Lunch with Moses...

Yes, I once had lunch with Moses. No, not the REAL Moses but someone almost as famous! I was fortunate enough to be able to spend about an hour with Mr. and Mrs. Charlton Heston back in the early 1990's.

I was taking some film and photography classes at The College of Santa Fe, in New Mexico, it has a very prestigious Moving Image department, and almost always has some famous actor stopping by to speak with the students.

Lucky me, I was selected at random to sit at the banquet table with the actor and his wife and I ended up sitting right next to Mrs. Heston. They were both very, very nice and very cordial. Mr. Heston looked much older and smaller than I had imagined he would - but he had aged quite a bit since being in the movies that I grew up watching, especially "The Ten Commandments" and "Planet of the Apes". He still had the voice though, unique, strong and commanding and I enjoyed listening to his "pep talk" to all of us fledgling filmmakers, screenwriters and actors.