Charlton Heston dies — Page 3

Bang Bang he's dead. Nobody could hear a single word of his performance at London's Queens Theatre in 'The Caine Mutiny Court Marshall' a few years back because he had no interest in what he was doing on stage. A dreadful performance!
Did he really make that many great movies besides the obvious?

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I'm sorry for the mourning his family is going through...

But put me in the camp that thinks that just because someone was a good actor, we should not glorify him if his public and political life was full of such vileness. He went to towns right after school-shootings happened there, on multiple occasions, to hold huge pro-gun rallies. No matter your stance on gun laws, that is despicable.

Again, he was a good, sometimes great, actor. But that doesn't excuse his actions.

I'm sorry for his family, though. And I will show him more respect at this time than the respect he showed to the victims and families and communities that he devastated with his rallies in the midst of their mourning.

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Updated On: 4/6/08 at 02:45 PM

I always knew he was a republican but I didn't know he was anti-gay. And frankly, I think holding a pro-gun rally in Columbine was just downright stupid and insensitive.

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I hate the man; dead or alive.

So he has alzheimers and access to his gun collection? Lovely/

I also remember his ignorant statements on gun control and gay rights. He was a bastard.

Moses is dead?!?!

RIP.

Perhaps.

I have respect for the dead no matter who it is.

Updated On: 4/6/08 at 08:04 PM

So now Heston was Hitler. Kind of stretching it a bit wouldn't you say?

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The man made mistakes. As someone very famous once said "Let he who is without sin cast the first stone"

He started out as a liberal & changed his view over the years. Maybe his early years changed him.

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I'm going to try to get through this without crying.

Both my parents had Alzheimer's. My dad just died of it and my mother is doing so now.

They were the most liberal of people when I grew up. Hell, the took me to New York every years to see all the shows. They worked in theater.

But something happened to my dad back in 1994. He changed. He darkened. His character did a 180. He basically became Bill O'Reilly. It was creepy and frightening.

I'm not saying this is what happened to Heston per say. Yet.....

Here was a man who marched in civil rights rallies and had loads of liberal friends. Everyone who met him says he was always polite to a fault and very compassionate. Even in the height of his weakness, he came down to the gate and spoke to Michael Moore, who proceeded to b**tf**k him nationally for no reason other than a cocky "I got Ya!!!!"

In older age - and assuming the same timeframe as my father's progress of the illness - maybe there is something there we should consider.

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Ha ha. Mr. Roxy, it's "scum" not "scume." Scume sounds like something they put on top of your desert in a European restaurante.

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Thanks, Miss Pennywise. It has been a sad time for the last few years. The saddest part is that my parents supported and financed me for ages when I was a kid/young adult in my budding career in musical theatre as a nascent director/producer, then I up and became an artist, then set designer, then writer, but no musicals. And musical theatre was the backbone of our family, my parent's profession and their great love.

When I went out to Hollywood, they came out to visit a few times, see the Tonight Show, Arsenio, etc., dine at the studio commissaries, but my dad always said "When are you going to do another show?"

He passed away after a ten year battle with Alzheimer's just as I was starting to work on a Broadway show. I knew that would happen.

And now, I have not one but two shows underway and I can't tell you what I would give to tell the old man all about it.

Sucks. Really sucks.

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