That’s right brethren, today we will be discussing The Ten Commandments (mandatory pre-Passover/DoUB seasonal viewing) and The Sound of Music (the only time other than the telecast that the television was allowed to be turned on, during the “pagan holiday season”). Charlton Heston as Moses will be forever burned into my brain, how about yours? I can see why, given the subject matter, it was mandatory viewing for church members. But The Sound of Music? Just because one of the kids was a member of the cult? Yeah why am I not surprised…….Anyway onto the movies themselves.
Am I the only one who had I Will Sing to the Eternal running through my head during the “parting of the Red Sea” part of the The Ten Commandments?
I sometimes wonder what happened to the kid from The Sound of Music, though. Probably went the way of Bobby Fischer, more than likely……….
Friday, 28. November 2008
I never remembered the Ten Commandments nor the Sound of Music being “mandatory” for church viewing, but I remember it was rather “popular” for church members to watch it (though the historic WCG was a philistine culture when it came to the arts and popular culture). I even have the DVD for The Ten Commandments but I have yet for the Sound of Music. I still enjoy both movies and I don’t need any church to recommend my tastes.
The actor you are referring to in The Sound of Music who played Rolph is a guy by the name of Dan Truhitte. He left the WCG during the Exodus in 1973-74 and has never looked back. I seen him on Entertainment Tonight in 1991. At that time he was doing okay, even now playing the father Von Trapp in the plays. So much for that silly notion if you leave the church, bad things will happen to you. He even has a website at http://www.danieltruhitte.com/index.html. In other words, there is life after the WCG, no matter what time you left and life more abundantly. Thank goodness.
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Saturday, 29. November 2008
Wasn’t he Daniel Truhitte? I’m not sure if he’s the one, but if he’s still attending Herbie’s cult…too bad.
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Saturday, 29. November 2008
Found Daniel Truhitte here. No mention of any past church involvement, but I did find this on his bio page:
I knew my memory wasn’t failing me, he’s been mentioned on AW here.
Also see camfinch’s comment, just a little bit below (I can get Richard’s comment to link, but not Camfinch’s.)
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Saturday, 29. November 2008
My sister heard somewhere that “Rolf” was played by Jon Voight, so she thought for a second that we had a big-time celebrity who believed the way we did. But, alas, it turned out that Jon Voight played in a broadway Sound of Music, not the Julie Andrews one.
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