‘Tis the season when Hollywood gets religion.
On Easter Sunday, ABC will be airing Cecil B. DeMille’s 1956 epic “The Ten Commandments” for the umpteenth time. (This tradition started at the network when I was less than a year old, and to my knowledge the film has aired there every year since.) Through the years, other films based on the Bible have shown up on the big screen and on television. “King of Kings,” “The Greatest Story Ever Told,” “Jesus of Nazareth,” “The Prince of Egypt,” “The Passion of the Christ,” “The Gospel of John,” “Noah.” Too many to name, really.
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