Week 13-Foreign Paper English Language Post-Let My People Go

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The Jerusalem Post had an article about the new made for tv movie, "The Ten Commandments" which debuts this week on Amercian television. It listed the actors, none of whom I had heard of ( which doesn't necessarily mean that the film isn't good), but the 1956 film "Ten Commandments" starring Charlton Heston as Moses and the late Yul Brynner as the Pharoah Ramses, ( see photo) has so colored our thoughts on the subject that it is difficult to imagine different actors playing the roles. Young Heston and young Brynner were at the "top of their game" with their interpretations, and performances by Edward G. Robinson, Vincent Price, Cedric Hardwicke, Yvonne De Carlo, John Derek and Judith Anderson were just as inspired. It remains to be seen if the latest version will even be able to be considered in the same sentence. For the most part, remakes of old films are not good, actually, the odds are always against the remake, only three things can happen with a remake, the remake can be better than the original, about the same as the original, or worse than the original. Two of those three happenings are not good. The new movie has some very big shoes to fill, and I suspect they will come up short.