I realized I'm a tad late here but I just wanted to say... rest in peace, Mr. Heston. He was awesome in Ben Hur, Mosses and Planet of the Apes. Though I don't share his opinion when it comes to guns, I think he's one of the greatest actors in a long time.
[A title="" href="vny!://movies.nytimes.com/person/94233/Charlton-Heston?inline=nyt-per"][FONT color=#004276]Charlton Heston[/FONT][/A], who appeared in some 100 films in his 60-year acting career but who is remembered chiefly for his monumental, jut-jawed portrayals of Moses, Ben-Hur and Michelangelo, died Saturday night at his home in Beverly Hills, Calif. He was 84.
His death was confirmed by a spokesman for the family, Bill Powers, who did not specify a cause. [SPAN class=bold][/SPAN]In August 2002, Mr. Heston announced that he had received a diagnosis of neurological symptoms "consistent with Alzheimer's disease."
"I'm neither giving up nor giving in," he said.
Every actor dreams of a breakthrough role, the part that stamps him in the public memory, and Mr. Heston's life changed forever when he caught the eye of the director [A title="" href="vny!://movies.nytimes.com/person/87147/Cecil-B-DeMille?inline=nyt-per"][FONT color=#004276]Cecil B. DeMille[/FONT][/A]. DeMille, who was planning his next biblical spectacular, [A href="vny!://movies.nytimes.com/gst/movies/titlelist.html?v_idlist=49007;287596;130439;391808;431924;119705;429779;352944;432038;372929;432045;432044;432039;174226;431923;432043;49010;430623&inline=nyt_ttl"][FONT color=#004276]"The Ten Commandments,"[/FONT][/A] looked at the young, physically imposing Mr. Heston and saw his Moses.
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Gracious, look how young and handsome he was!
i wonder what his friends called him?
Charlton?
Chuck?
Charlie?
Cee?
Moses?
Hess ?
Chuckton
His birth name was John Charles Carter.
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Interesting. I had no idea he changed his name - then again, most celebs do that.
Michel wrote:
Lots of celebrities here? lol
From my cold fingers eh ? Well somebody got a gun for free it looks like...
"...cold dead fingers" - what he said - yep love the over acting of guys like him - real entertainment - watched Beneath the Planet of the Apes on KSTW last night but feel asleep. He's in the movie and the very beginning with his "damn them all to hell" line, having stumbled into the Liberty statue neck deep in the shore sand.
funny how public perception changes. If he got murdered by a right wing extremist in the 50s and 60s for his views on Civil Rights, he'd be a martyr by now for human rights... now he's mr. gun.
"Heston campaigned for Presidential candidate[span style="text-decoration: underline;"] [/span]Adlai Stevenson in 1956 and John F. Kennedy in 1960. Reportedly when an Oklahoma movie theater premiering his movie El Cid was segregated, he joined a picket line outside in 1961.[span style="text-decoration: underline;"] [/span]Heston makes no reference to this in his autobiography, but describes traveling to Oklahoma Cityto picket segregated restaurants, much to the chagrin of Allied Artists, the producers of El Cid.During the civil rights march held in Washington D.C.in 1963, he accompanied Martin Luther King Jr. In later speeches, Heston said he helped the civil rights cause, "long before Hollywood found it fashionable."[/p] Following the assassination of Senator Robert F. Kennedyin 1968, Heston and actors [span style="text-decoration: underline;"][/span]Gregory Peck ,Kirk Douglasand James Stewart issued a statement calling for support of President Johnson's Gun Control Act of 1968. He opposed the Vietnam War and in 1969 was approached by the Democratic party to run for the U.S. Senate. (He wrote that he agonized over the decision and ultimately determined he could never give up acting.)"
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Sportsdude wrote:
funny how public perception changes.
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Not just public perception. Charlton Heston did change his political views.
probably because of '68.