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2008-04-06 -Obits-

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Posted by Anonymoose 2008-04-06 00:15|| || Front Page|| [4 views ] Top

#1 A 64 year marriage must be a Hollywood record. I wonder if he asked to be buried with his rifle. That would be a welcome statement.

Posted by McZoid 2008-04-06 00:34|| 2008-04-06 00:34|| Front Page Top

#2 A very good actor and a superlative President of the NRA. Thank you for your service, Mr. Heston.

Posted by Pancho Elmeck8414 2008-04-06 00:54|| 2008-04-06 00:54|| Front Page Top

#3 God Bless.
See you on the other side Mr. Heston.

Posted by RD">RD 2008-04-06 02:33|| 2008-04-06 02:33|| Front Page Top

#4 damn.

Loved his work, his principles, and the way he conducted his life. RIP indeed

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2008-04-06 07:27|| 2008-04-06 07:27|| Front Page Top

#5 A good man. The replacement crop of hollywood is a disgrace.

Posted by DarthVader">DarthVader 2008-04-06 07:43|| 2008-04-06 07:43|| Front Page Top

#6 This guy's belief in America as a good and noble country and people is krypronite to the morons running around hollyweird today...

Posted by M. Murcek">M. Murcek 2008-04-06 08:07|| 2008-04-06 08:07|| Front Page Top

#7 God bless, Mr. Heston.

I'll go to the range today and sight in a new scope in your honor.

Posted by no mo uro 2008-04-06 09:31|| 2008-04-06 09:31|| Front Page Top

#8 I remember how in his later years he was invited on to the show "Politically Incorrect", with that asshole Bill Maher. All the other guests were notoriously leftist liberal, and kept up a barrage of noise while Heston just sat there. Then one made the mistake of sneering about guns.

Maher interjected, both jabbing at Heston and trying to get him to say something. Heston made a short, subeued and polite comment that was the typical NRA statement-of-fact used to counter emotional leftist polemic.

Then Maher, again with a sneer, asked Heston to "Say it like Moses would say it."

Whoa. Heston "turned on", and with full screen presence like he had in The Ten Commandments, issued forth a MIGHTY, Moses-coming-down-from-Mount-Sinai, proclamation about gun rights, and citing "The Lord Your God Has Said..."

Whoa. Everybody else shut the hell up. After Heston finished, you could have heard a pin drop in that studio. Utter silence for at least ten seconds as everyone, Maher, guests and studio audience, were afraid to *move*.

Finally Maher had to say *something*, but that was effectively the end of the show. They were just timid and unimportant mice, in the presence of gigantic greatness. Nothing that they could say or do mattered at all.

Posted by Anonymoose 2008-04-06 09:43|| 2008-04-06 09:43|| Front Page Top

#9 Damn, I'd have loved to see that, 'moose.

Wonder if it's around somewhere on You-tube (and how one would find it)....

Posted by Barbara Skolaut">Barbara Skolaut 2008-04-06 10:04|| http://ariellestjohndesigns.com/]">[http://ariellestjohndesigns.com/] 2008-04-06 10:04|| Front Page Top

#10 Our staff at EBS-Zaragoza had a chance to interview him in the late 1980s - and what we took away from the experience was that he was a total and complete professional. He could not have been more gracious to the two young airmen (interviewer and camera) who actually did the interview. I wrote about it here.

Posted by Sgt. Mom">Sgt. Mom 2008-04-06 10:11|| http://www.celiahayes.com]">[http://www.celiahayes.com] 2008-04-06 10:11|| Front Page Top

#11 Truly a Man amongst Men.

Rest Easy Mr Heston.

Posted by OldSpook 2008-04-06 10:35|| 2008-04-06 10:35|| Front Page Top

#12 caught in comments at AOSHQ: he was great, even in Wayne's World II. Had to be one of his last appearances on screen? Go to 0:30 in...

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2008-04-06 10:39|| 2008-04-06 10:39|| Front Page Top

#13 ... the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.

"If you want to feel the warm breath of freedom upon your neck... if you want to touch the pulse of liberty that beat in our Founding Fathers... you may do so through the majesty of the Second Amendment"
- Charlton Heston

A true American. We are the poorer for his passing.

Posted by Rex Mundi 2008-04-06 11:22|| 2008-04-06 11:22|| Front Page Top

#14 God Bless this man and his family.

We just found out last week that he has lived in his house, built with the earnings from Ben Hur since 1959. Frugil and classic.

Speaking of classic, "From my cold dead hands"

We will miss him.

Posted by Icerigger">Icerigger 2008-04-06 11:43|| 2008-04-06 11:43|| Front Page Top

#15 Moose thanks for that memory.

Posted by Icerigger">Icerigger 2008-04-06 11:44|| 2008-04-06 11:44|| Front Page Top

#16 Can we have his gun now?

Posted by Sarah Brady 2008-04-06 13:54|| 2008-04-06 13:54|| Front Page Top

#17 No.. not even from his cold, dead, hands

Posted by john frum 2008-04-06 14:35|| 2008-04-06 14:35|| Front Page Top

#18 Unlike Moses, he spent his life in his promised land. His memory is indeed a blessing.

Posted by trailing wife ">trailing wife 2008-04-06 14:40|| 2008-04-06 14:40|| Front Page Top

#19 It's interesting that Charlton Heston was one of the first Democrats to throw his support behind the Zionist Republican Dr. Martin Luther King in the early sixties.

Posted by tipper 2008-04-06 17:23|| 2008-04-06 17:23|| Front Page Top

#20 Rest in Peace Mr. Heston. You spent your life doing what is right for yourself and your countrymen in a place famous for doing the opposite. That your films will still be seen even after those who are yet unborn have all passed away is the best legacy America can provide.

Posted by ed 2008-04-06 18:32|| 2008-04-06 18:32|| Front Page Top

#21 Awwwww - RIP MOSES, BEN HUR, GENERAL GORDON, MAJOR DUNDEE, etc.

With this WOT, Osama's = Radical Islam's recent escalatory rdirection of Jihad towards Russia-Asia,+ US-led OWG-NWO still nascent, THERE ARE NOT MANY HOLLYWOOD ACTORS LEFT TO REPRESENT OLD-STYLE MASCULINE IDEALS OF RAM-ROD STRENGTH AND GUMPTION. Then again, isn't that what CGI is for - great actors/actresses' persona of yore can live again in new movies.

Posted by JosephMendiola 2008-04-06 18:48|| 2008-04-06 18:48|| Front Page Top

#22 Sure, Sarah. Bend over.

Posted by tu3031 2008-04-06 19:10|| 2008-04-06 19:10|| Front Page Top

#23 I'm going to go get drunk now.

Posted by Secret Master 2008-04-06 19:17|| 2008-04-06 19:17|| Front Page Top

#24 I think we make a difference together. We are a freer people than if we hadn't fought this good fight, Charlton Heston

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