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I like to watchThe Ten Commandmentsevery year as I get ready for Passover. Is it dangerous to base my understanding of Jewish history on the work of an anti-Semitic film director?

By Danny Miller, Contributor

Writer and book editor in Los Angeles

Apr 4, 2007, 09:38 AM EDT |Updated May 25, 2011

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That insanely anachronistic bit of dialogue was uttered by Anne Baxter's Nefretiri to Charlton Heston in the 1956 version of The Ten Commandments. Cecil B. DeMille's second retelling of the Passover story (he first filmed the Biblical tale in 1923) is the campy benchmark against which all other cinematic depictions of the Exodus will forever be compared, including the new ABC mini-series that debuted last year. For some, DeMille's film eclipses even the Bible. "I don't need to read the Haggadah," I remember telling my horrified grandfather as a kid at our seder table. "I already saw the movie!"

Henry Rose. February 6th 1958

There have been a few Jewish sports journalists of distinction.  In the USA perhaps the best known were Nat Fleischer, who created The Ring magazine, which was enormously influential in the world of boxing, and Howard Cosell, who was at the leading edge of sports casting in the USA.

In the UK it was Henry Rose.