Kirk Cameron-Don't drink the koolaid and think Christmas had pagan origins.

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I get the feeling that Kirk Cameron is stupid enough that it'd be possible to trick him into working on a subtle anti-christianity movie. You know, just make the shallow, surface level stuff the same kind of persecution-bait bullcrap he usually does, but write in sufficient subtext that the true message is clear to anyone willing to investigate.

it was possible with Charlton Heston, why shouldn't it be possible with Kirk Cameron.

A blast from the past:

In more ways than one, the film is ancient history. It won 11 Academy Awards, the all-time record, in 1959. But the pair crossed swords when Vidal, in a television documentary on gay and lesbian images in film, claimed to have written a scene into Ben Hur - without Heston's knowledge - with clear homosexual overtones. They have been at it ever since.

Full story from 1996

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/...38968.html

Btw, Gore Vidal also mentions it on the bonus section of the DVD.

Here's another even funnier version of the story, with some vid of the mentioned scene.

http://www.advocate.com/arts-entertainme...?page=full