Charlton Heston dead at 84

houstongal says on Apr 5, 2008, 22:31:

How unfortunate.

goin_south says on Apr 5, 2008, 22:47:

wait a minute; you wanted him to make another movie, before checking out??

why can't the freakin Chung King Chinese just LEAVE THE FREAKN DOLLY LLAMA and Tibet ... ALONE!

Robert Jorge says on Apr 5, 2008, 22:47:

Terrible news. I am going to turn on the news and check it out. He was a great person.

goin_south says on Apr 5, 2008, 22:48:

He and His movies were incredible!!

why can't the freakin Chung King Chinese just LEAVE THE FREAKN DOLLY LLAMA and Tibet ... ALONE!

Robert Jorge says on Apr 5, 2008, 23:25:

I've got the Ben Hur movie book that my mom bought when she watched the premier in Westwood, CA.

podborski says on Apr 6, 2008, 00:20:

El Cid is a great old movie, if you have 3 hours to kill on a rainy sunday afternoon.

MountainTop says on Apr 6, 2008, 05:09:

His support of the NRA was really disturbing. Moreover, he couldn't even defend his position. He walked away from Michael Moore when he couldn't answer his question.

scotty says on Apr 6, 2008, 16:56:

He made some great movies, He was an excellent spokenman for the NRA, and he walked away from Michael Moore because Moore is a nut.

Get Rhythm, when you got the blues. Johnny Cash

eywed says on Apr 6, 2008, 17:18:

Sad loss. He will be missed.

Ay Hombe!!!!!

Simon says on Apr 6, 2008, 17:28:

RIP Mr. Heston and thank you for the great movies!

"Get your stinking paws off me you damn, dirty ape!"----Planet of the Apes

"You want to talk to God? Let's go see him together, I've got nothing better to do."---Indiana Jones (Raiders of the Lost Ark)

MountainTop says on Apr 6, 2008, 18:56:

That is one of the best movie lines ever. I put that right up there with radio rahims "put some extra mooooozerela on that mother fucker and shit"

travelingirl says on Apr 6, 2008, 21:00:

I was watching CNN (and I never watch CNN but it was on in the hotel elevator) and the clip they chose to show when talking about Heston was one where he was holding up a gun (presumably at a NRA meeting) saying something about how they'd have to "pry it from my cold dead hands". I know that's one of his famous quotes but could they not have found a better, more tasteful soundbyte considering he just died?

Around her hair she wore a yellow ribbon...

christobeldawg says on Apr 6, 2008, 21:51:

Moore totally took him by surprise, and with no respect, when Heston was no longer on top of his game. It was a disgrace what Moore did. I have no strong feelings on Moore's argument, either way, but he was a total ass in what he staged in that case, at Heston's expense.

admittedly, arriving can feel great too

travelingirl says on Apr 6, 2008, 21:52:

I haven't seen the whole Moore/Heston thing. I guess I should read up on it so I know what you all are talking about.

Around her hair she wore a yellow ribbon...

DodgerDogs says on Apr 6, 2008, 22:13:

here is the video with the fat rat ( Michael Moore ) being his typical smart a**ss self , if he was talking to my Father like he did Heston , he would not be talking today.

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Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.Martin Luther King:

travelingirl says on Apr 6, 2008, 22:31:

Just a little tidbit... more kids under the age of 5 drown in water buckets than children under the age of 10 die from accidental gunshots. That's just water buckets... not including bathtubs.

Around her hair she wore a yellow ribbon...

goin_south says on Apr 6, 2008, 22:45:

wow... I did not know that.
Thank god for 'research'... jaja..
wadup, Tg?

why can't the freakin Chung King Chinese just LEAVE THE FREAKN DOLLY LLAMA and Tibet ... ALONE!

christobeldawg says on Apr 6, 2008, 22:49:

I have killed at least 50 guys with just my bare knuckles, usually only because they looked at me wrong. Anybody got a problem with that?

admittedly, arriving can feel great too

travelingirl says on Apr 6, 2008, 23:01:

GS, darling, that's what I do, all day, everyday... RESEARCH.

Dawg, I must be delirious from the lack of sleep b/c I just laughed at your bare-knuckle-looked-at-me-wrong comment. ;)

Around her hair she wore a yellow ribbon...

goin_south says on Apr 6, 2008, 23:04:

Tg... I laughed, because I can't imagine there were more than two kids drowned in water buckets last year.

why can't the freakin Chung King Chinese just LEAVE THE FREAKN DOLLY LLAMA and Tibet ... ALONE!

travelingirl says on Apr 6, 2008, 23:09:

I know! It is hard to believe that thirty something kids under 5 drown in water buckets every year. :( More than twice that many drown in bathtubs.

Around her hair she wore a yellow ribbon...

goin_south says on Apr 6, 2008, 23:25:

(and, in the famed - or flamed - tradition of pbh): And, that was only what was reported!

why can't the freakin Chung King Chinese just LEAVE THE FREAKN DOLLY LLAMA and Tibet ... ALONE!

scotty says on Apr 6, 2008, 23:28:

Simon that was a line we will never forget " get your paws off of me you damn dirty ape", what a great choice. thanks!

Get Rhythm, when you got the blues. Johnny Cash

podborski says on Apr 7, 2008, 07:46:

I met Heston's son Fraser once, he was the nicest, most down to earth guy. I figure he didn't get that way without having good parents.

morphus says on Apr 7, 2008, 10:03:

Then there was George Clooney. No class!

"In receiving a special filmmaking achievement award from the National Board of Reviews, actor George Clooney joked that "Charlton Heston announced again today that he is suffering from Alzheimer's." "

Lets wish Clooney a slow, horrible death :)

miamimike says on Apr 8, 2008, 00:08:

I was surprised to see Bush Lauded Heston in 2003 for His Civil Rights Activism and remember this, His Work on behalf of the Unions,,,How will that sit with the NRA Boys?? LOL

HESTON'S POLITICS DEFIED CLASSIFICATION

WASHINGTON -- Charlton Heston's political roles were as varied as his screen roles, from union leader and civil rights advocate to outspoken abortion foe and gun rights champion.

He was "an American who devoted himself to civil rights, to correcting injustices and to standing up for what he knew was right," said Wayne LaPierre, vice president of the National Rifle Association, which Heston led from 1998 to 2003.

That position marked Heston as a conservative stalwart, but his political activism began with a more liberal bent. He campaigned for liberal presidential candidate Adlai Stevenson in 1956 and supported John F. Kennedy in 1960. In 1961, he picketed the opening of one of his films at a segregated Oklahoma theater, and he joined Martin Luther King Jr. in his historic 1963 march on Washington.

Heston drifted right in 1964, when he backed Republican presidential candidate Barry Goldwater, but he maintained ties across the political spectrum. From 1966 to 1971, he led the Screen Actors Guild the longest tenure of any SAG president.

Heston backed Richard Nixon's 1972 re-election and stumped for Ronald Reagan in 1980.

Friendship with Reagan made him more partisan, Emilie Raymond wrote in a 2006 biography From My Cold, Dead Hands: Charlton Heston and American Politics. "As the Democratic Party adopted affirmative action and softened its anti-Communist agenda, Heston concluded that common ground had disappeared."

By the late '80s, Heston was an outspoken abortion foe and, after taking the NRA helm, he was a full-fledged conservative icon.

At the 2000 NRA convention, Heston blasted Democratic presidential candidate Al Gore for his gun-control stance. In his defining political image, Heston raised an antique rifle in the air and said Gore would have to wrest the right to bear arms "from my cold, dead hands."

Some of his final screen appearances cemented his ties to gun rights. In the 2001 remake of Planet of the Apes, he made a cameo as an old warrior ape who holds a gun as he dies. In the 2002 documentary Bowling for Columbine, filmmaker Michael Moore grills Heston on his unyielding position on the right to bear arms.

Yet Heston's political legacy goes beyond his pro-gun stance.

When President Bush awarded him the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2003, he cited the actor's World War II service, his union work and his civil rights activism. He "left his mark on our country as an artist and as a citizen and as a patriot," Bush said.

-- By Peter Eisler

Our enemies are innovative and resourceful, and so are we. They never stop thinking about new ways to harm our country and our people, and neither do we." GW Bush

scotty says on Apr 10, 2008, 23:52:

Did you forget that he suported the Martin Luther King movement and marched many times for others rights.

Get Rhythm, when you got the blues. Johnny Cash