Word: deadly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When Phillip was born in the West Texas town of Kermit (pop. 7,000), doctors soon saw that nature had made a series of deadly mistakes. Milk could not reach the baby's stomach, because his gullet came to a dead end in the upper chest. He had no anal opening (the lower colon wound itself into another dead end). Furthermore, both kidneys were on the right side, and one did not work. Surgeons at nearby Odessa made a temporary opening into Phillip's stomach so he could be fed, and another opening in the lower bowel...
...sister (Cathy O'Donnell) in a pestilential dungeon. Ben-Hur is freed from the galley, taken to Rome and adopted by a Roman admiral (Jack Hawkins) whose life he has saved. As soon as possible, he goes back to Palestine, hears that his mother and sister are dead, enters against Messala in the chariot races and rides him into the ground. But Messala has his vengeance. With his dying breath he tells Ben-Hur that his mother and sister are alive, but are lepers. Heartbroken and crazed with hate, the hero sets out to raise a rebellion against Rome...
...through bit parts until he's ready for a starring role. He makes only two or three pictures a year. In television, they slap you into the starring role in a series, and you make 26 episodes right off the bat. If the series flops, you're dead. There isn't time to build a personality...
...Arena. It is an exciting, if exacting spectator sport to see a spirited logician in broken-field running (using the split-hair formation) tear through a platoon of Platonists or a squad of schoolmen. Russell puts living and dead philosophers in the same intellectual arena. Turning to 6th century B.C. Greece, for example, he respects Anaximander's intuition that man is biologically related to fish, but laughs at his injunction that therefore man should not eat fish. "Whether our brethren of the deep cherish equally delicate sentiments towards us is not recorded," Russell snuffles in a donnish gibe...
...convent, and to judge by all the meteorological hell that breaks loose, the earth is fleeing the solar system too. Anyway, pretty soon a couple of gypsies (Katina Paxinou and Walter Slezak) drag the heroine off to live in their filthy caravan, where she hears that her dragoon is dead. She renounces religion and gives herself to a gypsy prince (Vittorio Gassman...