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Word: heston (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Days at Peking. The Boxer Rebellion gets the wide-screen treatment, and the result is a full-scale war. Among the foreign devils who make the Chinese so mad are David Niven, Ava Gardner, Charlton Heston and Paul Lukas; there are fireworks and plenty of blood mixed with the mob scenes, and the sets are Bronstonian in magnificence...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Jun. 7, 1963 | 6/7/1963 | See Source »

...Tuan. He is soon upstaged by the arrival of Ava Gardner; the sight of her well-mounted emerald necklace nearly turns the military two-step into a rout. Ava is a mysterious Russian baroness, and her escort is her roommate at the Hotel Mont Blanc, Charlton Heston, splendid in the dress blues of a U.S. marine. Prince Tuan furiously departs, taking with him a troupe of Boxer sword dancers who had terrified the guests with their choreographic snickersnee until Heston got into the act and threatened to slice the fattest of the group into Boxer shorts. Next morning the German...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Foreign Devils Go Home | 5/31/1963 | See Source »

Saturday, February 23 Saturday Night at the Movies (NBC, 9-11 p.m.). Charlton Heston as President Andy Jackson and Susan Hayward as his beloved wife Rachel in The President's Lady...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Feb. 22, 1963 | 2/22/1963 | See Source »

Darren finds it easy to possess the body of Sloan Rowland (Yvette Mimieux), the kid sister of "King" Howland (Charlton Heston), a fellow who owns the best part of Kauai-and that ain't Welfare Island. But winning her hand is quite another matter. Big Brother draws the color line, and when Darren tries to cross it, he just happens to fall on a knife that Heston just happens to be holding...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Never the Twain Shall Mate | 2/22/1963 | See Source »

...Pigeon That Took Rome lays a heap of small eggs that scramble surprisingly well. Coo-coo comedy is intended, and Pigeon gets off to a flying start as two G.I.s (Charlton Heston and Harry Guardino) sneak into Nazi-controlled Rome disguised as priests. Their mission: to spy on the Germans and send their reports out by carrier pigeon. Unfortunately, the priests meet a couple of broads (Elsa Martinelli and Gabriella Pallotta), and the pigeons meet with fowl play-they end up in a pot. Next day a sneaky schoolboy steals a fresh flock of pigeons from Gestapo headquarters...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Coo-coo | 9/7/1962 | See Source »

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