Charlton Heston died in early 2008.
Charlton Heston was an iconic Academy Award-winning film actor, best known for playing larger-than-life heroic roles such as Moses in The Ten Commandments and Judah Ben-Hur in Ben-Hur.
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Charlton Heston died in early 2008.
Charlton Heston was an iconic Academy Award-winning film actor, best known for playing larger-than-life heroic roles such as Moses in The Ten Commandments and Judah Ben-Hur in Ben-Hur.
He has been long involved in political issues and was president of the National Rifle Association in the years 1998 to 2003.
And we're addicted to all three! No Moses didn't die, but some people will weep as if he did. Charlton Heston was a very fine actor who backed some worthy causes (Civil Rights) and some unworthy causes (the NRA). Some people began to think that, later in life, Heston came to see himself as more of a Moses of the middle-lass white man. This is what he had to say: "...the God fearing, law-abiding, Caucasian, middle- class Protestant-or even worse, evangelical Christian, Midwestern or Southern... Read Full Story
Now we all know Charlton Heston kicked the bucket more than a week ago, so let’s have a moment of silence for him…………………..Okay, enough of that. Now, I’m not the biggest Heston fan, but some of the movies he starred in are my favorites, and I just want to list a few of him here.
BEN-HUR
Remember when the American Movie Channel used to air this movie 50 million times around the Xmas holidays? I didn’t have a problem with that, I’d rather see this movie than It’s a Wonderful Life over and... Read Full Story
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Charlton Heston, who won the 1959 best actor Oscar as the chariot-racing "Ben-Hur" and portrayed Moses, Michelangelo, El Cid and other heroic figures in movie epics of the '50s and '60s, has died. He was 84. The actor died Saturday night at his home in Beverly Hills with his wife Lydia at his side, family spokesman Bill Powers said. Powers declined to comment on the cause of death or provide further details. "Charlton Heston was seen by the world as larger than life... Read Full Story
Screen legend. Defender of civil rights & the Constitution. Incredible voice. A legend has died. Charlton Heston played many roles. Even in bad movies like Earthquake, you watched him BECAUSE he was Charlton Heston & somehow he overcame the badness. His videos on the history of the Bible made you feel that you went back in time & he made it feel real & alive. He defended the civil rights of blacks, the rights of gun owners ( for which he was unfairly vilified in the most scurrilous manner... Read Full Story
This recording was the prologue to Michael Crichton’s book Jurassic Park, read on the Rush Limbaugh show on 3 Feb 1995.
Here is the transcript in it’s entirety:
You think man can destroy the planet? What intoxicating vanity. Let me tell you about our planet. Earth is four-and-a-half-billion-years-old. There’s been life on it for nearly that long, 3.8 billion years. Bacteria first; later the first multicellular life, then the first complex creatures in the sea, on the land. Then finally... Read Full Story
