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One of our greatest Americans passed. Charlton Heston. Words cannot say how great this man was. A true American Hero, standing now, beside Ronald Reagan, Bob Hope, John Wayne. He will be missed, by true conservative Americans. God Speed, Chuck!

I can't believe nobody gives a crap about Charleton Heston! I want to know when and who, someone prys the gun from his cold dead fingers!

yep, it's strange to see that nobody seems to be interested in Charlton Heston's death on this US forum!

We've talked a lot about him on my favourite French forum (antique guns collectors and shooters). Of course not everybody agreed with everything in Mr Heston's opinions but almost all of us regretted the defender of the firearms and of course the great actor

Well, I was going to make the crack about how I guess someone can now pry the gun out of his cold, dead hands, but I thought that would come off sounding a bit disrespectful. But DangerousDave broke the seal on that one so there you go.

You have to admire Charlton Heston for his stance on gun control - he definitely stood up for what he believed in and that's no easy thing to do when you're a conservative in Hollywood with all their screaming liberals.

Two Heston moments stand out for me (besides the obvious Ben Hur/Ten Commandments movies):

"Bowling for Columbine" - when the jackass Michael Moore ambushes Charlton at his home - that was really disgraceful on Moore's part.

and

"The Omega Man" - did anyone else see this? It's one of the two movies the recent "I Am Legend" was based on. Actually, I Am Legend was a lot closer to "The Omega Man" than it was to the original movie "The Last Man On Earth" (with Vincent Price). After I saw I Am Legend in the theater, I tracked down these other two movies just a couple of months ago and watched them.


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I've just found this thread. Rest assured Mr Heston's passing was mourned outside the USA. A fine and principled man whose immortality is assured.

I came across a very thoughtful blog post:

Not very many people will remember that Charlton Heston picketed a segregated theater premiering his own movie; or that he accompanied Martin Luther King Jr on the 1963 Civil Rights March on Washington. All at a time when no one in Hollywood was willing to speak out against racism. It's more likely that he'll be remembered as the six foot three inch tall actor, who played Moses and Ben Hur, and later became the president and spokesman for the National Rifle Association advocating the right to keep and bear arms; or recall that he opposed affirmative action. But Heston the marcher and Heston the NRA president come closer together if one recalls that in the actor's mind at least, racial segregation helped the cause of Communism. The fight for freedom took many forms, but underneath its varied guises it was always the same thing.

Read it all at: http://fallbackbelmont.blogspot.com/200 ... ehave.html

You know, Kman, I never really thought about this aspect before. I have an old VHS of both Soylent Green and The Omega Man. In both movies, Heston was hot for, African-American ladies. He actually nailed the lady in Omega Man. In Soylent Green, the actor, Chuck Conners, was living with an African-American lady.

Soylent Green, Omega Man and Planet of the Apes were all great movies!

Yeah its a pity that most people now will associate Chilla with the NRA thing, forgetting his huge movie career and as for his support of civil Rights, I never knew that.

Oh well, who cares about skin color. "Sink the Pink".