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RIP: Actor Charlton Heston passes away
His family issued a statement about it late yesterday:
BEVERLY HILLS, Calif., April 5, 2008 /PRNewswire/ — Legendary actor, civil rights leader and political activist Charlton Heston passed away today, at the age of 84. He died at his home with Lydia, his wife of 64 years, at his side. Mr. Heston was loved by his two children, Fraser Clarke Heston and Holly Heston Rochell, and his three grandchildren, Jack Alexander Heston, Ridley Rochell and Charlie Rochell.
The Heston family issued the following statement:
“To his loving friends, colleagues and fans, we appreciate your heartfelt prayers and support. Charlton Heston was seen by the world as larger than life. He was known for his chiseled jaw, broad shoulders and resonating voice, and, of course, for the roles he played. Indeed, he committed himself to every role with passion, and pursued every cause with unmatched enthusiasm and integrity.
We knew him as an adoring husband, a kind and devoted father, and a gentle grandfather, with an infectious sense of humor. He served these far greater roles with tremendous faith, courage and dignity. He loved deeply, and he was deeply loved.
No one could ask for a fuller life than his. No man could have given more to his family, to his profession, and to his country. In his own words, “I have lived such a wonderful life! I’ve lived enough for two people.”
A private memorial service will be held. The family has requested that, in lieu of flowers, donations be made to the Motion Picture and Television Fund:
MPTF
22212 Ventura Boulevard, Suite 300
Woodland Hills, CA 91364
www.mptvfund.org
He had suffered from Alzheimer’s disease for several years.
Heston’s Hollywood history was extensive, and included two roles he is most famous for: Ben-Hur, for which he won an Academy Awarrd in 1959, and Moses in the 1956 movie The Ten Commandments.
His political activism, particularly on the issue of gun rights, was and is well-known by both those on the left (where in some quarters we are seeing a celebration of his passing today) and right (where respectful tributes are being posted). In 2003, a year after he announced he was suffering from “symptoms consistent with the early stages of Alzheimer’s disease,” President Bush issued him the Medal of Freedom.
Heston was a former Democrat who had a wake-up call in the 80s, and his position on gun rights earned him the deep lifetime animosity of the Hollywood left – from the likes of disingenuous “directors” like Michael Moore, and mediocre actors like George Clooney, who infamously spat out the following back in 2003:
In receiving a special filmmaking achievement award from the National Board of Reviews, actor George Clooney joked that “Charlton Heston announced again today that he is suffering from Alzheimer’s.”
Clooney still had a chance to apologize for the bad humor day. When questioned about the remark by New York Newsday, Clooney sputtered: “I don’t care. Charlton Heston is the head of the National Rifle Association. He deserves whatever anyone says about him.”
I should note that there are probably a lot more people talking and reading about the life of Charlton Heston right now than there are those who went to see Clooney’s football movie Leatherheads, which finished a disappointing third this weekend behind the movie 21, which took the number one spot for the second straight week, and the kids movie Nim’s Island, which stars Jodie Foster.
What self-righteous nitwits like Clooney won’t tell you in their zeal to appear socially aware and hip is that Heston was one of the early supporters of the Civil Rights movement and reportedly was part of a Martin Luther King, Jr. march in 1963, while Clooney was still a two year-old typical whining baby in diapers (not much has changed). Heston switched his political affilation a couple of decades later, in part, over his disgust with Hollywood’s increasing obsession with political correctness, and because of his changed beliefs on issues like gun control to the point he strongly believed and advocated that ownership of a gun was a civil right. He was a three-term president of the NRA, and some of his more notable gun rights moments can be read/listened to/watched here and here. His famous “from my cold dead hands” quote came from a speech he made to the NRA right here in Charlotte in May 2000.
I extend my thoughts and prayers to the family of this extraordinary man.
Charlton Heston: 1924 – 2008
Cross-posted to Right Wing News, where I am helping guestblog for John Hawkins on Sundays. Photo courtesy of the AP.
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God Bless Charlton Heston and his Family. His movies were always my favorites while I was growing up. I loved Ben Hur, The 10 Commandments, the Musketeer movies, and of course the Planet of the Apes movies. I was always hoping he would tell George Clooney off by saying “Get your hands of me you damn dirty ape!”
He will definitely be missed. – Lorica
He was an actor of great stature, often playing larger than life characters. Beyond that, he was a man of character. He will be missed!
I will remember Heston for the series that he made in which he read passages from the Bible.
I knew the minute I heard he was dead that the left would be celebrating. Only some real low life, shallow, dirt bags with a complete lack of decency would celebrate something like this. Glad to see our friends on the left didn’t disappoint.
The National Rifle Association is our nation’s oldest civil rights organization, and Mr. Heston honorably served as President. R.I.P.
Mr. Heston was helping to protect America from the day when there would be no guns. Whats the Left going to do when the guns gone and the really bad people start coming out of the wood work after them.
I doubt we will see another of his stature again in our lifetimes. Hollywood has settled into a mindless vacuum of mediocrity. RIP, Mr. Heston.
I have this idea that right about now he’s swapping movie stories with John Wayne and later today he and Ronald Reagan will talk politics. And by tomorrow Moses will have sat him down and told him what he got right and what wasn’t quite accurate in the Ten Commandments.
He has left the earth but the images will live on.
R.I.P. to a fine actor and extraordinary American.
“The National Rifle Association is our nation’s oldest civil rights organization,”
Exactly how I’ve always thought of them myself.
“(where in some quarters we are seeing a celebration of his passing today)”
Oh but how can this be when they’re so tolerant and open minded?
My favorite Heston role is “Touch of Evil,” in which he costarred with Orson Welles, who also directed.
According to an appreciation by NY Times film critic Manolha Dargis, the 1998 version of the film, which restores Mr. Welles’s version (it had been cut by the studio) is the version to get.
This is what she has to say about Mr. Heston v. Michael Moore:
LINK
And My Dad would be hanging right there to listen to it all. He loved all 4 of those guys.
– Lorica
I don’t care if he was 84, he still proves that the good die young.