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GORE VIDAL AND BEN-HUR...
...just as new Hollywood accepts films with transvestites, men who act and think like women. In the '50s, gayness could be viewed as a social disease (in Tea and Sympathy) or with oblique rapture (in the torrid gaze of Stephen Boyd's Messala at Charlton Heston's Ben-Hur...
DIED. MIKLOS ROZSA, 88, Hungarian-born, classically trained creator of stirring Oscar-winning scores for movies like Spellbound, A Double Life and Ben-Hur; in Los Angeles...
...HUR. Sci-fi writer Thomas Disch (The Brave Little Toaster) vigorously adapts an epic of early Christian days, at Baltimore's Peabody Conservatory...
Voyager has always been scrupulous about releasing wide-screen films in "letter-box" format (masking the top and bottom of the screen to duplicate the breadth of the theatrical image), and this idea too is catching on. MGM is marketing lavish wide-screen editions of Doctor Zhivago and Ben- Hur, and 20th Century Fox will put out the Star Wars trilogy, as well as the recent smash Die Hard, in the full-frame format. Even E.T. was letter- boxed on disc, and Spielberg's earlier 1941, when it arrives on disc this summer, will be in wide screen and contain...