“One does not attend this movie; one enlists in it.”

—  Murray Kempton

"Serpents on the Nile," http://books.google.com/books?id=-tQ1AAAAIAAJ&q=%22One+does+not+attend+this+movie+one+enlists+in+it%22&pg=PA73#v=onepage a review of The Ten Commandments (1956)

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