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04-06-2008, 08:07 AM
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#1 | | Producer
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| R.I.P Charlton Heston
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.
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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.
Heston revealed in 2002 that he had symptoms consistent with Alzheimer's disease, saying, "I must reconcile courage and surrender in equal measure."
With his large, muscular build, well-boned face and sonorous voice, Heston proved the ideal star during the period when Hollywood was filling movie screens with panoramas depicting the religious and historical past. "I have a face that belongs in another century," he often remarked.
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04-06-2008, 11:04 AM
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#2 | | R1DB Lifer This is my second home
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04-06-2008, 02:19 PM
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#3 | | R1DB's minion
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| saw this on the news this morning. Sux, he was a bad ass.
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04-07-2008, 10:18 AM
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#4 | | Snickers
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| Whether or not one agrees with his politics, there's no denying his screen power. As a farewell, I watched Ben-Hur yesterday. One helluva movie! | |
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04-10-2008, 07:54 PM
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#5 | | Key Grip
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| R.I.P.
I have done some work with him and he was a GREAT guy. Miss you a lot. R.I.P. | |
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04-11-2008, 06:14 PM
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#6 | | Fish
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| Yeah totally agree. Massive screen presence. Just hope people will remember him for his films and not the gun politics. | |
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04-12-2008, 12:00 PM
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| I wonder because he was in a huge biblical film, if that gets him a free pass into the pearly gates? and if so will he enter guns a shootin' | |
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04-12-2008, 05:44 PM
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#8 | | wannabe
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| meh. i think his views on gun laws are a little bogus. the week after columbine he marched in there for a pro gun rally which i thought was pretty disrespectful when this country OBVIOUSLY needs common sense gun laws... | |
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