That Day I Met Charlton Heston’s Family At A Special Screening Of “The Ten Commandments”

A Monumental Moses Moment

Charlton Heston as Moses like he could only play it.

In 2011, I was privileged to attend the world premiere and special screening of Paramount Studio’s newly-restored and quite stunning edition of Cecil B. Demille’s 1956 feature film classic, The Ten Commandments, which just so happens to be my favorite movie of all time.

The Acadamy Award-winning Biblical film, based on the Old Testament Book of Exodus, features an A-list cast of cinema’s legendary stars headed by none other than Charlton Heston, who portrays Moses, the “Deliverer” (and who passed way in 2008).

For decades, ABC-TV originally broadcast the film during the Easter holiday, in two-parts on what used to be called the ABC Sunday and Monday Night Movie series. But for the last twenty years or so, the network has screened it, usually on Palm Sunday or Easter Sunday, in one four-hour period.

But I remember first watching the film during those original old-school ABC years, back in my hometown of Rochester, New York. In what was either 1971, 1972 or 1973 I, even then — in my pre-teen years, marveled at the mastery of Ten’s commanding cinematic tapestry.

But then flash forward almost fifty years to 2011 in Hollywood, and there I was, invited by a friend to an…