This writer remembers Easter Sunday mornings of childhood when all the candy-filled eggs were collected, sitting before the TV and devouring Cadbury treats as the sweeping fanfare of Cecil B.
DeMille’s “The Ten Commandments” filled the family room.
Charlton Heston and Yul Brynner made big impressions with their booming voices, but what I remembered most was the swell of strings that would arise anytime Yvonne De Carlo’s saintly Sephora would grace the screen.
Years beyond that childhood, Elmer Bernstein’s epic score is what remains in the memory.Responsible for the oom-pah horns accompanying the “Ghostbusters” on their paranormal escapades and for the militant pomp of Ivan Reitman’s “Stripes,” Bernstein is as much associated with comedies as the more serious dramas, though you might not know that the guy who scored “The Man With the Golden Gun” is the same who worked on “Animal House.” In short,
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