Freeway and wreck lots of cars. That's the majesty of being in charge of an action film. In Hollywood you're not a true creator unless you can destroy stuff...
...MARTHA SCOTT, 90, actress who originated the role of Emily in Thornton Wilder's Our Town onstage and repeated it in the 1940 film, for which she received an Oscar nomination; in Los Angeles. She also played Charlton Heston's mother in two biblical epics, The Ten Commandments and Ben-Hur...
AILING. CHARLTON HESTON, 78, imposing star of such Hollywood epics as Ben-Hur and The Ten Commandments, conservative political spokesman and, since 1998, president of the National Rifle Association, who revealed that his doctors have said he has symptoms consistent with Alzheimer's disease. In a taped address announcing his struggle with Alzheimer's, Heston lamented, "For an actor, there is no greater loss than the loss of his audience. I can part the Red Sea, but I can't part with...
...decade when Hollywood directors first traveled to distant climes, hoping to bring a foreign flavor to their pictures. Of the '50s' ten Oscar winners, five - "An American in Paris," "Around the World in Eighty Days," "The Bridge on the River Kwai," "Gigi" and "Ben-Hur" - were shot abroad. Remember too that Marilyn and Jayne weren't the only sex symbols crashing in the '50s; it was also the time of Sophia Loren, Gina Lollobrigida, Brigitte Bardot. And the movies' all-time entrancer, an Anglo-Dutch princess named Edda Kathleen van Heemstra Hepburn-Ruston - Audrey Hepburn...