Word: heston
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...star, Coburn, has "sort of a mean look," according to one frequent movie-goer. He has appeared in one other major Columbia film. "Major Dundee," starring Chariton Heston. A spokesman for Columbia was unable to name pictures produced by other companies in which Coburn had appeared...
...Lord is a costume epic with an unusual theme. Its hero, quite as usual, is Charlton Heston, playing a misspent 11th-century knight who falls heir to a small and dreary Norman fief on the coast of the North Sea. "There's a strangeness in this place," Heston remarks. And his servant Richard Boone nods sagely, like a man who knows a godforsaken frontier town when he sees one. Heston's castle is a tacky stronghold, one lone tower surrounded by sullen villagers and under constant threat of attack by swarms of large blond barbarians wearing identical wigs...
...film, Agony limits itself to those tumultuous few years when the reluctant Michelangelo (Charlton Heston) was commissioned by the warrior Pope, Julius II (Rex Harrison), to forsake his beloved marble and paint the frescoes for the vaulted ceiling of the Sistine Chapel. "It was built by my uncle, Pope Sixtus. That is why it is called the Sistine," says Harrison, surveying a replica meticulously copied by movie artists, and at the same time snappily launching Hollywood's own capsule history of Renaissance art. Unfortunately, the dramatic clash of two iron-willed giants at odds over a ceiling seldom gets...
This winter, for instance, Paul Newman will enter his 41st year. So will Jack Lemmon. While nobody was looking, Charlton Heston, Marlon Brando and Doris Day turned 41, Ava Gardner 42, Judy Garland 43. Montgomery Clift and Mickey Rooney are 44. Robert Stack has reached 46, Joey Bishop and William Holden 47. Dean Martin and Raymond Burr have hit 48, Gregory Peck and Kirk Douglas 49, Ingrid Bergman 50. Loretta Young could now be properly billed as Loretta Middle-Aged at 52. And as for Gary Grant...
...finished. He and his family were put aboard a plane and flown to Cairo where, after spending a night in Nasser's Tahra Palace, they moved into a luxury suite on the 19th floor of the Nile Hilton, next door to the suite of U.S. Film Star Charlton Heston and his family. On his way home from Casablanca, President Aref also stopped off in Cairo, perhaps to impress on Nasser the need for making haste slowly in ar ranging the eventual union of their two nations...