Charlton Heston Dead at 84

[SoMissTV]

I wonder if they'll pry that gun from his hands now? (http://hattiesburgamerican.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080405/NEWS01/80405027)

[dreamhippy]

That is such a shame! I loved him!

[Engelbert Humperdinck]

I met him at a local Law Enforcement picnic a few years ago...He seemed real nice. My thoughts to his family.

[Conveyor Belt]

A little respect for the dead would be nice.

We've lost yet another one of the classic great Hollywood actors.

[lamarrebel]

Charlton Heston was a great actor, a true patriot and one of a kind. I loved his perfromances from everything from The Ten Commandments to his role in Dynasty II the Colbys in the 80s. And you just have to admire anyone these days who's an actor and who is also a conservative Republican.

My thoughts and prayers go out to his family.

[Honey]

Oh that is sad.

[BayFly]

That was about the lowest statement I have ever heard. Mr. Heaston had so many accomplishment as an actor and many things and also was proud of being spokesman for N.R.A. and that asine statement you just made was beyond beleif. My thoughts are of his family and friends, He will be missed.

[SoMissTV]

Hey, I liked him, too. It was just idle curiosity: he said that you could have his gun when you pried it from his cold, dead hands.

It begged the question.

[BayFly]

Hey, I liked him, too. It was just idle curiosity: he said that you could have his gun when you pried it from his cold, dead hands.

It begged the question.


There is a time and place for everything and posting the news of his death with sarcism is wrong

[aaron]

It's a mad house, a mad house!

IMDB Profile (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000032/)

[SoMissTV]

A little respect for the dead would be nice.

There is a time and place for everything and posting the news of his death with sarcism is wrong

There have been plenty of other posts (http://www.myhattiesburg.com/forums/showthread.php?t=28032) made concerning people's deaths using sarcasm. I've never seen anyone groan those posts.

[BayFly]

I didn't groan you

[SoMissTV]

I didn't groan you

Two others did.

[wilebill]

There have been plenty of other posts (http://www.myhattiesburg.com/forums/showthread.php?t=28032) made concerning people's deaths using sarcasm. I've never seen anyone groan those posts.My comment in that post was not directed toward the dead man.

[SoMissTV]

I wasn't referring to your post, but others in the thread.

[Scarlett O'Hara]

Charlton Heston was a remarkable person!!

[kevin]

He was a Great Man! Prayer's to his family!

[SueScribe]

My thoughts and prayers are with his family, too. Anyone who'd feel otherwise would need their guns pryed from their cold, dead hands.

There is a time and place for everything and posting the news of his death with sarcism is wrong

There is a decided difference between sarcasm and irony. Mr. Heston launched the double-dare and anyone who opposed him was/is . . . ?

Let me be perfectly clear: I live in a house full of guns. However, I do NOT believe it is my Constitutional, God-ordained RIGHT to own them, and I certainly do not believe that anyone who opposes my house full of guns is in any way at all, somehow, less than me, less patriotic than me, or WRONG - as Mr. Heston regularly, routinely espoused vis-a-vis his Chairmanship of the NRA.

Two others did.

Not I, said the woman who believed Charleton Heston was an unremarkable actor, and about as symbolic of patriotism as "bring it on", unless that symbolism includes hoisting a 30-ought-six into the air as if he were some sort of maniacal, living Statue of Liberty, sans torch and crown. (Little did we know, of course, that he was likely suffering from advanced dementia, which does somewhat explain his bizzare conduct.)

Charlton Heston was a remarkable person!!

You actually knew him? Tell us more.

[EricStratton]

I'm amazed that so many people in the H'burg area were such close, personal friend of the great "patriot"....

SoMiss, I actually thought the same thing when I read the title of the thread...

[betsy]

OK kids that's enough. I thought we were all friends here. Charlton Heston was a remarkable person who gave plenty to all sorts of charities, was a great actor and did say you will have to pry this gun from my cold dead hands (or something like that) and his family loved him and are greiving. Can't we leave it at that??

[shultz dooley]

Wow, you know your getting up there when all your movie star heroes, that you idolized growing up, have all passed on. I think Richard Widmark passed earlier this week? These guys were cut from a different cloth, than those that pass as stars today. Does this pose ring any bells?

http://www.reelclassics.com/Actors/Heston/images9/heston_eparker_nakedjungle_poster.jpg

[Conveyor Belt]

Once again, SMTV manages to focus a thread about someone elses death on himself.

I'm amazed.

[ComputerDude]

CNN just showed the "Cold dead hands" cliip. Wasn't that right after Columbine?
Anyway, he was a melodramatic mediocre actor but VERY enjoyable none-the-less. Midway, Earthquake, Planet of the Apes. All movies I saw as a kid and are still favorites of mine to this day.
Farewell Chuck.

[dollfus46]

A little respect for the dead would be nice.

Some people just don't have any. Like the holy rollers who cheer at soldiers' funerals. No difference.

[dollfus46]

Two others did.
Three;)

[chaz]

I'll echo Stratton and say it was the first thing I thought when I read the headline.

The groans are only there bc SoMiss made the post, no one groaned ES's joke regarding a rape. (Never thought I would be defending SoMiss...)

[dollfus46]

Actually I wouldn't know a great actor if he bit me in the ass. I'm certainly not qualified to judge such talent. I'd know real bad ones and Charlton Heston wasn't bad. He was imposing and entertaining and I liked his films. Burt Lancaster was another animal though. Only liked him in Field of Dreams and he hammed it up pretty good. He was awful, simply awful, but I enjoyed him in that one.

[lamarrebel]

he was a melodramatic mediocre actor


Anyone who wins an Oscar and plays such historical giants as Moses, Ed Cid, Michaelangelo, etc is not mediocre. He was a great actor from the days of those roles until his cameo in True Lies in 1994 (the last thing I can off hand remember him in).

And like Ronald Reagan, he put his speaking talent to great use in the public arena late in life.

[Kitty]

Don't forget Ben-Hur.

[dollfus46]

Don't forget Ben-Hur.
I thought that was a transexual.

[ComputerDude]

Anyone who wins an Oscar and plays such historical giants as Moses, Ed Cid, Michaelangelo, etc is not mediocre. He was a great actor from the days of those roles until his cameo in True Lies in 1994 (the last thing I can off hand remember him in).
Hey, I liked the guy too. But he was an over-actor. Of course, they all were back than. You should know as well as I do plenty of actors and actresses have won Oscars that weren't really that good.
I think his last role was in the Planet of the Apes remake.

[birthdaybunnie]

OK kids that's enough. I thought we were all friends here. Charlton Heston was a remarkable person who gave plenty to all sorts of charities, was a great actor and did say you will have to pry this gun from my cold dead hands (or something like that) and his family loved him and are greiving. Can't we leave it at that??

Thank you Betsy for being civilizied and trying to bring the other azzz hats that have no respect for loss of life to attention.......Wow, this could have been your relative or loved one:smt023.....PEACE OUT!!

[firefly]

I wonder if they'll pry that gun from his hands now? (http://hattiesburgamerican.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080405/NEWS01/80405027) SoMiss, that was really LOW, even for you!

[firefly]

I am so upset right now. I belong to Mr. Heston's on-line fan club, In_the_Arena & I just now turned my computer on & learned of his passing. This man was the greatest actor--bar none--to ever grace the silver screen & my favorite ever since I was a little girl. He is meeting some of the great people that he portrayed. There was only one CHARLTON HESTON & now he is gone. He will live on in the hearts of his loyal fans forever!

[dollfus46]

Hey, I liked the guy too. But he was an over-actor. Of course, they all were back than. You should know as well as I do plenty of actors and actresses have won Oscars that weren't really that good.
I think his last role was in the Planet of the Apes remake.
I always thought Victor Manure;, Mature, whatever, was pretty hammy.:laugh:

[Remington]

Hey, I liked the guy too. But he was an over-actor. Of course, they all were back than. You should know as well as I do plenty of actors and actresses have won Oscars that weren't really that good.
I think his last role was in the Planet of the Apes remake.
Some refer to him as overly dramatic in his roles, but that was the style back then. I love watching old movies and have more old movies in my DVD collection than new ones. Acting styles have changed since those days when Heston was big.

[dollfus46]

Hey, I liked him, too. It was just idle curiosity: It begged the question.
You weren't curious at all. You think he had a gun in his hand? You just tried to be cute at a most inappropriate time and pissed in your post toasties. And since no one appreciated it but you and Sue, I'd say it flopped.

[Ted]

Some refer to him as overly dramatic in his roles, but that was the style back then.
. . . . . .
Yes - and, additionally, CH was originally a stage actor and exaggerated presentation is a conventionality of that venue. ;)

There's a new Wiki article about him - Here (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlton_Heston).

[dollfus46]

You actually knew him? Tell us more.
You don't have to "actually know" someone to know about them and their accomplishments. Contrary to common belief, I didn't actually know Abe Lincoln.............:smt118

[Ted]

You don't have to "actually know" someone to know about them and their accomplishments. Contrary to common belief, I didn't actually know Abe Lincoln.............:smt118Methuselah maybe??

:-D heh heh heh

[SoMissTV]

Heston's last film appearance was in Michael Moore's Bowling for Columbine.

[EricStratton]

no one groaned ES's joke regarding a rape.

Refresh my memory....I don't recall making a joke about a rape....unless it involved CB and a dolphin or dollfus and Ann Coulter/Greta Van Sustren....

[SueScribe]

Hey, I liked the guy too. But he was an over-actor. Of course, they all were back than. You should know as well as I do plenty of actors and actresses have won Oscars that weren't really that good.
I think his last role was in the Planet of the Apes remake.

I thought it was a cameo in Any Given Sunday (Oliver Stone's best film to date, IMHO).

Some refer to him as overly dramatic in his roles, but that was the style back then. I love watching old movies and have more old movies in my DVD collection than new ones. Acting styles have changed since those days when Heston was big.

So true. Heston played Heston in different costumes. Played everything over-the-top, as did many of his ilk, i.e. Ronnie Reagan, Victor Mature, Kirk Douglas (in his pre- Atlantic City days).

You weren't curious at all. You think he had a gun in his hand? You just tried to be cute at a most inappropriate time and pissed in your post toasties. And since no one appreciated it but you and Sue, I'd say it flopped.

Stratton seems to be the third in the Triad of What's Up With Thinking Heston Was Perhaps An Egomanical Loud Mouth with Mnimal Thespian Talent.

I'd lay you ten dollars in Monopoly money to a dime odds that if Jane Fonda croaked, or Barbra Streisand, or Sean Penn, or any number of outspoken "liberal" actors in Hollywood, the inappropriate, unseemly Saying Bad Things About The Dead would explode on this site.

You don't have to "actually know" someone to know about them and their accomplishments.

I disagree. There is a public persona (as in the identities on this board, and celebrities, and politicians, for instance), and then there is "knowing someone."

Matt Damon is an excellent actor, but may be a pefect sh**, if one got to 'know' him. Javier Bardem is obviously an excellent actor, and in interview appears to be a down-to-earth, genuinely nice guy, but . . he just may put on that Dorothy Hamill wig when the Moon is full and slaughter sheep in Austrailia, for all I know.

[EricStratton]

(wife hollers down the hall at me) What in the hell are laughing at?

(I reply) Sue's post!

Wife: Who the hell is Sue?

Me: Ugh.....Ugh....just a friend....

[SueScribe]

(wife hollers down the hall at me) What in the hell are laughing at?

(I reply) Sue's post!

Wife: Who the hell is Sue?

Me: Ugh.....Ugh....just a friend....

You have GOT to keep our relationship a little more subtle than this. The last thing I need is a riled-up young woman beating on the door, which I open, and to which she says, "You've got to be kiddin' me . . ."

[ComputerDude]

Heston's last film appearance was in Michael Moore's Bowling for Columbine.He was interviewed in that. He wasn't playing a character. If you're going to count that as a film appearance you might as well count all his TV interviews as well.

[SoMissTV]

He was interviewed in that. He wasn't playing a character.

He appeared on film in a movie theatre. It is what it is.

[Conveyor Belt]

Heston's last film appearance was in Michael Moore's Bowling for Columbine.

According to IMDB, Heston's last film was My Father, Rua Alguem 5555. Bowling for Columbine was released in 2002... which would not make it his last film appearance.

[SoMissTV]

Well, there you go.

[chaz]

Refresh my memory....I don't recall making a joke about a rape....unless it involved CB and a dolphin or dollfus and Ann Coulter/Greta Van Sustren....

On the Rikki Rocket thread... "Every rose has it's thorn"

Again, I thought it, but didn't want to say it, thinking it would get me groaned

[Conveyor Belt]

On the Rikki Rocket thread... "Every rose has it's thorn"

Again, I thought it, but didn't want to say it, thinking it would get me groaned

I don't see how that's a joke about rape... it's a joke about the song saying that Rocket seemed like an okay guy (good=rose) but he might have raped someone (bad=thorn). Maybe I missed it...

[dollfus46]

I'd lay you ten dollars in Monopoly money to a dime odds that if Jane Fonda croaked, or Barbra Streisand, or Sean Penn, or any number of outspoken "liberal" actors in Hollywood, the inappropriate, unseemly Saying Bad Things About The Dead would explode on this site.
Oh, In that case, I guess you're justified.:smt105

[TheKing]

lol... this whole thread got really silly really quick

[SueScribe]

Oh, In that case, I guess you're justified.:smt105

"It's not revenge [or justification] ah'm aftah. It's a reckoning."

(Val Kilmer as Doc Holliday, Tombstone)

:attack:

[58ford]

I have an autographed picture of him.

[politically incorrect]

I was wondering today when I heard the news just how many people who make a bad joke about prying the gun from his cold, dead, hands. Now I know.

[58ford]

If you'd ever seen the customized Winchester '94 the NRA gave him you'da tried to pry it out of his hands too.

[Fish-Bait]

:exit2:

[firefly]

According to IMDB, Heston's last film was My Father, Rua Alguem 5555. Bowling for Columbine was released in 2002... which would not make it his last film appearance. Thank you, CB! You beat me to it! I was going to post about that being his last film.:clap:

[firefly]

I have an autographed picture of him. I have an autographed photograph of him, too. I also have all of his books & most of them are autographed as well. He was an accomplished author & wrote several excellent books.:smt023

[dollfus46]

I'll echo Stratton and say it was the first thing I thought when I read the headline.

The groans are only there bc SoMiss made the post, no one groaned ES's joke regarding a rape. (Never thought I would be defending SoMiss...)

"To have the right to do a thing is not at all the same as doing it." Same goes for thinking and saying it. When was the last time you thought that was a tacky dress someone had on but kept your mouth shut?

[shultz dooley]

He was one of my hero's growing up, always tough but fair. The movie "The Hawaiians " was on the other night on TCM (Turner classic movies), I guess in remembrance of Chuck, followed by an interview. Great stuff and really a wonderful movie. Here's lookin at you Chuck!

[OGfan]

I wonder if they'll pry that gun from his hands now? (http://hattiesburgamerican.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080405/NEWS01/80405027)

This is not very nice to say about the dead Mister. Show some respect!!!

[lamarrebel]

This is not very nice to say about the dead Mister. Show some respect!!!


If you look at the number of groans at the beginning of this thread, you will see that this point has been registered loud and clear. I had the greatest respect and admiration for Charlton Heston and didn't care for the sarcasm, but it is time to move on.

[dispatch25]

obviously, I never knew him. I respect that he was a champion of the 2nd amendment.

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