Word: heston
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...swing back from meta-gazing helps to explain the success of the gooey, sunset-flooded Titanic and its Celine Dion title song. Of course, we're not returning to the El-Cid era of filmmaking in which we're expected to throw our hearts immediately into the valiant Charleston Heston's 11th-century siege of Valencia. Titanic, at least, puts the story in the memory of Rose DeWitt Bukater, justifying any sentimental outrage by framing it in her memory. I admit that even I bought into the lavish beauty of it all--if only for three hours...
...honors as narrator for the recent documentary "Behind the Planet of the Apes." The job called for an open embrace of the sci-fi/camp classics that Charlton Heston had clearly sidestepped, just as he did by bowing out of the series after just a teaser role in the first sequel. McDowall loved every minute of it; you could see it in his eyes. He loved the makeup, the social commentary, the sense of doing something that hadn't been done, then doing it over and over again as long as they kept paying you. McDowall was a pro -- temperamental...
...office bomb at the time of its release, Touch of Evil has nevertheless been heralded as one of the masterpieces of the noir genre. Charlton Heston plays Ramon Miguel "Mike" Vargas, a Mexican narcotics investigator embroiled in a shady murder investigation just on the other side of the border. Heading the investigation is Captain Hank Quinlan, played by a padded and bloated Welles. When Quinlan's abuse of power proves too great an affront to Vargas' moral sensibilities, he soon involves both himself and his newlywed American wife, played by a feisty Janet Leigh, in the cutthroat bordertown brawl between...
...with Welles own experiencesattempting to work within Hollywood. After aseries of commercial failures, Orson Welles exiledhimself to Europe for 10 years. Having areputation for being difficult and often goingoverbudget, Hollywood was not terribly excitedabout his return to make Touch of Evil. Infact, it wasn't until Charlton Heston realizedthat Welles was only acting in the film and notdirecting it, and consequently refused to work onthe film unless Welles was the director, thatWelles was offered the position. Nevertheless,Welles was fired in post-production and his filmwas butchered...
...seems until Woody (now an ant named "Z") gets off the psychoanalyst's couch and walks into "The Colony." Hardly the accustomed venue for paranoid melodrama, the computer generated image of a million humanoid ants carrying around gargantuan dirt clods seems to belong more to a Charleton Heston flick than to a movie whose hero is characterized by unrelenting nervousness...