2: Language commentator GEOFFREY NUNBERG discusses good and bad accents in the movies. Actor KIRK DOUGLAS. The star of "Lust for Life," "Paths of Glory," "Champion" and Stanley Kubrick's epic, "Spartacus," about a leader of slaves revolting against Republican Rome. (REBROADCAST FROM 8/22/88). Actor TONY CURTIS. In 1960 he starred in "Spartacus." A restored version of the film was released in 1991 that includes previously cut scenes, including one where Lawrence Olivier --as a general-- tries to seduce his slave, played by CURTIS. (REBROADCAST FROM 4/19/91).
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