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...diminishes John McCain." McCain's advisers have tried to alleviate that concern by keeping the attacks light and funny while coaching their candidate to have fun on the trail. Several days after the Paris Hilton spot, the campaign released another online video that mockingly compared Obama to Charlton Heston's Hollywood depiction of a Biblical Moses. "They will call him 'The One,'" intones the ad's narrator. "Can you see the light?" (Though perhaps funny to secular voters, the ad was steeped in imagery that catered to conservative Evangelicals, a key voting bloc...
...have the slightly sordid quality of an inside joke: Oprah Winfrey called Obama "the One," and McCain's dyspeptic staffers latched on to that moniker, and now there's a sardonic ad using the messianic nickname, filled with celestial images of Obama smiling and orating grandiloquently, followed by Charlton Heston parting the Red Sea. When Obama--correctly--said that keeping your tires inflated was one way to conserve energy (and save some money), McCain distributed tire-pressure gauges stamped OBAMA'S ENERGY PLAN...
...Farewell to a Hollywood Legend My 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...
Farewell to a Hollywood Legend My 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...
...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 days...