Charlton Heston dies

To save everyone the trouble of checking IBDB, here are Charlton Heston's Broadway credits:

1947-48: Played Proculeius in a production of Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra at the Martin Beck. Katharine Cornell played Cleopatra, and Godfrey Tearle played Antony. Eli Wallach was also in that production, as Diomedes. Ran for 126 performances.

1949: Appeared in an original play called Leaf and Bough by Joseph Hayes, which ran for three performances at the Cort. I know nothing about this play, and IBDB credits the cast alphabetically, so I don't know if Heston was a lead or not. Heston's character was named Glenn Campbell. In light of the subsequent celebrity of someone else named Glenn Campbell, you can now amaze your friends by telling them "Charlton Heston once played Glenn Campbell," and then watching their brains lock up as they try to imagine Charlton Heston, guitar in hand, singing "Rhinestone Cowboy."

1950: Appeared in Design for a Stained Glass Window, an original play William Berney and Howard Richardson, which ran for eight performances at the Mansfield Theater (now the Brooks Atkinson). Again, I know nothing about this show. His perfromance in this one won him a Theatre World award.

1960: The only time he appeared on Broadway after his breakthrough screen perfromance in The Ten Commandments was in an original play at the Helen Hayes written by Benn W. Levy, called The Tumbler. Heston headed a cast of five, which also included Rosemary Harris, Donald Moffatt, and Martha Scott. Laurence Olivier directed. It ran for only five performances.

A great loss. We will never see his equal.

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He and his wife also started a theatre in North Carolina before he became famous.

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Go to the off topic board & read Liverpools comments . Real compassionate chap our Liverpool.

Heston was a giant . I cannot say I have ever disliked any of his films. Some films were bearable because he was in them. One wonders what some films might have been had he played in them such as the Stephen Boyd role in Fall Of The Roman Empire which he turned down.

A great loss.

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"he was an idiot and a bigot

good riddance to bad rubbish


but then roxy, i guess that explains why you love him so much, you too have so much in common"


Regardless of Heston's homophobia/bigotry, what a thoroughly unpleasant thing to say in the light of his death. Then again ugly chubs can be rather vitriolic - some form of defense mechanism perhaps.

no-one is expecting your (or anyone's) praise of him as an actor Liverpool. You merely saw this as an opportunity for yet another stab. The thing that grown ups do is remain silent when they have nothing to add in what I think was meant to be a genuine thread about the loss of someone.

Updated On: 4/6/08 at 10:55 AM

yes yes yes you made your "attempt" at making a point earlier. Now go back before your donuts get stale and let those who do have something to contribute in the spirit of this thread do so.

Ooh fat jokes, how original and well thought out. Go back to the pit you crawled out of. The world was a little bit better for those 3 months you didn't post.

songanddanceman,


I am glad that you pointed this out. I'm a bit ashamed to say that I first heard the news last night on perezhilton.com (Hey, it can sometimes be entertaining when I'm bored on the internet), and I couldn't help but be a bit surprised when he (Who is an out and proud gay man) seemed so remorseful. I understand that death is always a tragedy, especially after having the affliction he did (a good friend of mine recently passed after her own battle). But what he did in terms of his anti-gay and pro-violence, pro-gun agenda was simply a tragedy in and of itself. He was the one who showed up after each and every school shooting (He came to Littleton, CO at the time of the Columbine students' funerals) and rallied in defense of guns. That, I feel, next to an act like "Rev." Phelps going to Matthew Shepard's funeral-and many others to this day- was one of the most disgusting public acts I had ever heard of.

However, with that being sad, I can only hope that he will be remembered for the positive contributions he made, including his film and stage work. That, I feel, should be remembered and appreciated.

Every time you open your mouth Liver, you continue to put your foot into it. Way to go Liver

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I have no positive feelings whatsoever towards Heston because of his dangerously homophobic views in the past but my thoughts are with his family. But equally I am not going to slag him off for the sake of it as it serves nothing.

I felt the same when Reagan died and for much the same reasons - ie) no feelings at all of sadness for his passing just for those closest to him. When Thatcher goes I know I will not be alone in lacking sadness then too for the nastiness she did when she had power - Clause 28 etc etc etc.

I have always been repulsed by liver.

I could never figure out why.

Until now.

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