LUCKY BREAK HELPED HESTON WIN MOSES ROLE BY A NOSE

Did you know that a broken nose Charlton Heston suffered while playing college football might have helped him land the role of Moses in the 1956 remake of "The Ten Commandments"?

The story behind the nose is told in "Movie Anecdotes" (Oxford University Press, $8.95) by Peter Hay.Heston was cast, in part, as Moses because Cecil B. De Mille, while doing research for the film, discovered that Michelangelo's statue of Moses had its nose broken in the same place as Heston's.