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...AILING. CHARLTON HESTON, 78, imposing star of such Hollywood epics as Ben-Hur and The Ten Commandments, conservative political spokesman and, since 1998, president of the National Rifle Association, who revealed that his doctors have said he has symptoms consistent with Alzheimer's disease. In a taped address announcing his struggle with Alzheimer's, Heston lamented, "For an actor, there is no greater loss than the loss of his audience. I can part the Red Sea, but I can't part with...
...healthy $3 million. Moore's docu-comedy, which earned the Jury's only unanimous award (a 55th Anniversary prize), is a rambunctious, disturbing, often hilarious autopsy of the American gun culture; it includes creepy interviews with James Nichols, brother of the Oklahoma City bombing conspirator, and Charlton Heston, who used to be Moses and is now president of the National Rifle Association. Columbine has loads of entertainment value, but one wonders if that's why it received a possibly unprecedented 13-min. standing ovation from the tuxedoed Cannes crowd. Or could it be that the movie seemed to ... hate America...
...misdeeds continue up through the 20th century, when Sir Laurence Olivier was almost decapitated by a falling 25-pound sandbag, Sir John Gielgud endured the deaths of Duncan as well as two of the weird sisters in 1942 and Charlton Heston watched his tights catch on fire during a 1953 production in Bermuda...
...Manchester Firing Line Range is, by all accounts, a Shangri-La of high-powered weaponry. If Charlton Heston is the Holy Father of the gun world, then the Manchester Firing Line Range is certainly his Vatican, in New England anyway...
Besides, figures like him are amusing, and even useful, to have around to visibly puncture the sanctimonious grandstanding of public figures. During the Gulf War, in a live CNN appearance alongside Charlton Heston, Hitchens asked the actor and NRA president to identify the countries that bordered Iraq. Stumped after naming three, Heston complained that Hitchens was wasting the nation’s time by “giving a high school geography lesson...