r.i.p. charlton heston

now strap him to a tank and ride him through tehran

wau.

let's remember the good, r.i.p.

http://www.horrortalk.com/reviews/OmegaMan/OmegaMan3.jpg

RIP

"from his cold dead fingers"

they can get that rifle from him now

damn xpost

lol wikernet

Heston may refer to:

* Heston, a London suburb
o home of Heston services
* Heston Blumenthal, English chef
* Charlton Heston, dead US actor
* Fraser Clarke Heston, his son
* Heston model, a stochastic volatility model used in mathematical finance

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4f/Ronald_Reagan_Charlton_Heston.jpg

youhe may be the lovely dust through which god will work his purpose

best unrealized buddy movie ever
xpost

rest well.

21-million gun salute

ok rip and all but srs lolz

http://www.latimes.com/la-me-heston6apr06,0,3675317.story

just such a great image to use there

http://www.fosteronfilm.com/images/touch.jpg

rip senor

still can't believe old Moses was kicked around by michael moore.

Michael Moore's website has an rip image up

So Old Woodentop's life has finally caught up with his art....

Rest in Peace.

all those guns got him a long way

Had some great films, then some fuckin' daffy politics later on.

Saw Omega Man at the theater 2-3 weeks ago. Fun movie, last 3rd is fuckin' horrid.

Welp, he's off to the Soylent Green factory now.

Probably died of a broken heart because he wasn't invited to the secret board.

bahahahaha

So anyone gonna take him up on that "cold, dead hands" offer?

IT'S BEEN JOKED ABOUT ALREADY

http://www.sepiamutiny.com/sepia/images/CharltonHestonPlanetOfTheApes_new.jpg
RIP hardman.

RIP! Even though you did become a crazy old gun dude! I got love for you for Soylent/Omega/Apes! Peace!

First Bill Buckley, now this?

RIP to an American original.

was an active civil rights supporter in 50s/60s, before he went nuts.

AND NO ONE IN NYC WD GO SEE "APES' W/ ME LAST WEEK. SEE?

RIP! Even though you did become a crazy old gun dude! I got love for you for Soylent/Omega/Apes! Peace!

-- jel --, Sunday, 6 April 2008 17:29

Yeah, what he said.

: (

i prefer to think of the dude for his good flicks and his civil rights stuff

wish he could have gone out with a little less right wingery though :-\

If only there were some way he could be buried back in Evanston.

P.S. Free gun currently available in his hands! (May require prying)

you are third in line with that joke!

goodbye chuck! you were a true motherfucker!

http://www.geocities.com/ditcininterviews/musketeers6.jpg

"Enemies? I have no enemies. France has enemies."

RIP

gun hands dead take cold

EVANSTON, WYO., NABISCO???? I LIVED NEAR THERE OMG

was an active civil rights supporter in 50s/60s, before he went nuts.

AND NO ONE IN NYC WD GO SEE "APES' W/ ME LAST WEEK. SEE?

-- Dr Morbius, Sunday, April 6, 2008 12:40 PM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Link

lack of comedy image on facebook invite

dude put his vest on for the last time, didn't he?

Ol' Blue Eyes is gone. RIP

So anyone gonna take him up on that "cold, dead hands" offer?

if the onion does this joke i'm gonna puke.

Predictably but depressingly the news bulletins yesterday put all the emphasis on Ben Hur and the pro-gun stuff.

No mention of 55 Days In Peking or Touch Of Evil or even much of Planet Of The Apes (certainly none of The Omega Man) but that didn't surprise me at all.

"Bushes that refuse to burn
See these sandals hardly worn
the recipe for egg flied lice
100 ways to kill a fly
love your daddy, love your mummy
put your bread in milk and honey
loved his fish he did he did
Never beat the wife and kids
up through desert up through sand
until we reached the promised land.....W

Those sea-parting SFX were pretty crummy even by 1956 standards.

so many great movies rip buddy

I liked the way he said "bondage" in Ten Commandments.

Heston said his Apes character was the one most like him.

The ILXor in Dargis comes out, calling the scifi trilogy "great" (Omega and Soylent, aside from Rosalind Cash and Edw G Robinson respectively, are shit).

The Man Who Touched Evil and Saved the World
By MANOHLA DARGIS

“What does it matter what you say about people?” Marlene Dietrich asks at the end of that 1958 American masterpiece “Touch of Evil.” She’s talking about the dead cop Hank Quinlan, a mound of stilled flesh and lasting corruption given frightening life by the film’s director, Orson Welles. The man who brings him down is Vargas, the upright Dudley Do-Right Mexican detective with a paint-on tan. Lantern jaw set like a vise, this is of course Charlton Heston.

Dietrich’s character probably had it right that it doesn’t really matter what we say about people, but in the wake of Mr. Heston’s death on Saturday, I would like to offer a few words about one of the last American movie stars. This seems particularly worthwhile because in the final decades of his life he had all but disappeared from the screen, making one of his only on-camera appearances in “Bowling for Columbine,” Michael Moore’s 2002 anti-gun feature. Mr. Moore shows up at Mr. Heston’s home and tries to shame this stooped and visibly frail old man for his stance on guns. The old man doesn’t engage Mr. Moore, just walks away, unfailingly polite to the end.

Welles called Mr. Heston “the nicest man to work with that ever lived in movies.” These two seemingly unlikely collaborators were brought together to star in a pulpy Universal Pictures project originally titled “Badge of Evil.” Mr. Heston thought that his co-star had been hired as the director (“any picture that Welles directs, I’ll make”), which prompted the studio quickly to sign Welles up for what would be his last Hollywood studio gig. Welles rewrote the screenplay and shot much of the film in Venice Beach in Los Angeles. History, alas, repeated itself, and he lost control of the film as he had on “The Magnificent Ambersons,” which is a different story from the one I want to tell. (A beautifully re-edited version was released in 1998 and is available on DVD.)

It was Welles who decided that Mr. Heston should play the role as a Mexican, partly as a way of building up what he considered to be an uninteresting character. (At first glance it may seem as if Welles failed.) Shortly after the film opens, Vargas and his delectable new American bride, Susan (Janet Leigh), kiss at the Mexican-American border, a passionate embrace that leads to a cataclysmic explosion and soon plunges the newlyweds into a phantasmagoria of sleaze, violence and very low camera angles. Vargas, a celebrity cop who has brought a case against a drug ring that’s about to go to trial in Mexico City, spends much of the story separated from Susan and circling Quinlan, a dirty American lawman.

In long shot and choking close up, Welles directs Mr. Heston brilliantly, making particularly memorable use of the actor’s physicality, his big, rangy body and the hard, clean right angles of his face. The ramrod straight, straight as an arrow Vargas, with his impossibly long and loping stride, could not look or register more different from Quinlan, an amorphous blob who all but rolls across the screen. Welles exploits Mr. Heston’s rigidity as a performer (and his American movie-star presence) for the character, using what in other films sometimes seemed like a limitation of craft and technique to the great advantage of the story’s texture and meaning. He turns Mr. Heston’s jutting jaw into the wagging finger of righteousness, deepening the film’s complex morality.

Mr. Heston starred in other notable films, of course, including Sam Peckinpah’s vicious 1965 western, “Major Dundee,” another story about border crossing and yet another ill-fated production taken away from its director. Mr. Heston plays the title character, a fanatical cavalry officer who, along with a motley posse, chases marauding Apaches into Mexico. Mr. Heston has his moments as Dundee — there’s something about his intensity that lends itself to obsessive characterizations — but he remains elusive, never becoming the Ahab that Peckinpah was after. As he had with Welles, Mr. Heston showed great loyalty to his troubled director and threatened to walk if the studio fired Peckinpah, who was drinking heavily throughout the production. Mr. Heston forfeited his salary in the bargain.

As much as I admire “Major Dundee,” my fondness for Mr. Heston can be traced back to the films I saw growing up, most important his great dystopian trilogy: “Planet of the Apes” (1968), “The Omega Man” (1971) and “Soylent Green” (1973). This was the Charlton Heston I first met and loved and the one I still love, the last man on Earth, the raging consciousness, the horrified hero. Few films thrilled me — or scared me — as much as “Soylent Green,” in which his character realizes that the stuff keeping the human race alive is made from other human beings: “Soylent Green is people!” By then, he had played Moses and saved an entire people from destruction. Things didn’t look good in “Soylent Green,” but somehow, I thought, surely Charlton Heston could save us.

Copyright 2008 The New York Times Company

Mr. Moore shows up at Mr. Heston’s home and tries to shame this stooped and visibly frail old man for his stance on guns. The old man doesn’t engage Mr. Moore, just walks away, unfailingly polite to the end.

ha what that isnt at all how it happened

guess we can get that gun from him now huh

i prefer to think of the dude for his good flicks and his civil rights stuff
(.......)
wish he could have gone out with a little less right wingery though :-\

-- omar little, Sunday, 6 April 2008 17:05 (Yesterday) Bookmark Link

Yeah, pretty much :-/ rip weird dude.

I read a bit of Heston's diaries a couple of years ago. He talks about the books he's read and the directors he admires, with surprising insight and generosity. After hearing the news yesterday a friend remarked, "Good fucking riddance. A repulsive person." I got as indignant as Mike Vargas.

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As the Dargis story points out, the only reason Welles got to direct "Touch of Evil" was because Heston pushed the idea. This was at a time when Heston was riding high and Welles was considered toxic by producers.

RIP

"rip weird dude" indeed. i always thought he was really intense and strange, kind of out-of-place and unbelievable in whatever he was doing

Lots of people are deluded about the usefulness of weaponry. Mr Heston's delusions on this subject were noteworthy only because he made a point of brandishing them in front of a huge audience. I am sorry to say that the evil men do often lives after them, while the good is oft' interred with the bones.

As an actor he was adequate to the roles he played. As a person he may have been a swell guy. I'll give him the benefit of the doubt and say R.I.P., sir.

"HABLA DE SPANISH?!"

(does he actually say this during the bar fight scene in Touch of Evil or is that just how i remember it?)

WHAT DID YOU DO WITH MY WIFE?!

Lots of people are deluded about the usefulness of weaponry.

Lots of people like them for their own sake, not for their "usefulness."

good call:

http://www.theonion.com/content/from_print/charlton_hestons_gun_taken

SHOT BY GORILLA IN ST PATRICK'S CATHEDRAL

Lincoln Ctr retro! Sci-fi and '60s/70s-heavy:

http://www.filmlinc.com/wrt/onsale/charltonheston/program.html

I'm guessing Earthquake won't be in Sensurround.

His day on TCM. (late: Major Dundee, Soylent Green)

Again? They reprogrammed a day for him right after he died.

lotta republicans with cable...

that wasn't a full 24 hours of gritted teeth.

Heston attended the March on Washington 45 years ago today.

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:Poitier_Belafonte_Heston_Civil_Rights_March_1963.jpg

Again? They reprogrammed a day for him right after he died.