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...million Total take for Ben-Hur, 1959's most popular movie...
...plot--a bright misfit goes undercover to save his people from foreign domination--it's pure Mulan. You'll also find echoes of Cecil B. DeMille's 1956 essay in panoramic kitsch, The Ten Commandments (including the climactic Red Sea parting), and its Oscar-laden sibling, the 1959 Ben-Hur (including the chariot race). All are about two young men, raised as brothers, whose proud convictions set them on a moral and political collision course...
...praise and profits soared, a conflict was building between Mayer and his brilliant production chief Thalberg. An intense perfectionist who never lost his schoolboy looks, Thalberg oversaw MGM's record-breaking hits: The Big Parade, Ben Hur, Anna Christie, Grand Hotel, Mutiny on the Bounty and The Wizard of Oz. Thalberg was increasingly resistant to playing Andy to Mayer's Judge Hardy. By 1936, Mayer was the highest-salaried executive in America, breaking the million-dollar barrier. Thalberg felt entitled to an equal share. For his part, L.B. had begun to resent the prevailing opinion that Thalberg was the genius...
...pretty sad that I have to choose my classes not based on my interest but on the cost of the textbooks," Hur says. "[The high price] is limiting flexibility of choice and basically goes against Harvard's idea of education being open to all quarters...
...student came in and said they wanted help meeting costs for the books in a class, we'd be happy to talk about that." He added that the problem in handling books in financial aid is rooted in the wide variance between book costs per student--from Hur...