Actor Charlton Heston dies

[legalsuit]

Along with DVDs of Brad Pitt's Troy, Colin Farrell's Alexander, there is also Charlton Heston's Ten Commandments, Ben Hur, El Cid, and away from biblical and historic epics, Planet of the Apes...a genre of movies, that my friends (females) and I, on occasion, enjoy running while generally lusting over them, as we sip wine over a hot meal during cold, wintery days...admiring their good looks in skimpy costumes...http://www.emotihost.com/glass19/25.gif...Oh, and the stories are good too...http://www.emotihost.com/glass16/25.gif Charlton's manly, long limbed physique has always been rated the highest...so, as a bit of a movie buff, watching his old movies were always the most pleasurable.

But joking aside, and on a sombre note, given the news of his death (http://cosmos.bcst.yahoo.com/up/player/popup/?rn=248153&cl=7286140&ch=&src=y7news), we shall honour this actor with our own celebration, for his past quality movies and for the enjoyment he has provided to moviegoers over the years.

[Ned Seagoon]

I wonder if they have managed to pry the rifle out of his cold dead hands?

[legalsuit]

I wonder if they have managed to pry the rifle out of his cold dead hands?


I'll bet his family now regret that "now-famous pose [when Heston] mimicked Moses' parting of the Red Sea [with the raising of a rod]...by raising instead a flintlock over his head" and challenged his detractors [those advocates for gun control] "to pry the rifle 'from [his] cold, dead hands'..." at the time he became president of the National Rifle Association in 1998 in the US.

[renegade600]

the family will not regret it if they believed in the cause

[Harrie]

I was sorry to hear about Charlton Heston's death! He was a great actor, I think. I never, ever, EVER tire of The Ten Commandments. I just watched it again recently. I believe I read (quite awhile back) that he himself felt he was too young when he played Moses; that he could have done better if he'd been older. I say no, he did a brilliant job.

Dan, you said that well.

[chg]

Another Icon gone!He will surely be missed,and Hollywood doesn't have any to compare.

[legalsuit]

Another Icon gone!He will surely be missed,and Hollywood doesn't have any to compare.

So true.

He was quite an icon. There's a brilliant range of contemporary actors nowadays, but somehow, actors of Heston's generation had that special quality - probably because Hollywood was a "different school" to what it is today.

[legalsuit]

... He was a great actor, I think. I never, ever, EVER tire of The Ten Commandments...he did a brilliant job...

He was a great actor. I've lost count of the number of times I've seen The Ten Commandments...plus it had Yul Brynner...another actor I thought brilliantly suited his role.

[Tweaker]

I wonder if they have managed to pry the rifle out of his cold dead hands?

Not without the assistance of the NRA..... ;)

[jmtjet]

Heston had a seizable gun collection numbering over 1000 guns some of which are worth thousands of dollars. Makes my gun collection kind of puny :)

[Snurfen]

I wonder if they have managed to pry the rifle out of his cold dead hands?

Awww Ned, I was going to say that!

The guy was a wonderful actor, but his bleatings about the NRL or whatever those muppets are called, got severely on my nerves.

[w1che]

You watch old movies & in some, all of the great actors in them are gone now..