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Moses At The Movies

Encore Series presents...

Doug Cotter

Cecil B.
DeMille, left,
directs Theodore
Roberts, right,
during the
filming of
"The Ten
Commandments,"
released in 1923.

Sunday, January 10, 1999 • 4400 p.m.

D. Dan & Betty Kahn Building

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of people are touched by and know
intimately. It's a film that has some
very, very powerful messages."
For The Prince of Egypt companion
albums, the film was shown to the
artists involved, and they were asked
to provide their musical reactions.
"We never told them what to write,"
explained James Stroud, head of
DreamWorks Records Nashville. "We
just asked them to pick something that
spoke to them from the film.
"We stuck our necks out," he con-
tinued, "and said, 'If this is going to
be an inspired-by album, we've got to
take what you give us.' We've been
really lucky and real blessed."
"In an era of soundtracks where

Blessed with a warm and expressive voice, Cotler's sen-

sitive and penetrating interpretations of liturgy as well

as his insightful and humorous songs about Jewish

events and heroes have placed him in the forefront of

contemporary Jewish music.

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Yul Brynner
in the 1956 ver-
sion of "The Ten
Commandments."
Brynner played
Rameses opposite
Charlton Heston
as Moses.

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people are actually doing compilation
albums as a marketing tool," said Jeryl
Busby, former head of Motown
Records who now heads Dream-
Works's urban music division, "it was
an interesting process to have an
album come together where each song
was an inspiration and had a personal
statement from the artist."
Both Stroud and Busby, who execu-

tive produced the respective albums,
feel that what DreamWorks has creat-
ed are long-selling "catalog pieces. '
What gives them the confidence to
believe the inspired-by albums will
still be relevant long after the release

of The Prince of Egypt?

Busby summed it up: "This is the
one case where the artists chose the
soundtrack, instead of the soundtrack
choosing the artist."

— Serena Donadoni

The Big Screen

While Val Kilmer gives voice to
Moses in DreamWorks Pictures' The
Prince of Egypt, this certainly isn't the
great prophet's first
appearance on the sil-
ver screen. If you're
looking for more of
Moses at the movies,
check out the follow-
ing actors as Moses,
and the movies they
appeared in:
• Mel Brooks, The

History of the World,
Part I (1944)
• Charlton Heston,
The Ten Command-
ments (1956)
• Ben Kingsley, Moses
(1996 TV miniseries)
• Burt Lancaster, Moses, the Lawgiver
(1995 TV miniseries, then theatrical
release)
• Dudley Moore, Wholly Moses (1980)
• Theodore Roberts, The Ten Com-
mandments (1923)
• Soupy Sales, — And God Spoke

(1993)

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