Whew....

Planet of the Apes is TRULY one of my favorite films, I watch it tonight in Charlton Heston's honor.

RIP

By far, my Dad's favorite actor.

"When I signal you to come, you come. When I signal you to charge, you charge. When I signal you to retreat, you follow me and run like hell."

In later years I enjoyed some of his supporting/cameo roles in True Lies and Tombstone.

And whoever said that politics should be left out of it is right. The fact that Mr. Heston, a conservative as I am as well, is gone is the story that matters here.

Oh, and please: could all the trolls (both left and right) keep political issues - unless they are of the informative nature, like mostholy and co. provided - out of the obituary? This is a blatant display of disrepect and insecurity. And that comes from a bona fide liberal who admires the ACTOR enough to use one of his roles as a screen name.

Meanwhile, I know people who will never, ever watch "Sicko", even though it's relevant to all Americans and doesn't push a liberal agenda. They hate Moore and his political leanings SO MUCH that they can't even listen to him when he says, "Hey. This hurts ALL of us, liberals and conservatives alike."

Spite like that is why things never get fixed. One side is willing to agree to disagree and work together, and the other spits on our shoes and swears at us.

Charlton Heston was not a man I'd want to be friends with, but he was a master of his craft and we all owe his memory some respect, no matter what our political, religious, or social background.

"Thanks to this Soylent White, we have all the paper we'll ever need." "Soylent White is people! It's peopllllllllllllllllllllllle!"

nuff said

But I question what made someone who was a Civil rights activist, defender of the lil' guy into this arrogant Ultra con? Cynicism? Reaganism? A new found perspective on society? however, I go back and forth on the NRA. Yes, any decent citizen should have the right to protect him/herself, but the question of small arms being in the hands of some unruly bastards like those sick fuckers Kliebold and harris (rot and hell and drown in maggots, bitches.)or children who mistake guns as toys?

Chuck trashed rapper Ice-T for his controversial thrash metal song;Cop Killer (which was really an anti police brutality song and not calling for the death of all Police officers..just the bad ones.oops!)Ice T then said, he would like to rip his head off.

As for Moore's ambush, well it's guerella documentary at it's finest,I don't condone what Moore did, but i understand how he had to get the message through to the viewers.When moore questioned Chuckie about his stance on the NRA,Heston muttered something (if I recall)about certain "people' who are a trheat to this nation (minorities) Man Chuck have ye changed, just like Reagan who as a young adult during the segragation era had invited Blacks to stay at his house and have breakfast the next morning, only to evolve into the pennicle of conservatism, who fucked over the poor and opressed.

Thanks for the Memories Chuck, but look at how the legacy of conservatism has done to this Country, i hope you realized it was all for naught before you passed. R.I.P.

He was one of the greats of the silver screen and he's gone to that great Planet of the Apes in the sky ... wait ... Statue of Liberty? ... that was *our* planet! You blew it up! Damn you! Damn you all to hell!

p.s. godspeed, good sir.

Rest in peace Chuck, and thanks for all the memories and entertainment over the years.

He worked on television and in films regularly after that. Career highlights include "The Greatest Show On Earth" (1952), "Pony Express" (1953), "The Ten Commandments" (1955 - he played Moses), Orson Welle's "Touch of Evil" (1958), the lead in "Ben Hur" (1959 - for which he won his only Oscar nomination), El Cid (1961), "The Greatest Story Ever Told" (1965), "The Agony and The Ecstacy" (1965) "The Planet Of The Apes" (1968 - and sequels), the title role in "Will Penny" 1968). He played the role of Marc Antony yet again in a 1970 version of Julius Caesar.

He was the lead in "The Omega Man" (1971 - recently remade as "I Am Legend" with Will Smith), Antony yet again in "Antony and Cleopatra" (1972) "Skyjacked" (1972), "Soylent Green" (1973), "Airport '75" (1974), "Earthquake" (1974), "Midway" (1976), "Two Minute Warning" (1976) and "Grey Lady Down" (1978).

He returned to television in 1985 to appear as family patriarch Jason Colby in the "Dynasty" spin-off "The Colbys". He appeared in a TV remake of "A Man For All Seasons" in 1988. He guest hosted Saturday Night Live in 1987 and again in 1993, the year he appeared in the SNL spin-off movie "Wayne's World II".

He was in "Tombstone" 91993), bossed Arnold Schwarzenegger in "True Lies" (1994), narrated "Armageddon" (1998), was in "Any Given Sunday" (1999), did animation voice work for "Cats & Dogs" (2001) and had a cameo in the 2001 remake of "Planet Of The Apes".

A couple of his best known film quotes are "Get your hands off me, you damn dirty ape!" and "It's people - Soylent Green is people!"

In addition to his over-a-half century long acting career, Charlton Heston served his country in the Air Force during World War Two, marched with Martin Luther King during the civil rights movement in the early '60s and served as president of the National Rifle Association as an outspoken advocate for the right to bear arms from 1998 to 2002.

By Hollywood standards perhaps his most remarkable achievement was that he remained married to the same woman for 64 years. He was a loving husband, father and grandfather.

Of course, in his films he parted the Red Sea, painted the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel and was the last living man on Earth.

Charlton Heston passed away Saturday in Beverly Hills at the age of 84 of unspecified causes after years of struggling with Alzheimer's Disease.

You aren't going to hear about too many mass school, mall, or workplace stabbings, or baseball bat assaults, because after the first one or two, people would take them down. And a person is going to get really tired after bludgeoning the first couple of people to death with a baseball bat. They would have to sit down and take a breather.

Kudos, you dickwad, kudos.

My favorites are TOUCH OF EVIL, BEN HUR, EL CID, PLANET OF THE APES, HAMLET(Kenneth Branagh version - He was memorable as the Player King).

/// “A well regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed///

Free State means free from all tyrants- most of whom were internal in the days this was written (The people who wrote this came from England after centuries of various internal tyranny over there- maybe you’ve read about it). But more to the point the RIGHT is CLEAR to anyone with 9th grade level of reading comprehension- The right of WHO to keep and bear arms Shall not be infringed???? Uh the People- this is not a States right-the State is not even referenced in the sentence that grants the right. Indeed NONE of the Bill of rights Amendments are States rights – except # 10 which is a right of both State and Citizen.

I won’t get started on “the Supreme court” which is often a body that rules based on politics due to who put them there and quite often makes one wonder if they can even read English with some of their amazingly unconstitutional Re-writings of the constitution Oh Er I mean their “ Judicial interpretations” of said document. Case in point They actually interpreted the first amendment to MEAN the EXACT OPPOSITE of what it ACTUALLY SAYS…but that’s another discussion).

(I wont get started on Iraq because you apparently need a complete history lesson on diplomacy with dictators in general and that situation in particular…and I’m not getting paid to start that class…(Though I will note that “W” has run the War as stupidly as the Libs ran Nam- but he does quite a few things that are clueless as well – the only funny thing is that you guys hate him so much- cause he really isn’t all that conservative except on a couple issues.)

Oh- and RIP Charles