Sunday, April 06, 2008
Charlton Heston
Chuck Heston was not this country's greatest actor, but a very fine man, on the right side of things vis a vis civil rights in '63; political thinking about that time and thereafter; and, about guns for a very long time (cold dead hands, indeed). Here are some of the movies he actually added to:
He was a good Richelieu in both the 4 and 3 Musketeers;
He was a believable cowboy in Will Penny (points taken away from the movie for Lee Majors);
He could hold his own against Lawrence Olivier, who played the Mahdi, in Khartoum;
Good as the title character in The War Lord;
He was pretty good in Touch of Evil, too bad the movie sucks so bad;
Actually good all the way through in Major Dundee (again title character); and,
The chariot race is still one of the best things on film from Ben-Hur.
Also, even beginning to show the Alzheimers which may have killed him, he elegantly revealed in Bowling For Columbine Michael Moore to be the lying, manipulative, little (figuratively) backbiter he is.
RIP
He was a good Richelieu in both the 4 and 3 Musketeers;
He was a believable cowboy in Will Penny (points taken away from the movie for Lee Majors);
He could hold his own against Lawrence Olivier, who played the Mahdi, in Khartoum;
Good as the title character in The War Lord;
He was pretty good in Touch of Evil, too bad the movie sucks so bad;
Actually good all the way through in Major Dundee (again title character); and,
The chariot race is still one of the best things on film from Ben-Hur.
Also, even beginning to show the Alzheimers which may have killed him, he elegantly revealed in Bowling For Columbine Michael Moore to be the lying, manipulative, little (figuratively) backbiter he is.
RIP
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# posted by Roger Fraley @ 10:39 PM 
