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...Farewell to a Hollywood Legend My thanks to Richard Corliss for his appreciation of Charlton Heston [April 21]. If anyone under 40 wants to know why their older friends and relatives have such low regard for today's generation of Hollywood actors, Heston is one reason. He was a symbol of how America thought of itself: energetic, courageous, practical, resilient. No one in Hollywood can take his place. R.W. Harrington, De Pere, Wisconsin...
...meantime, let’s hold our breath for Dakota Fanning, Miley Cyrus, and Abigail Breslin. Way before ever becoming an agent, Iris Burton got her start as a dancer on Broadway and then in Hollywood. One of her only two film credits is as an unnamed dancer alongside Charlton Heston in “The Ten Commandments.” Curiously, Heston passed away on the same day as Burton, and the two seem kindred spirits. In later life, while one championed the National Rifle Association after a wave of school-shootings, the other rifled through new headshots just...
...thanks to Richard Corliss for his essay on Charlton Heston [April 21]. If anyone under 40 wants to know why their older friends and family have such low regard for current Hollywood actors, Heston is one reason. He was a symbol of how America thought of itself: energetic, courageous, practical, resilient. No one in Hollywood can take his place. R.W. Harrington, DE PERE...
...time when Hollywood took itself seriously, when heroes came from history books, not comic books. Epics like Ben-Hur or El Cid simply couldn't be made today, in part because popular culture has changed as much as political fashion. But mainly because there's no one remotely like Charlton Heston to infuse the form with his stature, fire and guts...
...Charlton Heston, the great screen actor who graced sets from the Egypt of the Old Testament to the Planet of the Apes, passed away a few days ago. A notable conservative who marched with Martin Luther King, Jr., he would later serve as the president of the National Rifle Association. Before the onset of the Alzheimer’s that claimed his life, Heston was often just a punch line for jokes about Soylent Green and gun nuts, but in truth he was a lot more than that...