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Actor's Studio (Sun. 8:30 p.m., ABC Television). Manuel Komroff's The Thousand-Dollar Bill...
...Author Komroff once before tried his hand at a novel set in Jerusalem in the time of Christ. In Two Thieves he told the story of the pair who were crucified with Jesus, but never mentioned Christ's name or presence. This time Christ is the central character...
...book thus touted is Manuel Komroff's In the Years of Our Lord (Harper; $2.50), a new novel about the life of Christ to add to the brief fiction shelf which includes Lew Wallace's Ben Hur (over 2,000,000 copies since 1880), George Moore's pale The Brook Kerith (1916), Bruce Barton's Rotarian The Man Nobody Knows (1925) and Sholem Asch's lush The Nazarene (1939). (Some would include Kenan's famed Vie de Jesus...
...Years of Our Lord first appeared serially in Esquire, in a setting of Esquire color or off-color cartoons. Komroff himself, like Sholem Asch, is not a Christian. He was born in Manhattan of Jewish parentage, is married to a Gentile, attends neither church nor synagogue but Ts described by friends as "deeply religious like Walt Whitman...
...Sample Komroff characterizations: Pilate as a genial, well-meaning Roman lawyer who is constantly having to cope with fanatics; Matthew as a tax collector so harried by his job that Christ's call comes as a welcome relief; Lazarus as a rich young Jewish cosmopolite whose death is caused by a chariot race he entered on the urging of his crony Pilate...