From the Los Angeles Times:

Charlton Heston, the Oscar-winning actor who achieved stardom playing larger-than-life figures including Moses, Michelangelo and Andrew Jackson and went on to become an unapologetic gun advocate and darling of conservative causes, has died. He was 84.

Heston died Saturday at his Beverly Hills home, said family spokesman Bill Powers. In 2002, he had been diagnosed with symptoms similar to those of Alzheimer's disease.

(Welkos and King (http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/front/la-me-heston6apr06,1,2698820.story))]

No word yet on whether he made a point of dying with a gun in his hands. Maybe if I thought he was a good actor his movies would be the first thing to come to mind.
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Notes:

Welkos, Robert W. and Susan King. "Charlton Heston, 84; Oscar-winning actor played larger-than-life figures". Los Angeles Times. April 6, 2008. http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/front/la-me-heston6apr06,1,2698820.story

I wonder if morticians have a special tool for prying guns out of cold, dead hands?

:bawl: oh I liked that actor

Soulent Green 4 ever

http://img5.allocine.fr/acmedia/rsz/434/x/x/x/medias/nmedia/18/36/22/67/18473827.jpg

From my dead body indeed..

Guess theres no fun at gun rallies with him around.

"Soylent Green is made of people!"

Where is that from...?!

Forget his acting, he was a gorgeous specimen of manhood. I still remember him in Ben Hur


Exhumed:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soylent_Green

He choked to death eating those green wafers!! :D

Sorry to see him depart but he did leave us with some great movies to remember him by....The Ten Comandments was a very special movie when it was made with some great special effects as well as some Bible learning to go along with it.

"Soylent Green is made of people!"

Where is that from...?!

Soylent Green, the movie

:bugeye: *blank stare*

Soylent Green, the movie

:bugeye: *blank stare*

Soylent Green is a 1973 dystopian science fiction movie depicting a bleak future in which overpopulation, global warming, and the resulting severe damage to the ecology have led to widespread unemployment and poverty. Real fruit, vegetables, and meat are rare, expensive commodities, and much of the population survives on processed food rations, including "soylent green" wafers.

The film overlays the genres of science fiction and the police procedural as it depicts the efforts of New York City police detective Robert Thorn (Charlton Heston) and elderly police researcher Sol Roth (Edward G. Robinson) to investigate the brutal murder of a wealthy businessman named William R. Simonson (Joseph Cotten). Thorn and Roth uncover clues which suggest that it is more than simply a bungled burglary

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soylent_Green

Soylent Green, the movie

:bugeye: *blank stare*

Was it actually a popular movie? :shrug:

Anyway, I voted for "Get your hands off me, you damn dirty ape!". Who else could of made that line so good? :p

yeah cosmic, prepare to be shown a very nice relaxing before the death movie with flowers and awesome music and injected a slow "painless" toxin to cause death in 1 min...and than the next day cosmic will be converted into green munchkins for hungry toothless children outside New York

Was it actually a popular movie? :shrug:


that movie is hilarious :D its sort of like dark humor comedy of overpopulation, it was popular back in its time.

Was it actually a popular movie? :shrug:

For its time it was pretty good. Not much in the way of special effects but the message it presented us with made people pause and think for an instant, then back on towards global destruction full steam!


Anyway, I voted for "Get your hands off me, you damn dirty ape!". Who else could of made that line so good?

Faye Ray in King Kong?

http://www.hollywoodfiveo.com/fotomotel/omega/planet_apes3.jpg

Ahhh Heston. One of the greats... possibly THE great. I do so love "Planet of the Apes". One of my faves.

They don't make 'em like they used to.

Hmmm... I suddenly want to buy a 12 gauge.

~String

I voted for planet of the apes, because I love that movie. But how could you omit
http://www.templeton-cambridge.org/fellows/grossman/publications/2007.03.07/americans_get_an_f_in_religion/img/charlton_heston_plays_moses.jpg
from your poll?

Forget his acting, he was a gorgeous specimen of manhood. I still remember him in Ben Hur

From Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben-Hur_%281959_film%29#Possible_homosexual_subtext):

In interviews for the 1986 book Celluloid Closet, and later the 1995 documentary of the same name, screenwriter Gore Vidal asserts that he persuaded director Wyler to allow a carefully veiled homoerotic subtext between Messala and Ben-Hur. Vidal says his aim was to explain Messala's extreme reaction to Ben-Hur's refusal to name fellow Jews. Surely, Vidal argued, Messala should have been able to understand that Ben-Hur, his close friend since childhood, would not be willing to name the names of his fellow Jews to a Roman officer. Vidal suggested a motivation to Wyler: Messala and Ben-Hur had been homosexual lovers while growing up, and then separated for a few years while Messala was in Rome. When Messala returns to Judea, he wants to renew the relationship with Ben-Hur, but Ben-Hur is no longer interested. It is the anger of a scorned lover which motivates Messala's vindictiveness toward Ben-Hur. Since the Hollywood production code would not permit this to appear on screen explicitly, it would have to be implied by the actors. Vidal suggested to Wyler that he would direct Stephen Boyd to play the role that way, but not tell Heston. Vidal claims that Wyler took his advice, and that the results can be seen in the film. Vidal is the only person ever to make this claim, and Heston insisted that Vidal had little to do with the final film. However, Vidal responded by producing extracts from Heston's 1978 biography An Actor's Life, in which the star described Vidal authoring most of the final screenplay.

That in itself almost makes Ben-Hur worth watching.

Almost.

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I voted for planet of the apes, because I love that movie. But how could you omit ... from your poll?

Um ... it was four in the morning?
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Notes:

Wikipedia. "Ben-Hur (1959 film)". Updated April 6, 2008. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben-Hur_%281959_film%29


I knew I was forgetting something. Like I said in the topic post, maybe if I thought he was a better actor, his movies would come more readily to mind.

I have to agree with MadAnt. The 10 Commandments is what I think of when it comes to Heston. Growing up, we watched it every Easter (?????) because my Mom said so.

I was always hoping that he would have realized that he has wasted his life promoting death, violence, hate and extremism and taken one of his precious guns and shot himself at an NRA convention and splattered his brains all over the other fucks who frequent these events.

But how could you omit

from your poll?

Fixed.

Any others?

He was a good actor but not great. He did 'his thing' very well but his acting range was limited. He played the same character a dozen times with just a change of clothes and historic setting.

I'd put him in league with John Wayne, Gary Cooper and so on. A step below a Henry Fonda or Humphrey Bogart.

Good riddance.

"Were it not for your active involvement," Florida Gov. Jeb Bush told him, "it's safe to say my brother may not have been president of the United States."

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080406/ap_on_go_ot/heston_politics

Eww.

From the Los Angeles Times:



No word yet on whether he made a point of dying with a gun in his hands. Maybe if I thought he was a good actor his movies would be the first thing to come to mind.
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Notes:

Welkos, Robert W. and Susan King. "Charlton Heston, 84; Oscar-winning actor played larger-than-life figures". Los Angeles Times. April 6, 2008. http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/front/la-me-heston6apr06,1,2698820.story



oh he's dead, there you go such is life!!

he was a nasty man anyway! i am not sad he is dead, to me its anouther red neck who thinks guns are a good thing gone!

Shouldn't this thread be in the Astronomy and Cosmology section... I mean, chapter?

Guns couldn't be banned before,
because Charlton Heston was still alive.
And he wouldn't let anyone take his guns until he was dead.
That deep sonorous voice. I wouldn't mess with him.
Would You?


Now is surely the ideal time.
If they were banned now, there could even be a little ceremony
taking a gun from his cold dead hands.

...
taking a gun from his cold dead hands.

perhaps they are not that cold...:rolleyes: perhaps he has a grenade ring attached to one of his fingers just in case anyone decides to take his gun from him :cool:

I guess now we can get that gun out of his cold, dead hands...

I guess now we can get that gun out of his cold, dead hands...

Rigor Mortis might present a problem.

"Get your hands off me, you damn dirty ape!"
Get your stinking paws off me you damn dirty ape!! ;)

Get your stinking paws off me you damn dirty ape!!

Damn. How right you are. I must have been thinking of the Troy McClure version. Maybe. Maybe not. Damn. Nope (http://www.snpp.com/episodes/3F15.html).

Oh, well.

Syzygys: "I guess now we can get that gun out of his cold, dead hands..."

http://z.about.com/d/politicalhumor/1/0/s/W/heston_colddeadhands.jpg

I am telling you...the second you take it from his hands...the grenade will blow up in his arm.

From my cold dead hands indeed.