Word: pontius
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Peter Graves, of Mission: Impossible, is St. Luke. Sometime MGM musical Star Jane Powell is Pontius Pilate's wife. Actor Harve Presnell, his 6 ft. 4 in. frame draped with a mini-toga, is a troubled centurion. And there, amid crosses, a sepulcher, live olive trees and fake grass on Stage 4 in NBC's Burbank studio, is the real superstar of the $150,000 Easter special, waiting for the 40-minute semi-rock "cantata" to conclude. At a signal from the producer, the tape rolls. Oral Roberts beams a broad, benign smile into the camera...
...some Western observers, the scene stirred thoughts of Pontius Pilate deciding the fates of Jesus and Barabbas. "Do you want Mujib freed?" cried Pakistan President Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, at a rally of more than 100,000 supporters in Karachi. The crowd roared its assent, as audiences often do when subjected to Bhutto's powerful oratory. Bowing his head, the President answered: "You have relieved me of a great burden...
...right down to a barbecue for 1,500 on Lamar Hunt's Circle T Ranch. While the wealthy Latin Americans take the 5,000-acre spread in stride, their home-grown counterparts are visibly awed. Drawls one weathered wrangler: "Ole Lamar got so much money, he coulda greased Pontius Pilate's palm and got Jesus Christ off with three weeks on the county correction farm...
...show opens, a fortress-like curtain wall leans dramatically backward to form a sharply raked stage, bodies clinging to it as to the sides of a sinking ship. When Pontius Pilate appears, it is through a doorway modeled after the head of Caesar. As it telescopes open, bearing a throbbing resemblance to an Excedrin ad, it reveals six sets of eyes. The high priests descend on a bone bridge that looks as if it had been left over from one of Alley Oop's dinosaurs. During Christ's prayers to God in Gethsemane, a universe box is lowered over...
African Leader Maurice Lalubi (Woody Strode) is a world-famous apostle of nonviolence-what the Italian film makers choose to dub a Black Jesus. The fascist regime of his country hurriedly runs him to earth. Brought before the local Pontius Pilate (Jean Servais), Lalubi is cast into jail with a thief (Franco Citti), and tortured with nails driven into his hands. After a series of graphic humiliations, he is stabbed in the side by a soldier and dies. Organ music purls throughout to underline both the literal symbolism and the unadorned wretchedness of the performances. Two exceptions must be noted...