Charlton Heston: (At a National Rifles Association meeting) I have only five words for you: FROM MY COLD DEAD HANDS!
The central villain in Michael Moore's documentary (Bowling for Columbine), Charlton Heston, has died at the age of 84. Personally I formed the opinion (thanks to Moore's movie) that for all Heston's acclaim, he was something of a crappy human being. Basically his idea of having a good time was shooting things, and teaching and telling others how to do the same. This also exposed America's white trashy gun culture. This gun love may work in cowboy movies, but in the real world, people die. And often when a gun lives in a family, the victims are women and children. My mom killed herself with a gun that my father owned. One wonders what would have happened if firearms were banned (any sane population would know to do this), but the likes of Heston and his ilk have made this a difficult goal in America.
Nowhere else was the insanity of Heston's America more lucidly exposed than when a maniacally smiling Heston appears next to a headline about an American serial sniper: Charlton Heston And the Sniper. America (and its hero) didn't learn its lesson then. And it seems the lessons from Iraq are not sinking in either. - NVDL
Are we a nation of gun nuts or are we just nuts? - tagline from Michael Moore's Bowling For Columbine, featuring a Charlton Heston (in hide and seek me, as opposed to seek and destroy mode)
LOS ANGELES - Charlton Heston, who won the 1959 best actor Oscar as the chariot-racing "Ben-Hur" and portrayed Moses, Michelangelo, El Cid and other heroic figures in movie epics of the '50s and '60s, has died. He was 84.
The actor died Saturday night at his home in Beverly Hills with his wife Lydia at his side, family spokesman Bill Powers said.
Powers declined to comment on the cause of death or provide further details.
"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," Heston's family said in a statement. "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."
Heston revealed in 2002 that he had symptoms consistent with Alzheimer's disease, saying, "I must reconcile courage and surrender in equal measure."
For the rest of this article by BOB THOMAS, Associated Press Writer, go here.
2 comments:
Agree wholeheartedly. I also feel for you - my brother was accidentally shot and killed by his friend who thought the gun was not loaded.
Tragic. And the worst are these family murders, where, in a fit of passion, usuualy the father, murders his children and wife before killing himself. You'd have to wonder how that could be possible without guns in the home.
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