time to pry his rifle

[RuMR]

from his cold dead hands

[TREETOAD]

no shit...about time too

[Fairweather]

no shit...about time too

 

Such nice sentiments coming from someone who doesn't know shit about the man.

 

Good journey, Chuck. You'll be missed.

[olyclimber]

i liked that movie he was in about the apes. i think that is reason enough to buy a gun. the apes.

[olyclimber]

Damn you all to hell!

 

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[Fairweather]

I just think it's funny that the usual suspects who beat their chests about peace-and-love-and-all-that are almost always the first ones to jump up on the casket and dance--or piss on the grave. I suppose that's why no one believes the shit they're trying to sell. Irreverent morons.

[KaskadskyjKozak]

no shit...about time too

 

Such nice sentiments coming from someone who doesn't know shit about the man.

 

Good journey, Chuck. You'll be missed.

 

More love from the left. Someone dies with whom they disagreed, and it's time to dance on the grave, and sling shit.

 

[KaskadskyjKozak]

I just think it's funny that the usual suspects who beat their chests about peace-and-love-and-all-that are almost always the first ones to jump up on the casket and dance, or piss on the grave. I suppose that's why no one believes the shit they're trying to sell. Irreverent morons.

 

i rented Ben Hur recently as part of my Netflix queue. I had never seen it and always meant to. Another classic with Chuck.

 

 

[olyclimber]

no shit...about time too

 

Such nice sentiments coming from someone who doesn't know shit about the man.

 

Good journey, Chuck. You'll be missed.

 

More love from the left. Someone dies with whom they disagreed, and it's time to dance on the grave, and sling shit.

 

if you think the "left" has monopoly on this you are sadly mistaken. but this thread isn't about that. its about an american icon, Charleton Heston.

 

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[olyclimber]

take your stinking paws off me you damn dirty ape

 

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[dmuja]

 

..it's made from people!

 

SOYLENT GREEN IS MADE FROM PEOPLE!!!

[olyclimber]

8Sp-VFBbjpE now that one had a profound affect on me

[olyclimber]

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[Dechristo]

The Big Country.

 

 

Heston and Gregory Peck duke it out.

[ivan]

no shit...about time too

 

Such nice sentiments coming from someone who doesn't know shit about the man.

 

Good journey, Chuck. You'll be missed.

 

More love from the left. Someone dies with whom they disagreed, and it's time to dance on the grave, and sling shit.

hey, us lefties don't believe in jeebus, so why should we respect the dead?

[archenemy]

He stood for many civil rights and never backed down. I think he is/was a quintessential American.

[Hendershot]

He was a bad ass, no doubt. You know he wanted to bitch slap Michael Moore during the Bowling for Columbine interview.

[ivan]

it was hard not to like ole'charlie - as a kid i really dug on the movie version he starred in of the short story "leinigen versus the ants" as well as the super-sweet "omega man"

[tvashtarkatena]

He stood for many civil rights and never backed down. I think he is/was a quintessential American.

 

As if there was such a thing.

[archenemy]

Even if we were all "individuals" then being individual would be typical.

[ivan]

Wikipedia's entry on Heston's:

 

Political activism

 

Charlton Heston (left) with Marlon Brando, James Baldwin, and Harry Belafonte at Civil Rights March 1963.

Heston with United States President Ronald Reagan during a meeting for the Presidential Task Force on the Arts and Humanities in the White House Cabinet Room, 1981.Heston campaigned for Presidential candidate Adlai Stevenson in 1956 and John F. Kennedy in 1960.[11] When an Oklahoma movie theater premiering his movie was segregated, he joined a picket line outside in 1961.[12] During the civil rights march held in Washington, D.C. in 1963, he accompanied Martin Luther King Jr. In later speeches, Heston said he helped the civil rights cause, "long before Hollywood found it fashionable."[13]

 

Following the assassination of Senator Robert F. Kennedy in 1968, Heston and actors Gregory Peck, Kirk Douglas and James Stewart issued a statement calling for support of President Johnson's Gun Control Act of 1968.[14][15] He opposed the Vietnam War and said he voted for Richard Nixon in 1972.[16]

 

By the 1980s, Heston opposed affirmative action, supported gun rights and changed his political affiliation from Democratic to Republican.[17] He campaigned for Republicans and Republican Presidents Ronald Reagan,[18] George H. W. Bush and George W. Bush.[19]

 

Heston resigned from Actors Equity, claiming the union's refusal to allow a white actor to play a Eurasian role in "Miss Saigon" was "obscenely racist."[20] He said CNN's telecasts from Baghdad were "sowing doubts" about the allied effort in the 1990-91 Gulf War.[20]

 

At a Time Warner stockholders meeting, he castigated the company for releasing an Ice-T album which included the song "Cop Killer", which depicted the killing of police officers.[21]

 

According to his autobiography In the Arena, Heston recognized the right of freedom of speech exercised by others. In a 1997 speech, he rhetorically deplored a culture war he said was being conducted by a generation of media, educators, entertainers, and politicians against:

 

"...the God fearing, law-abiding, Caucasian, middle- class Protestant-or even worse, evangelical Christian, Midwestern or Southern- or even worse, rural, apparently straight-or even worse, admitted heterosexuals, gun-owning-or even worse, NRA-card-carrying, average working stiff-or even worse, male working stiff-because, not only don’t you count, you are a down-right obstacle to social progress. Your voice deserves a lower decibel level, your opinion is less enlightened, your media access is insignificant, and frankly, mister, you need to wake up, wise up, and learn a little something from your new-America and until you do, would you mind shutting up?"[22]

 

In an address to students at Harvard Law School entitled Winning the Cultural War, Heston said, "If Americans believed in political correctness, we'd still be King George's boys - subjects bound to the British crown."[23] He went on:

 

"The Constitution was handed down to guide us by a bunch of wise old dead white guys who invented our country! Now some flinch when I say that. Why! Its true-they were white guys! So were most of the guys that died in Lincoln’s name opposing slavery in the 1860s. So why should I be ashamed of white guys? Why is “Hispanic Pride” or “Black Pride” a good thing, while “White Pride” conjures shaven heads and white hoods? Why was the Million Man March on Washington celebrated by many as progress, while the Promise Keepers March on Washington was greeted with suspicion and ridicule? I’ll tell you why, Cultural warfare!"

 

He later stated, "Political correctness is tyranny with manners."[24]

 

 

Heston accepting a presentation rifle at 2000 NRA convention with the now well-known exclamation "From my cold, dead hands!"Heston was the president and spokesman of the NRA from 1998 until he resigned in 2003. At the 2000 NRA convention, he raised a rifle over his head and declared that a potential Al Gore administration would take away his Second Amendment rights "from my cold, dead hands."[25] In announcing his resignation in 2003, he again raised a rifle over his head, repeating the five famous words of his 2000 speech.[26] He was an honorary life member.[26]

 

In the 2002 documentary film Bowling for Columbine, Michael Moore interviewed Heston in his home, asking him about an April 1999 NRA meeting held shortly after the Columbine high school massacre, in Denver, Colorado. Moore criticized Heston for the perceived thoughtlessness in the timing and location of the meeting. Heston, on-camera, excused himself and walked out. Moore was later criticized for his perceived ambush.[27][28][29]

 

Actor George Clooney joked about Heston's failing health at a 2003 National Board of Review award ceremony, saying that Heston "announced again today that he is suffering from Alzheimer's." When questioned, Clooney said Heston deserved whatever was said about him for his involvement with the NRA.[30] Heston responded by saying Clooney lacked class, and said he felt sorry for Clooney, as Clooney had as much of a chance of developing Alzheimer's as anyone else.[31]

 

Heston opposed abortion and gave the introduction to a 1987 pro-life documentary by Bernard Nathanson called Eclipse of Reason which focuses on late-term abortions. Heston served on the Advisory Board of Accuracy in Media, a conservative media watchdog group founded by Reed Irvine.[32]

 

[Hugh Conway]

He stood for many civil rights and never backed down.

 

He did. Then he got old and started hanging out with the White Citizens Council

[tvashtarkatena]

Alzheimer's. His later activism was just his way to do more with less.

[archenemy]

I don't know any men who don't get more conservative with age.

 

Heston never backed down from his beliefs, even as they changed. I know everyone loves to expect people to always stand for the same things their whole lives, but people just aren't like that. They change over time. One thing that didn't change about him is that he always spoke clearly about what he thought was right. I don't know many people like that.

[Hugh Conway]

I don't know any men who don't get more conservative with age.

 

Heston never backed down from his beliefs, even as they changed. I know everyone loves to expect people to always stand for the same things their whole lives, but people just aren't like that. They change over time. One thing that didn't change about him is that he always spoke clearly about what he thought was right. I don't know many people like that.

 

so it's ok to get racist as you age? how about sexist?