Word: charlton
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...accompany the novel describe this it as Rushdie’s first “American” novel. Certainly the novel is preoccupied with America, and the frequent rants about America’s failings further blur the distinction between Solanka and Rushdie: “Who let Charlton Heston out of his cage and then wondered why children were getting killed at school?” The novel brims with Rushdie’s acerbic wit, particularly in his portrayal of an ever-more wealthy and jaded America and its accoutrements. He name drops with alarming frequency...
...Third World made a brief stop on tour to commend French Prime Minister Lionel Jospin on the debt relief France has offered poor countries and to ask France to "finish what we have started." The group is also pushing gun control in its show, with a film mocking Charlton Heston...
...parent can wish for: to preserve his own integrity and pray that his child is duly impressed. If I didn't happen to know that horror stories breed at least as much curiosity as fear, and if I had more faith in bold commandments issued in the voice of Charlton Heston, I could imagine having that porch talk once, or maybe twice, and being done with it. Then I'd move directly to the punishment phase: "Is that beer on your breath, my darling? No car keys. Ever!" Unfortunately, I doubt that it will go like this. If my daughter...
...Planet of the Apes_ without kitsch? That's what the newly updated version of the 1968 science fiction classic is shaping up to be: a visceral, dynamic action movie that deviates so far from the original that it's almost unrecognizable. It's hard to imagine anyone besides Charlton Heston battling those "damned dirty apes," but Wahlberg fills his shoes well, and in a fitting, but rare touch, Heston appears in an ape cameo. As a US Air Force pilot, Wahlberg crash lands on a foreign planet, only to be captured by highly evolved intelligent apes (led by a costumed...
...helping along a text which, while well-written, could have been significantly shorter and just as effective. If a politician was militant and conservative in the postwar era, the reader quickly learns, then he was automatically labeled another “Hitler.” While driving to work, Charlton Heston suddenly converts to Goldwaterism. Writes Perlstein, “Looking up at an ‘In Your Heart, You Know He’s Right’ billboard at a Sacramento intersection, road-to-Damascus-style, on the way to a movie shoot, he thought to himself...