Charlton Heston is dead...

[chrishansenhome]

...and as someone (no doubt, many millions of people) has pointed out, one can now pry the gun out of his cold dead hands. The greatness of his acting has of late been eclipsed by his advocacy of the National Rifle Association.

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[ex-serenejo.livejournal.com]

Oh, whew.

I confess I liked him in Ben Hur, but I'm not sure how much of that was him, and how much was just that I loved that film when I was in my teens.

And of course Soylent Green was just painful.

[hickbear.livejournal.com]

For me, the most painful part of Soylent Green was that it was the last film of Edward G. Robinson. What an incredible waste of talent...