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...Rhodes Scholarships are endowed through the will of Cecil Rhodes, a British philanthropist, who founded the honor...
According to the Rhodes Trust, these qualifications are directed at fulfilling Cecil Rhodes’ hope that Rhodes Scholars should “esteem the performance of public duties as their highest...
...CECIL FIELDER SALARY: $9.2 MILLION 1995 Detroit Tigers The slugger got a big raise and hit 31 homers, but Detroit finished 26 games out of first...
...Cecil B. De Mille, a preacher's son but with some Jewish ancestry, had scored a titanic hit with "The Ten Commandments" in 1923 - to its time, the top-grossing film after "The Birth of a Nation." Four years later, the extravagant auteur went from Old to New Testament. Another hit, thanks to De Mille's showmanship and expert marketing, and a color sequence for Easter Sunday, with Jesus surrounded by enough doves for a John Woo movie. "The King of Kings" played around the world for decades after it was released, until the proselytizing efforts of the Church...
...sequel in North American box office history, Gibson's supposed to be a panderer, pimping Christ's suffering to audiences who didn't realize they needed to see their personal Redeemer get scourged for the longer part of two hours. You tell me, Andy: How many millions did Cecil B. DeMille make off his silent-film smash The King of Kings? How many billions do the movie and TV moguls make each year portraying, in a manner that doesn't even attempt to be edifying, human suffering, mutilation and humiliation-for cheap thrills or cheaper laughs...