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This Day in Pop Culture for November 18

There have been six different movie versions of the film Ben Hur, but the most famous is Charlton Heston’s version that was ...
It’s about much more than simple entertainment, they said. — -- “Ben-Hur,” the epic 1959 tale, is coming back to the big screen today, this time re-imagined for a new generation of moviegoers.
You name it, Ken Valles has it, if it’s related to Ben-Hur. Check it out Saturday at the Ute Pass Cultural Center. Photo by Pat Hill An ancient tale that remains relevant today, “Ben-Hur: A Tale of ...
Of all the film genres, the epic is one of the hardest to define. Must it be a period piece? Must the plot center on a hero? Why is “East of Eden” (1955), with its relatively meager runtime of 117 ...
In 1971, when CBS broadcast the 1959 film “Ben-Hur” on television for the first time, more than 85 million people tuned in to view this Hollywood spectacular of friendship, betrayal, revenge, ...