Charlton Heston

What if you were the last person alive? There is this scene early in The Omega Man, a half-decent Charlton Heston movie, that sums it up for me. Heston is the last man on Earth. At night he fends off vampiric hoards, but during the day he is alone, watching Woodstock in a room full of corpses and driving around in an expensive car. At one point he hears a payphone ring. Another phone starts to ring, and then, the overwhelming sound of...  

Here's a blast from the past: Charlton Heston in the late 1950s as the surprise guest on What's My Line? Even though Heston had one of the most recognizable voices in the industry, in this pre-Ben-Hur appearance, he didn't even have to disguise it, as the panel was pretty much stumped.   

Perhaps it was simply a case of there not being anything else worth watching on a Saturday night -- a night that the networks have all but abandoned -- but ABCs telecast of the 1956 Cecil B DeMille classic The Ten Commandments starring Charlton Heston cap...  

On Saturday, Charlton Heston and "The Ten Commandments" set the ratings pace with 89,400 viewers for ABC. The other top shows were CBS' "48 Hours Mystery" with 74,200 viewers and the 8 p.m. edition of Fox's "Cops" with 58,500.  

I enjoyed Charlton Heston in a number of his movie roles. I imagine that everyone has a visual picture of Heston whenever the story of Moses parting the Red Sea is told. Heston is well-remembered by everyone for his role in Ben-Hur. I give credit to Heston for introducing me to a very under-rated talent named Paula Kelly in sci-fi classic, Soylent Green. I also thought Heston did a remarkable job in the title role of a solid western, Will...  

In "Mad Men @ the Movies" we look at the best show on television through the lens of its movie-loving ways. Obviously there are spoilers. 5.3 "Tea Leaves"In the third episode of the season Betty Draper Francis (January Jones) returns and there's more of her to love to hate! She's been packing on the pounds. At first there's a thyroid scare but it turns out Betty is just depressed and fat. The episode ends with Betty helping herself to a second...  

NEW YORK (TheWrap.com) - Mitt Romney has racked up some high profile endorsements in the last week, but his dad didn't get one from "Mad Men" character Henry Francis. On Sunday's episode, Betty's new husband received a work call while the couple waited for ...  

Mitt Romney has racked up some high profile endorsements in the last week, but his dad didn't get one from "Mad Men" character Henry Francis. On Sunday's episode, Betty's new husband received a work call while the couple waited for test results ...  

After a character in the AMC show refers to former Michigan Gov. George Romney as a "clown," his grandson tweets: "Seriously, lib media mocking my dead grandpa?" Conservative fans of Mad Men are shouting liberal bias after the AMC show took potshots at ...  

NEW YORK (TheWrap.com) – Mitt Romney has racked up some high profile endorsements in the last week, but his dad didn’t get one from “Mad Men” character Henry Francis. On Sunday’s episode, Betty’s new husband received a work call ...  

WASHINGTON - Mitt Romney is admittedly not a gun nut, though his campaign insists he owns two shotguns. Whoa, look out Charlton Heston! He jokingly asked Alabamans earlier this year to show him "which end of the rifle to point" and has bragged about ...  

Undated -- On April fourth, 1960, "Ben Hur" won the best picture and best director Academy Awards. The film's star, Charlton Heston, was named best actor. In 1963, The Hollies auditioned for EMI Records at Abbey Road studios. In 1964, The Beatles held the ...  

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