Seuss story “The Lorax” and admired its emphasis on protecting nature, so they were delighted to hear that Universal Studios would be releasing a movie version in March.
Take Ted Wells’s fourth-grade class in Brookline, Mass. And therein lies a story of how new Internet tools are allowing very ordinary people to defeat some of the most powerful corporate and political interests around - by threatening the titans with the online equivalent of a tarring and feathering. DeMille's The Ten Commandments may not be the most subtle and sophisticated entertainment ever concocted, but it tells its story with a clarity and vitality that few Biblical scholars have ever been able to duplicate.A BATTLE between a class of fourth graders and a major movie studio would seem an unequal fight. "Where's your Moses now?" brays Dathan in the manner of a Lower East Side gangster.
Robinson), are forgetting their religion and behaving like libertines. Meanwhile, the Hebrews, led by the duplicitous Dathan (Edward G. Sinai, who delivers unto him the Ten Commandments. Later, Moses is again confronted by God on Mt. But Moses rescues his people with a little Divine legerdemain by parting the Seas. As the Hebrews reach the Red Sea, they discover that Rameses has gone back on his word and plans to have them all killed. Only after the Deadly Plagues have decimated Egypt does Rameses give in. Banished by his jealous half-brother Rameses (Yul Brynner), Moses returns fully bearded to Pharoah's court, warning that he's had a message from God and that the Egyptians had better free the Hebrews post-haste if they know what's good for them. Moses (Charlton Heston) starts out "in solid" as Pharoah's adopted son (and a whiz at designing pyramids, dispensing such construction-site advice as "Blood makes poor mortar"), but when he discovers his true Hebrew heritage, he attempts to make life easier for his people. The story relates the life of Moses, from the time he was discovered in the bullrushes as an infant by the pharoah's daughter, to his long, hard struggle to free the Hebrews from their slavery at the hands of the Egyptians. Based on the Holy Scriptures, with additional dialogue by several other hands, The Ten Commandments was the last film directed by Cecil B.
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