There is a feud. (As there have been in varying combinations before, but this one appears to have lasted.)

I find that refreshingly honest. Better to admit your ignorance than to falsely claim knowledge you do not have. (And I actually remember the quote cited by candyoh.)

I am vaguely familiar with that site and am under the impression that everything on there is pretty much entirely made up (not that it might not be occasionally correct by chance/accident).

No - Jesus is in Ben-Hur a lot (but never seen from the front).

I think in the U.S. it might fall into that category of "well-known cult classic" - a recognized name but not necessarily a big fan base. (Of course, that might apply to all too many books - I wonder how many modern kids have actually read The Wind in the Willows, for example.)

In the U.S. any level of college instructor, even if not a full professor, is generally referred to in non-formal situations as a professor. Canada might be different. (I know Britain is - professor is a rare and coveted title there.)

The young Aykroyd would probably have liked the line also. Perhaps the death of his close friend Belushi (albeit under completely different circumstances) made him more senstive about death.

They all look alike to me (except the mentioned-but-not pictured Bloom, who is definitely different), but I can't figure out why it is a big deal.

I kind of got into an argument with someone the last time this came up, so I don't want a lengthy back and forth, but here are my thoughts.

I expected "Literary Character Last Words" to be all actual last words (and then three of the five were, although not the first one selected, so I knew from the start they might not be).

My favorite clip that I found on an old VHS tape is a two-second moment of Sunday Night with David Sanborn and Jools Holland (presumably taped by/on behalf of my father) - "Welcome to our first show of the new year. Happy nineteen eighty-" (Research suggests 1989, as it was a very short-lived show, but I prefer the…

I wonder if these views would be more obvious if I went back and read the novels today. It was easy not to notice them when I was a pre-teen.

This was so long ago the Brooklyn Bridge was not there yet. Ferries were the only way to get around. But it definitely was negbait for modern times.

The motto of any modern adaptation is that there is nothing bad about the Empire that cannot be made to be even worse!

The play version also makes Philip and Vera innocent - all the people who are actually guilty still end up dead.

A prophet is never without honor, except at his own (former) website.

If you want some real Biblical pedantry - in no version is that verse (which is Malachi 4:6) the real last verse of the Bible. It is the end of the Old Testament in Christian Bibles - I guess they left out the NT because Larry King is Jewish - but in the actual Hebrew Bible, the books are in a completely different…

The alternative Biblical account of this period is 1 Chronicles, which really does begin with ten chapters of loading genealogy upon genealogy, but the Samuel books are probably the closest the Old Testament has to a novelistic account.

1990s quasi-prestige cable miniseries are generally not well-remembered (in both senses of the term - both not remembered fondly and generally not remembered at all) - but I recall that I enjoyed the TBS miniseries with Leonard Nimoy as Samuel and Jonathan Pryce as Saul (and Nathaniel Parker, who is apparently the…

It was a kind of before-your-timer, since their renown has faded like that of most pre-TV athletes, but they were extremely famous at one time.