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...image of the courageous yeoman farmer, rising at dawn to milk the cows seems as American as apple pie or corn-based ethanol. As Ralph Grossi, president of the American Farmland Trust, told the Wall Street Journal, farmers are perceived as “hard working, salt of the earth, a core part of our culture.” Perhaps this sentiment, combined with the political clout of farming states like Iowa and the $80 million big agriculture poured into lobbying last year, explains why congressional attempts at reform have been slow in coming, and met with considerable resistance. Just...
...when a guy like Heston - and, really, there was no guy like Heston - walks onto a set, people line up to put him in majestic roles. Cecil B. De Mille saw his appeal immediately, casting him as the circus owner in the Oscar-winning The Greatest Show on Earth, then giving him the 31-year-old the role of Moses, where Heston, with an old man's beard and a young athlete's energy, holds his staff above his head, parts the waters of the Red Sea and beckons the Israelites to walk on through. That last...
...shoot, but director Franklin Schaffner insisted they keep filming, because the new gruffness in the star's voice lent a desperate urgency to his lines, from his first words to the simian overlords ("Take your stinking paws off me, you damned dirty ape!") to his final curse of Planet Earth ("God damn you all to hell!"). Since we've established that Heston was a deity, he could as easily have said, "I damn you all to hell...
...films of the period, happy endings were not mandatory. Even escapist films offered scant chance of escape from the sour national mood. The 1971 The Omega Man (recently remade with Will Smith as I Am Legend) was another dystopian fantasy film. Again Heston was possibly the last human on earth, battling predatory subhuman creatures who might have been the Black Panthers, the Weather Underground or the Watergate plotters. In the jungle that has replaced civilization, reason gives way to armed self-defense. When another human does show up, and Heston gives her a rifle, she asks what...
...dream of space to pursue their goal. “This is a phenomenal adventure. No day is like any other day,” Burbank said. “No astronaut I’ve ever met could ever do an adequate job of describing looking at the Earth from space...