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Seated at his office in Beverly Hills, Ben Mittleman, 57, doesn\’t have a trace of gray in his sandy-brown hair. He says his mother used to kid him that he must have had a \”facelift or something,\” but despite the fact that this veteran TV actor turned director-producer looks 10 years younger than his age, he underwent heart surgery in 2001. That experience is the subject of \”Dying to Live,\” along with his response to the cancers that later took the lives of both his mother and his wife, Valerie. The film premieres Thursday, March 13, at Laemmle\’s Music Hall, where it will screen for two weeks.