This guy must have attended a Texas public school

I’d be willing to be every last penny I’d ever see in my lifetime on the fact that William Wyler’s version of Ben-Hur opened in 1959. Like right before Thanksgiving of 1959, if memory servces. I’m also willing to wager the national debt that the movie won the Oscar for the best picture of 1959. Not 1961. 1959. Anyone want to argue with that?

A Blue-Ray version of Ben-Hur will be released this September and pictured here you see the cover for this package. Notice anything? What’s with this “Fiftieth Anniversary” business? Look, math has never been my strong suit, but 50 + 1959 doesn’t = 2011. Well, it might if you’re serving in the Texas Legislature, but out in the real world …