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With such inherently dramatic source material, George Stevens's cameo-packed 1965 dramatisation of the life of Jesus Christ still manages to be long, plodding and unintentionally funny Thursday, 24 December 2009 Director: George StevensEntertainment grade: EHistory grade: C Jesus of Nazareth is believed by Christians to have been the son of God.

The other day during the press screening of Peter Jackson's The Lovely Bones , I happened to notice that Jackson made a cameo appearance in the movie.

David McCallum has heard this story before. But ever the gentleman, he listens intently as a female baby boomer relates how he made her preteenage heart skip more than a few beats as the blond, blue-eyed Russian-born secret agent Illya Kuryakin on NBC's 1964-68 espionage series "The Man From U.N.C.L.E." Kuryakin and equally sexy American spy ...

The image lingers from Sunday school or Bible readings in church: the camel's hair-and-leather-belt getup, the diet of locusts and wild honey.