News Item: Charlton Heston dies at 84
I prefer to remember Heston more for his classic early Hollywood work, especially "The Ten Commandments," "Planet of the Apes" and "Ben Hur," then for the cockamamie political crusades of his later years, best highlighted by his senile interview with Michael Moore in "Bowling For Columbine" (which actually made Moore look worse than Heston) and gun-nut roles in shitty movies like Tim Burton's POTA remake and Warren Beatty's "Town and Country."
My one brush with Heston was, of course, his visit to Brandeis in 2000 (my senior year), one of those many "controversial speaker" episodes which always led to nothing controversial at all. All I remember is that the speech was sponsored by the campus Republican club, which gave so many invitations to "VIPs" that most students were shut out- so my friends and I snuck in through the kitchen. When I mentioned this in passing, at the gym the next day, to a member of the GOP club, a press release went out two hours later about the security breach.
I leave you with Heston's cameo from "Wayne's World":
Posted by Stephen Silver at April 6, 2008 10:09 PMThat's Wayne's World 2, of course -- huge difference!
Posted by: BZ at April 8, 2008 08:13 AM