kip_w ([info]kip_w) wrote,
@ 2008-04-06 12:52:00
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those dam' dirty apes have won
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Charlton Heston made some good movies. They'll be burying him just as soon as they can pry the rifle loose.
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[info]richardthe23rd
2008-04-06 05:31 pm UTC (link)
Two of my favorite roles of his were two of his smallest: as Richelieu in The Three & Four Musketeers, and as a robust John the Baptist in The Greatest Story Ever Told. But he also has a great moment in The Greatest Show on Earth, where even as he's about to swoon from loss of blood he's still barking orders to the crew trying to recover from the wreck of a circus train, and utters a petulant "And where's my hat?" just before passing out.

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[info]kip_w
2008-04-06 07:30 pm UTC (link)
I like The Greatest Show on Eath, and A Touch of Evil. The latter was kind of great almost in spite of the miscasting of Heston. His acting was good enough, but he just didn't look the part. I was saying elsewhere, it's too bad they couldn't have given the part to a deserving Mexican actor.

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[info]sarah_ovenall
2008-04-07 01:53 am UTC (link)
I played a clip from The Greatest Show On Earth on my radio show today.

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[info]asimovberlioz
2008-04-06 06:20 pm UTC (link)
I was thinking of making a post along those lines, but couldn't think of a way to do it tactfully.

Ironically, I cannot imagine that any sane caretaker would have allowed him to hold a rifle (except for carefully cleaned and with the action removed) in the last stages of Alzheimer's.

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[info]kip_w
2008-04-06 07:28 pm UTC (link)
Well, if I'd waited until I thought of a way to do it tactfully, somebody else would have done it first. And, for all I know, they have.

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[info]shelleybear
2008-04-06 06:21 pm UTC (link)
They'll be burying him just as soon as they can pry the rifle loose.


*sputter*
*GIGGLE*

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